Continuing on a dark romance kick...and oddly enough a TBR/Beat-The-Backlog kick (and ignoring my ARCs kick). Here's Louise Collins's "Freshman." It's the first novel in her Behind Bars series.
["Nate Mathews is a murderer. Alfie doesn’t know the details of his crime, and he doesn’t want to. All he knows is Nate Mathews is evil, and his colleagues at Larkwood prison shudder at his name.
But Alfie has caught Nate’s eyes, and they start flirting in the early hours. It’s forbidden, terrifying, but arousing too. One whisper of ‘Freshman’ from Nate, and Alfie’s stomach flutters, and his pulse increases. Alfie knows if he reads Nate’s file his attraction to the criminal will turn to disgust, but he can’t bring himself to do it. He likes Nate. Nate makes him feel wanted, and that’s a first for Alfie.
Is Nate genuine? Or is Alfie destined for heartbreak?"]
Didn’t think I’d root for a character like Nate so damn early in the book when we really didn’t get any of his redeeming qualities yet…but here we are. Then it got worse (here’s me telling Alfie he’s an idiot for not trusting the triple-murderer, while I’m sobbing).
God fuck, this book was all kinds of anxious, but not for the reasons you’re thinking.
But don’t worry, even with all of the crying and angst, there’s a very well earned HEA.
Trigger Warnings: violence, talk of murder, very bad men on both sides of the law, mention of rape, and more.
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