Physically, I finished the book a few days ago. Emotionally, I'm still there, in Harrowdean, along with Ripley, Raine, Xander and Lennox. I experience their horrors with them, I worry about them, I'm scared all the time from what can happen. I don't stop thinking about them. And this only convinces me more and more that "Sin Like The Devil" is perfection - a rare diamond that I couldn't be more happy to have fallen into my hands. A book as heavy and strong as it is beautiful, making you feel the huge palette of emotions of the characters.

"Maybe we feel empty because we leave pieces of ourselves in everything we used to love."

But let me try to start from the beginning so that you understand where my excitement comes from.

From the very first page, while reading the epigraph itself, I knew that this book would be something different. "Sin Like The Devil" doesn't start like any other book. It starts as a documentary that gives you goosebumps with just its first 5 sentences. I am extremely impressed and pleased that finally this kind of atmosphere, this feeling that they evoke, I can experience in a book.

I'm amazed at how quickly the writing style captivated me and how it immediately managed to get me into the story, making me sink completely into it and forget everything else that happens around me, because it's hard for me to be so emotionally and mentally invested in a book. The constant keeping under pressure helps a lot for this, because of the horrors that happen to the characters, because the author is not afraid to hurt them and does not feel sorry for them too much. The extremely ugly, harsh and shockingly terrible things made me not stop thinking about them.

And the characters... They are so complex, so multi-layered and well-built that you can't help but want to know everything about them, you can't help but want to immerse yourself in their mind and get to know them as much as possible. What surprised me a lot, is that each of the men grabbed my interest in a different way and with different qualities, which happens to me for the first time. Usually one of them stands out from the others and I like him the most, but here I just can't choose only one.

Raine, with his sarcasm, self-confidence, vulnerability and desire to fight the situation he is in, is tearing down walls.

For someone who struggles to perceive the world and numbs himself to escape it, he burns so goddamn bright.

Lennox is brute force and deals with his anger issues in very disturbing ways, but at the same time, he makes me admire him for refusing to hide how much he cares about the people he loves and how he tries to do everything in his power for them to be okay.

The man who tried his damndest to kill me is breathing life into my lungs, one kiss at a time. I'm trapped in hell with an enemy, and disaster has never felt so fucking good.

And Xander, who is an absolute psychopath, sadist, cold, isolated and seemingly does not care about anyone or anything, but in fact, after getting to know him, I saw that he is a person who cares very much and who hides behind the mask of coldness because of what happened to him in the past.

I'm where I belong. Sleeping with the devil.

And Ripley...

Survival is a personal thing. Sometimes, it looks a whole lot like self-destruction.

Ripley is strength, struggle, sacrifice and at the same time selfishness in equal amounts at different times. She is fire, storm, emotion, vulnerability, fear, loneliness. And somehow these three manage to love the different qualities in her, bringing out different versions of her, but falling in love with each of them.

We all survive the aftermath of total self-destruction in our own ways.

I adore the scenes between each of them with her, but the ones with Raine have a special place in my heart, as he is the first person who manages to get her walls to fall and makes her show her true self. Then the others make sure that all her walls completely collapse. The relationship between them is so special and full of feelings and emotions that my head spins when I think about it.

That's what love is, right? A mutual agreement to destroy each other.

The climax is extremely tense and exceptionally strong. Enough to keep me on my feet, ready to jump at any moment to an unknown threat or simply because I can't find a place to stay.
The ending is open and given what happens in it, I can't wait for the next book! I hope it comes out faster!
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Rating: 5/5

~~~This book was provided to me by Valentine PR and J Rose for my honest opinion.~~~