You don’t read about the characters, you are the characters.

All you need to do is close your eyes, and you’re transported to another world, another life, another dimension, in which your acne clears, your crops grow, your boss gives you a raise and your student loans simply vanish. Whose descriptions are vividly painted on your eyelids.

Whose characters take residence in your heart. If you’re lucky, once in a lifetime (or more than once, but that’s if you personally robbed the remaining 7B people of their chance at luck), you stumble upon an author whose words speak to your soul.

“I’d follow this man to the fiery gates of hell if he just held my hand.” You know when you read a book and everything, from the writing, to the characters, romance, just everything works for you and you have that stupid lovesick smile from beginning to end? The only time you’re hurting is when you realize you’re nearing the end of the book, and that just breaks your heart? And once you finish and close the book, you take a deep breath and smile wistfully while thinking to yourself what a time to be alive and what a way to end a truly shitty year? This was that book for me. This was everything I wanted and much, much, more. I have a plethora of commitment issues and, usually, I can’t read past 2/3 books of a series before they come out full force, but for this series? ᶜᵒᵐᵐⁱᵗᵐᵉⁿᵗ ⁱˢˢᵘᵉˢ?Īny-always-rambling way, back to the book. So, anyone who knows me knows this is one of my all time favorite series. Unfortunately, a Russian winter is the coldest of them all, and Mila soon learns the only way to escape intact is to do the impossible and thaw her captor’s heart. But it doesn’t take long for his caress to become a rough grasp muffling her screams. One with unexplained wealth, tattoos on his hands, and secrets in his eyes. She never expected to fall for a man on the way. Suffocated by the rules and unanswered questions, Mila does what she’s always wanted to. Not about her papa’s absences or his refusal to let her set foot in her birthplace-Russia. Having always done what is expected of her, Mila dresses the part, only dates college boys with exemplary backgrounds, and doesn’t ask questions.

She refrained from telling her it would be literally while Mila ran for her life. Simply perfection!' – Charmaine Pauls, USA Today bestselling authorĪ fortune teller once told Mila she’d find a man who would take her breath away.

Danielle lori the darkest