Book Blurb:
London Gardella is running; broken, bruised, and desperate for safety. When she arrives in New York City, she’s clinging to the last hope she has left; finding sanctuary with a stranger who wants nothing to do with her.
Archer Sin is a reclusive billionaire hacker—tattooed, brooding, and razor-sharp— he thrives in the shadows. He reluctantly agrees to keep her safe, but only if she follows his two rules:
No touching his computers.
No falling in love.
Archer’s inked fingers rarely leave his keyboards, but his eyes never stop watching London… stalking her every move, sparking a fire neither can ignore. Then comes a reckless, forbidden kiss.
Rules shatter. Walls crumble. Desire ignites.
Trust is a risk neither can afford, but survival means facing the truth: sometimes, the safest haven is the most dangerous place of all.
Tropes:
*Netgalley ALC *Dark Romance *Billionaire Romance *starting over *Feisty FMC
*Reclusive MMC *Mafia *touch her and 💀 *enemies --> more *on the run *forced proximity
*Obsessive MMC *Posessive MMC *spice *Found Family *Trigger warnings (check them)
*miscommunication/no communication *State Challenge New York (repeat) *Morally grey MMC
Thoughts:
London (FMC) is on the run from her old life she is in her early 20s and has had a really hard life with her father who used and abused her, even though he has passed away she is still not safe because he decided to arrange a marriage with a man just as bad as he is... she can't do this, thankfully she was able to get some help starting a new life with just an address to go to she shows up at a strangers apartment looking for a safe haven.
Archer (MMC) is handsome, intelligent, and reclusive since the loss of the love of his life a few years earlier he has been a shell of a man just going through the motions but not truly living. He really doesn't leave his home but can do everything he needs for his job from home, he and his family are in organized crime... but he wants out of that life and has made it known that he's doing the bare minimum... from home. So when he gets a surprise on his doorstep in the form of an injured woman he doesn't know what to think.
Archer at first doesn't want London staying with him she has trouble written all over her, but after talking with their mutual aquaintance he agrees to keep her safe for now... what starts out as generally want to protect her turns into a bit of an obsession next thing he knows he is watching her every movement when she leaves their shared apartment and showing up where she is when she doesn't expect him.
London and Archer clash often and have a bit of a love-hate tension that simmers forever until it boils over and then it's fireworks.
Archer's family (his sister and brothers) are all dangerous but you can see the love that they have for each other... even when they are clashing. It was also nice to see London make a true friend for possibly the first time in her life.
Archer finally feels alive with this tornado that has come into rock his world... but they both have their secrets and one that London is keeping could wreck everything that they have been building over the past few months.
The narrators did a great job and it was easy to be swept away in this story it was action packed, there were secrets revealed, tension and so much drama! I'm looking forward to reading more in this series.
Some negatives for this book:
London- was young and her attitude was attituding... she shows up on a strangers door step and instead of being thankful she's fairly rude to Archer, you have no where else to go girl why are you being so rude to this man who is trying to help you?
London and Archer were both giving each other mixed signals, it got repetitive after awhile Archer made a rule for London not to fall in love with him if she were going to stay with him... but then he is helping her wash and braid her hair, monitoring her at all times on his computer, and crashing her dates with other guys... like you can't be a no one else can have you guy when you said you didn't want her!
When Archer and his family got together it felt like the group was a lot younger just due to the arguments they would end up getting into.
There wasn't too much world building people were mentioned like we should already know them, I wonder if there is another series that should be read first before reading this series (?)
Miscommunication/no communication --> some things happen and instead of letting London tell her side of the story Archer cuts her off and says he never wants to see her again... don't you want to hear what she has to say??... later this happens again.
Archer --> sweet for her at times, but also anger management issues with her occasionally... definately a hot head leading to multiple break ups & make ups
Have you read this one? What did you think?
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