Contempt by A. Zavarelli

From USA Today Bestselling Author A. Zavarelli comes an angsty forbidden romance about second chances, forgiveness, and a love that conquers all.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Before the world knew me as a rock god, I was just the angry boy who stole her heart.
She was a good girl.
The forbidden fruit I wasn’t meant to taste.
Our stars were crossed, and fate had doomed us from the start.
She was promised to someone else.
I had her secret smiles.
Moments stolen in dark corners.
But I couldn’t have her future.
Destiny tore us apart, and all that remained was the ghost of her memory.
When she died, I did too.
But when I catch a glimpse of her five years later, alive and well, that love turns to hate as the bitter truth emerges.
She left me.
She lied.
And now, I’m going to make her pay.

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Contempt by A. Zavarelli
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

An epically intense and emotionally draining angst-driven dark romance with incredible character and story development that will capture you from the very beginning, but you might be hard pressed to read this one in one swoop. I forced myself to put this book down on several occasions because the intensity of the story needed to settle in my head, and I honestly just needed a break. Please don’t take that statement in any negative way because it actually is quite the opposite. This wasn’t a surface story at any point. Every single plot-point and circumstance was deeply expanded and developed in such a way that I felt the story deep in my bones. That’s why I had to give myself a break.

I’m not new to the power of Zavarelli’s words and her wizardry when it comes to developing suspenseful and dark romance journeys, but this felt more to me. I don’t exactly know how it was more (which I know sounds ridiculous), I just know that it was. It was so intricately woven between the past and the present to reveal the reason today is the way that it is that I just felt in awe while reading. My brain was trying to process but it couldn’t keep up with the twists and turns and the horrific circumstances from the past and the explosive circumstances of the present. The entire story felt like a ticking timebomb for me, and it was both exhilarating and exhausting (in the best possible way)!

You know the saying ”Love conquers all” … well, this story is going to explain it to you in explicit detail! Your heart is going to hurt badly at some points, and it will soar at others. You’ll be frustrated and exhausted and possibly a little bit traumatized at times. In the end, you are going to root for these two like your life depends on it because they deserve it. Go forth and be amazed!

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A. Zavarelli is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of dark and contemporary romance.

She loves writing about tortured heroes and the strong heroines who love them. When she’s not putting her characters through hell, she can usually be found watching documentaries in the name of research.

She lives in the Northwest with her lumberjack and an entire brood of fur babies.

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