Unmasked

STILL don't know what to read, but I need a change of pace; so...I decided to get a head start on some Beat the Backlog books. This one was leftover from my October reads last year. It's Mia Monroe's "Unmasked."

["Would winning his heart replace the bitterness in mine?

High school was hell. My peers spent their waking hours tormenting me. My accent, my weight, my lack of social skills, and looks only a mother could love, made me a perpetual target.

Years later, fed up with being the underdog, I took matters into my own hands. My transformation was epic, dare I say, supernatural, and I returned to that town armed with perfect looks, a fat bank account, and enough charm to steal world secrets, but my heart hadn’t changed at all, and it was hungry for revenge. I craved the destruction of my enemies more than the blood I now needed to survive.

And then Eli returned. My first crush, despite the fact he was straight. Eli was the one person who stood up for me in high school. He was a true friend, but I loved him with the ardent focus of a teenager, and once I saw his face again, I knew that love hadn’t died out at all.

Suddenly revenge took a backseat to wooing Eli. Now I could be the man he deserved on his arm, but Eli saw past the new me to the person I still was deep inside. Could he want me if he knew what I had become? Would he love me if he saw me Unmasked?"]

The dual POV in this book almost killed me. Between the mutual pining and the mutual attraction and the mutual mutal-ness of it all?! D: It was a slow burn of the best kind of torture. 

Part of me disliked how Michel had to change himself so that he would like himself, but people do that every day with plastic surgery. Eli didn't mind past Michel, but he certainly doesn't mind present Michel. ;)

This book reminded me of how sweet and snappy and spicy Mia Monroe books can be. Perfection.

Trigger Warnings: really mean bullies in the past tense, including physical violence and homophobic slurs. lots of current day bloodiness and murder. he isa vampire, after all.  

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