Flawed Love (House of Obsidian #2) By Bella Jewel

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Rainer Torrence is everything I could have wanted in my life and more. 

He became my best friend when I was Thirteen years old. 

From then on, we were inseparable. He was my first love and my first heartbreak. 

But I always thought it was forever. 

Until his Father died and things went bad. 

Then suddenly, he disappeared. 

Ten years and I didn’t see or hear from him. 

Then came the call I’d be praying for– he was back in town. 

Only the man I remembered is not him. 

This man is quiet, deadly, and so incredibly beautiful. 

He also doesn’t remember me. 

He looks into my eyes, and he sees nothing. 

Nothing. 

So, I let him believe I’m just a girl that walked into his bar. 

I let him believe I’m just a friend. 

I let him use me on the cold, dark nights. 

I let him believe that I am as emotionless about our relationship as he is. 

I just let the secret go on and on. 

But all secrets have an end, don’t they?

I was gifted an ARC in exchange for an honest review. 

Bella Jewel does it again. 

Holy hell!!!
I have wanted to read Rainer's book since we meet him in Pippa's, another character we meet in the Jokers Wrath novels. We know he was kidnapped and sold as a slave and ended up escaping, only to come back home, drink his life away and lose himself in endless women. 

When Pippa returns back into his life he starts to feel connected again. He loves her. After all he spent years working as a slave right next to her. They are the only ones who understand each other. 

So, surprise suprise when we find out that Rainer has a past. A past with a girl who loves him, misses him and has thought he was dead all these years.
Mali had been bestfriends with Rainer for years. Their friendship held no bounds. And just like with Flawed Heart, Flawed Love is written in past tense and present tense, so we get to see them together for themselves. 
I won't dive into much about their pasts, but I will say when he left, it was heartbreaking for Mali. 
Then when she finds him years later, walks up to him, for him to not realise who she is, breaks her heart. 
It broke mine too because after reading a little about them when they were younger, it was hard to imagine him actually forgetting her. 

Anyway, Mali decides to grab what she can from him, see if she can find out the truth of why he disappeared. She hopes he was just in an accident, that he lost his memory, but then he dives in deeper and she realises just how wrong she was. 

Just as Rainer makes a promise to see where their relationship will go, Pippa steps in and Mali overhears what he really feels for her. 
I will say, I loved Pippa in the other novel, she was one of my favourite characters, but in this book she was so cunning and manipulative. She knew exactly what she was doing when she would run to Rainer and cry. 
I honestly disliked her throughout the whole book, even when she has a coffee with Mali. It was so obvious she didn't want anyone else with him but her. I hated it, especially when she rubbed her relationship with Tyke in Rainers face time and time again. 
Mali had to come second on more than one occasion, even when the truth about who she is comes out, does she come second, and I wouldn't be able to forgive that. Even with the way things ended I still disliked Pippa. 

On a happier note, I loved Rainer and Mali together, both young and present versions. They were so funny together. 

5* 

Flawed Heart (House of Obsidian #1) By Bella Jewel

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I met him in college, and I fell in love. 
It was a beautiful love, pure and perfect. 
Max quickly became everything I could have ever wanted. 
He was the jock, the popular guy, and I was just Belle. 
But he made me so much more. 
He gave me everything I could have ever wanted in life. 
But one night, one accident. It changed everything. 
The man I loved. The man I thought I knew...disappeared. 
I can't tell you the exact moment he fell out of love with me. But he did. 
I wish I could tell you there was hope. 
That I hung on. That I fought. 
I wish I could tell you that we fixed it. 
That happily ever after was just out of our grips. 
It wasn’t. I ran. In the dead of the night, I packed my things and I left him. 

Five years later, I have returned. 
He’s still the same man I left behind. 
A deadly underground fighter for the House of Obsidian. 
He’s still dangerous. He’s still broken. I still love him. 
We're both holding a secret, and that secret might just change everything. 
Maybe I was wrong. 
Maybe I should have never left. 
Did I give up too easily? 

This is the part where I’m supposed to turn back around and run…but I don’t. 
I can't. 

I was gifted an ARC in exchange for an honest review. 


I honestly don't know where I was or what I was thinking when I looked at this blurb or the teasers. I honestly thought it was just a new series of Bella's. I love all her work and have never rated anything of hers lower than a 4*. 

I started this book, like I said, thinking it was a new series. Which, I suppose it kind of is, but the characters are two I knew very well. I can't believe from all the reading I do with her teasers and sneaky peaks, I didn't clue in on who they were until I started reading this. 

