ARC REVIEW ➤ BURN (VIRTUES & LIES #1) BY ALEXANDRA SILVA
TITLE: Burn
SERIES: Virtues & Lies #1
AUTHOR: Alexandra Silva
GENRE: Suspense | Romance
PUBLICATION: August 16th, 2019
Synopsis
One glance across a dim, crowded room. That’s all it took for my life to change.
One moment. One look. One touch. From him…
The man with no name. He is everywhere I go and everywhere I turn. He is in my thoughts and daydreams. He’s a constant want and need I can’t escape.
I don’t want to.
The closer he gets the more I crave him. I crave his intensity and his fire. I crave his biting words and rough touches. He’s unlike anyone I’ve ever known and his touch is unlike anything I’ve ever felt.
He unravels me. My life. Everything I’ve ever known, until all that’s left are secrets that never seem to end.
Until all that’s left is ashes and blood.
Until we burn.
My Review
BURN:
is the first full length romance book by new to me author Alexandra Silva's 'Virtues and Lies' series. In this we meet Leo, Cassie, and our secondary characters Christoffer and Arabella.
God where to start 🤔 this book had so many layers to it, twists and turns, secrets and lies, layers upon layers that needed to be unraveled before we could get to the true essence of the story, which is what I loved the most about this book. Never knowing what was going to come at us next. This did take me a bit to get into, and some scenes didn’t really end before a new scene started up. Hence my 4 stars. But that didn’t take away my enjoyment whilst reading this.
It starts off when a dearly loved family member died within Cassie's family, a shadow of doubt speculating whether the death wasn't by natural causes and from this point onwards you are sitting on tenterhooks as anxiety and situations that arose had you sitting on the edge of your seat awaiting to see which direction the author was going to take you in.
It was round about this time when they first became fixated on each other when their eyes landed on the other amongst a crowded auditorium. But that wasn't the first time Leo had been intrigued with Cassie.
❝ My fascination with her runs deeper than an addiction. She is a high that runs so deep that it's making me crazy. My mind has no anatomy. ❞
From this point onwards they uncanningly seemed to always be bumping into each other. The attraction was instant, you could feel it sizzling off the pages, ready to combust. ❝ The girl is a Buttercup. Beautiful to look at but poisonous when it gets inside you. ❞
I loved our heroine and dirty talking alpha hero Leo, ❝ I can't help but imagine all the ways I want to f#ck her. All the ways I could mark her body as I make it mine. I want to bite her, lick her, kiss her and eat her. I want every part of me inside every part of her.❞ the light to his dark, the terrifying situations they were thrown into, but throughout Leo always protected his buttercup queen. The secondary characters also made an impact and I can’t wait to see where the next book takes us.
* Teaser used is off the authors facebook page *
God where to start 🤔 this book had so many layers to it, twists and turns, secrets and lies, layers upon layers that needed to be unraveled before we could get to the true essence of the story, which is what I loved the most about this book. Never knowing what was going to come at us next. This did take me a bit to get into, and some scenes didn’t really end before a new scene started up. Hence my 4 stars. But that didn’t take away my enjoyment whilst reading this.
It starts off when a dearly loved family member died within Cassie's family, a shadow of doubt speculating whether the death wasn't by natural causes and from this point onwards you are sitting on tenterhooks as anxiety and situations that arose had you sitting on the edge of your seat awaiting to see which direction the author was going to take you in.
It was round about this time when they first became fixated on each other when their eyes landed on the other amongst a crowded auditorium. But that wasn't the first time Leo had been intrigued with Cassie.
❝ My fascination with her runs deeper than an addiction. She is a high that runs so deep that it's making me crazy. My mind has no anatomy. ❞
From this point onwards they uncanningly seemed to always be bumping into each other. The attraction was instant, you could feel it sizzling off the pages, ready to combust. ❝ The girl is a Buttercup. Beautiful to look at but poisonous when it gets inside you. ❞
I loved our heroine and dirty talking alpha hero Leo, ❝ I can't help but imagine all the ways I want to f#ck her. All the ways I could mark her body as I make it mine. I want to bite her, lick her, kiss her and eat her. I want every part of me inside every part of her.❞ the light to his dark, the terrifying situations they were thrown into, but throughout Leo always protected his buttercup queen. The secondary characters also made an impact and I can’t wait to see where the next book takes us.
* Teaser used is off the authors facebook page *
About the Author
Alexandra Silva is a lover of words and romance. She blames the classics and a nutty English teacher for her obsession with books and fiction. Come rain or shine with either coffee or wine in hand you can find her with her nose stuck in a book and her head in the clouds. She lives in London outnumbered by her very loud boys, with her very own hero and their two wild cats—Jack and Jill.
