Beautiful Carnage: A Dark Enemies to Lovers Romance (Dark Empire, Book 1)

What an amazing book. I never read the Zodiac Academy series as it didn’t appeal to me.However this book was truly amazing. It’s well written.They are truly enemies at the beginning… not like any typical mafia book where they are enemies for 2 seconds … here they are really at each other throat!!It’s slow burn but with enough spice for my liking, likeable characters with normal reaction, and some plot twists and the mix was perfect!Will read the other book now

Sloan Calabresis, a mafia princess and the only daughter of the head of the Calabresis family.Rocco Romero the son of the head of the Romero familyTwo rival families and two people who hate each other BUT when the Romero boys seize an opportunity to get their revenge and rain down terror on Sloan's wedding day (an arranged marriage) a twist in events leads to Sloan being taken and held captive by Rocco and his brothers in a house in the middle of nowhere.Two different families but Sloan and Rocco are two very similar strong-willed and stubborn people which makes for entertaining reading. At first, they hate each other but that hatred slowly begins to fade due to the sizzling chemistry between them.This is a slow-burn romance with moderate violence, and it's an enemies-to-lovers romance.I enjoyed it. I found it slow going at first, and it took a while to get the romance part of this book but in the latter part of the story, I could not turn the pages fast enough especially when it really picked up and the action and hotness started.This is a good mafia romance, I liked the characters and I would be interested to see how the other books in the series compare. There are three Romero brothers and each one of them has an interesting character and each one of them are so different from each other.Told in first person and leads to a hea.

This is not my usual genre however I have loved everything else these authors have written and thought I'd give it a try.Im so glad I did! Its called Beautiful Carnage and that's exactly how I felt after reading it. It was beautifully written and the story made carnage of my emotions. I loved the world building I felt like I'd knew this world even though I've never read anything like it before. The characters were amazing. I hated Rocco with a passion and found sloan a bit irritating but by the end I was hooked and amazed by them both.I'm so excited to see this series grow, the other characters are wrangling into my affections and I want to know more....I'm so glad I gave this a try and may have found a new genre to explore.

This book is so different to the other works that I've read from these authors but by no means any less.These authors have the skill to set the scene, provide the tools and sit back to watch the drama unfold. I was apprehensive at first, I'm a massive fan of the Zodiac series and the Ruthless Fae. This is more of a contemporary book, which sees the tangle of two opposing families, like a hotter steamer version of Romeo and Juliet.This book delivered and more. There were twists all along the way, and you can't help but root for the characters, and I was really invested in the story.I love this book is a series but can be enjoyed as a standalone, it gives you all the feels and the resolution packed with a neat bow.I loved the story, and can't wait to read what happens to the others in future books.

Good book, it started out entertaining, however I felt that it could have been a lot shorter.. it was unnecessarily long, it took til 70% until we got any steamy scenes.I’m now intrigued to read nicoli story, but hoping it’s not as dragged out as this one.

After reading the twisted sisters' RH books, I knew I Loved their writing but I did not expect to love this book in the way that I do. It has tropes that I love, ranging from forced proximity to enemies to lovers. Once I'd started delving into Sloan & Rocco's story, I couldn't put it down. It has everything you can expect and love from this dynamic duo, a whole lot of angst, spicy as hell scenes, chemistry that will leave you hot and bothered, plot twists you never see coming and some dark themes. This book was brilliant, and I'll definitely be devouring the next book. Can't wait to read more of this series

Beautiful Carnage was a lot,in a good way.Beautiful savage was…ok,I still have less than a half of beautiful savage left to read and so far my favourite is Frankie,so to the authors,please give us more of Frankie 😂

Well the twisted sisters did it again. Hooked and devoured. Every book of theirs leaves your breathless for more.Sloan's story is about strength in the face of insurmountable odds and letting your inner beast loose. Absolutely stunningly written and loved every word.

-m/f-no cheating-Romeo/Juliet vibe-enemies to lovers-steamy-slow burn-interconnected stand-alone series-multi POV-mafia, but very light on the mafia aspectThis book was brilliant. I have to say that it exceeded my expectations. It’s always a gamble for me on whether or not I’m going to like a book by these two authors, I seem to go back and forth. But this one has well and truly exceeded my expectations.You have a mafia princess and a mafia prince from rival families who have had it engrained in them to hate the other due to many lives that have been taken on both sides. On our principessa’s wedding day, she is kidnapped and taken from her life in metaphorical chains, and placed in actual chains by the 3 brothers of the rival family. From there, we slowly watch the sexual tension heat the pages up and we get to watch their opinions of each other slowly change. I like the slow burn aspect because I felt like we really got to watch them fall in love, and it wasn’t insta-love, or even insta-lust, they wanted nothing to do with each other sexually in the beginning, cue the angst and alllll the feels regarding her believing she’s going to be killed and doing everything she can to escape. She really did have a lot of fight in her. I liked the extra mysteries/tension going on in the story, and the angst in the latter part of the book. I never felt bored with this book. The mafia aspect of the story, to me, was very light, which I was fine with because I really liked just sticking to watching these two circle each other until they snapped.Rocco was a yummy as hell manic psycho. I loved that he could be cold and controlled but yet also still had his crazy side where he literally makes up his own words to popular kids songs about murder, he was quite entertaining. And once he decided she was it for him, NOTHING would stand in the way.Sloan was the perfect heroine for Rocco. I thought she was the perfect mix of strong and soft. Not once did I ever roll my eyes at her or think she was a weak heroine. I really did think she was great. I personally thought she had a lot of growth in this book. She went from a girl who accepted her carefully planned future by her father, to learning how to stand up for herself and become a survivor. Although she always had the fight to live, right from the very beginning. I LOVED watching her put up a hell of a fight for a small woman on this big brute of a man.I have to say that these authors are truly on-point with their character development. I felt like I really was in these characters heads and could understand their actions because I KNEW them.Overall, this was an excellent book and I look forward to reading others in the series.

OKAY so Caroline and Susanne slay me.I loved Rocco. 100% added to my list of fake boyfriends because he is effing perfection. So damaged, dark, broken, twisted and Savage. But all it takes is recognizing his twin flame in Sloan and he's done for.And Sloan! I 100% thought she would be some weak, scared, ill equipped spoiled brat. But- she has SO much fire in her. She wants to figure out who she can be without being guarded all the time. And even though she's been kidnapped by the Romero's, she's more free than she's ever been!Holy crap though, was this a slow burn. The tension had me ON EDGE!!! When they finally fooled around for the first time I was off the couch celebrating right along with them!!I loved that no only was this the whole mafia kidnapping thing, we had some additional storylines.Also... how many TROPES can you get in a book?!?!- kidnapped on her wedding day by a rival mafia family with an obviously hot son- forced proximity- Enemies to Lovers- bully- and then that surprise at the end.....!Yep. Loved it so good.**** can we also have a standing ovation for the Icicle?!?! Well done. Just so good.12/104/5 spice... I mean, it was HOT!

This book is absolutely amazing if ur looking for a good dark (mafia) romance this is it.The main story is going to be about 2 mafia families that are rivals.There is an arranged marriage trope the girl gets kidnapped on her wedding day, by the oldest son of the other familie.He kidnaps her and they start falling for each other very spicy and steamy scenes will come up.Its a real enemies to lovers book and absolutely so good!I gave it a 5⭐️ cant wait to hop on the following book names Beautiful Savage!Also i rarely buy from Amazon but i came nice nothing was wrong with the book so im very happy!

It's so difficult to find a good mafia book. This.one was.really perfect for my taste. Let's move to the second one.

Libro bueno para pasar el rato.