We meet Belle in Pippa's book in the Jokers Wrath series, same with Max. I was intrigued about their story and couldn't wait to read it. When I realised who I was reading about I jumped for joy aha 

The two have shared a tragic past and although it could have been sorted had the pair communicated better with each other, the two have a lot to get through. 
Max is angry that Belle has kept their daughter hidden from him all these years, but she's been heartbroken and alone since she left him all those years ago. When she comes back to look after her sick mom she intends to stay out of his way, but it doesn't go to plan.

The book is written in present tense and past tense. The two met while they were in college and fell in love instantly. They overcome so much and were so deeply in love that they married and moved in together. Not long after Max's father died and he took over his businesses. 

Now the two have reunited and their feelings are just as strong and as powerful as they were back then. But can they overcome their pasts? Can they forgive and forget. 
Bella Jewel honestly knows how to write a romance novel with a twist. Loved this and would defo recommend it to other readers.

5*

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Bella Jewel's standalone's 

• Step-lover: A step brother romance  ~ My Review
• Wingman (woman)
• Life after Taylah ~ My Review
• Angels in leather ~ My Review
• Number Thirteen ~ My Review
• How To Fall In Love
• Fleeting Moments
• 72 Hours
• The Watcher ~ My Review
• Blind Date
• Wild Child ~ My Review

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Bella Jewels reading order

The MC Sinners

• Hell's Knight #1 ~ My Review
• Heaven Sinners #2 ~ My Review
• Knight's Sinner #3 ~ My Review
• Bikers and Tinsel #MC christmas special

Jokers Wrath MC 

• Joker's Wrath MC Boxed Set 1-4
• Precarious #1  ~ My Review
• Melancholy #2 ~ My Review
• Anguish #3 ~ My Review
• Desolation #4  ~ My Review
• Bestie #5 ~ My Review
• Valiant #6 ~ My Review

MC Sinners Next Generation

• Pandemonium #1 ~ My review
• Drifter #2 ~ My Review
• Manacle #3 ~ My Review

Til death 

• Til Death Boxed set
• Til Death part one  ~ My review
• Til Death Part Two ~ My Review

Criminals of the ocean 

• Enslaved By the ocean #1 ~ My Review
• Where darkness lies #2 ~ My Review
• Untitled #3

House of Obsidian 

• Flawed Heart #1 ~ My review
• Flawed Love #2 ~ My review

Alpha's Heart

• Hard to Fight #1 ~ My review
• Hard to Break #2 ~ My review
• Hard to Forget #3 ~ My Review

Amore 

• Amore: Part One ~My Review 
• Amore: Part Two ~ My Review 

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Desolation (Jokers Wrath MC #4) By Bella Jewel

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Pippa. 

The girl you all know as damaged. Quiet. Broken. 

She doesn’t fit in. Nothing in her world feels right. She’s trapped in a spiral of darkness that seems to be consuming her day by day, until she sees nothing but an empty, black hole. 

Her world is a broken place she can’t escape. 

She has people around her who matter. Who love her. But it’s not enough. Not enough to break her out of the bitter despair she lives in. 

Until Tyke. 

He knows pain. He knows darkness. He’s sweet. He’s kind. But most of all… 

He understands her. 

Combining their demons doesn’t seem like the best plan. Everyone is against them. He deserves better. She deserves better. They’ll never work. They’re too broken. Too damaged. It’s a destructive combination that will only end in heartbreak. 

He’s a biker. She’s a broken angel. 

But in their desolation, they will find peace. 

With each other.

I received Desolation as an ARC in exchange for an honest review. 

Bloody hell, I feel like I've waited so long to get my eyes on this book. 
Desolation is the fourth and final book into the Jokers Wrath series which is really depressing as I THOUGHT everyone was getting a book. But wait!! Hold that thought, certain characters are getting a book, but it will be another series or standalone. 

Back to the story. 
Pippa, we meet Pippa when Santana and the Jokers Wrath MC go find her where she's been kept as a slave for years, been starved and treated poorly. Santana never knew where he sister was taken and for Pippa, she never knew the reason as to why she was sold. Or if her sister was alive. 

In this book Pippa is still struggling to come to terms with everyday life. Even down to ordering food, or using a phone she finds it hard to do. Which is understandable after being kidnapped for most of her childhood. Before that she was living on the streets, before that she was been beaten and worse by her foster parent. She really hadn't had the best upbringing or luck in life. Her spirit just seemed to have broken or died. There just seemed to be no fight in her. After years of fighting to stay alive it just seemed weird she would feel the way she did about being free. I mean, wasn't that what she was fighting for?
I love Pippa's character though, I have from the beginning and when I found out Tyke and her were getting their own book I jumped for joy.

Tyke in this novel seemed to change a lot through out. One minute he's the biker I know him to be, the caring, kind, hard, rugged, kind man, but then at times he seemed too much, especially for someone like Pippa. 
Like their first time together, it didn't seem something she deserved, or the way the Tyke I come to read would give it to her. He didn't seem understanding at times. 

Anyway, the book is brilliant, we got to see Tyke bring out the best in Pippa, bring the life into her again and for Pippa to make a friend. 
The two form a bond from the very beginning, but in this novel they become so much more than friends. At times I thought Tyke only saw her as a broken angel, but then he sings this song and it completely changed my mind. 

Two new characters are brought into the book, one we don't know a lot about or why he is there, but still, I can't wait to know if he's got a story coming because I liked him. 
Then there is Rainer, who I freaking adored from the get go. He's another slave that was there with Pippa, he was attached to her from the minute he was brought in and he didn't seem to like her. But then they are faced with cleaning up a murder that their capture done and the two bonded when Rainer held Pippa from breaking down. After all, the rules were if one steps out of line, the two attached both die. I loved him. 
I read the ending of the book where we get a glimpse into Rainer's book and I have to say, I'm excited as hell to read his. Loved him. 

The ending to this book near about killed me. I have never cried so much in my life. I literally balled my eyes out over it it killed me that much. I don't want to ruin it or even hint about what it is, but I will say it affects EVERYONE. It really killed me. 

5 top amazing, well earned *

Step-Lover By Bella Jewel

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I met him before I knew. 

I loved him before I knew. 

I didn’t know he was my stepbrother when I fell for Bladen. I fell for a mystery guy who I spent a long, amazing weekend with. Then he got up and left me, without even a goodbye. I was nothing more than a bit of fun. 

He broke my heart. 

I didn’t see him again. 

Until my mom and her new husband, Jack, decide to take us all on a family vacation to the lake so I can meet my new stepbrothers for the first time. 

I don’t see it coming. 

When he gets out of that car, my world stops. My passionate lover is…my stepbrother. 

He isn’t the same man. He’s a prick and he makes sure I know it. 

I’m not the same woman. I’m in love with him and I very much plan to make sure he knows it. 

He won’t make my life easy. I won’t give up. 

Seriously hoping there is going to be more from these characters. In fact I'm praying for it. 
I received an ARC and trust when I tell you I dropped every book just so I could start this one. 

The book really did surprise me though, not only because it was different from all the other stepbrother novels that are out lately, but because it's so far out from what Bella Jewel normally writes. I have to give it to her, she did an amazing job. 

Aria, after losing her father and sister in a car crash when she was little and witnessing her sister die has felt like a lost soul all her life. When her best friend takes her out one night underage to a club, she decides to lose her V card to a mystery stranger who makes her skin prickle. 
They decide no names should be given when he propositions her a weekend of endless pleasure. Taking him up on the offer, they decide to give each other fake names, agreeing to exchange real names at the end of the weekend, only on the last day Aria wakes up to find him gone. 

A Year on, her stepdad Mark  stepsons are coming to live near them, so he decides the best way to get to know one another is to go to his lake house for the summer. 
Aria has the biggest shock of her life when she finds Mystery man is the one and only Blade, Marks son. 

From there their relationship is messy, moody, sexy, doomed, and heartbreaking. There story is filled with so much suspense, drama, angst that I wanted to shake there heads together. 

It did, (I admit this) get kind of frustrating towards the end. The years kept passing and still the two would not get together or avoid that they had strong feelings towards one another. 
I knew it was forbidden, but they never gave it a chance until the end. 

Step-lover doesn't just focus on the relationship between the two characters, but the relationships between Aria and the other brothers. Not only have they formed a strong bond with her, but they've both confided their dark, untold secrets. 
It also deals with the heartbreaking subject of one of the brothers being Gay and in the closest so to speak. Only Aria knows, but then when he decides to get a boyfriend as is caught by some jocks, he's worried about his family and again confides in Aria. Only, the timing couldn't have been worse as the Jocks see him and Aria and verbally attack them, it leads then to Aria's stepbrother getting badly beaten. 
Not wanting to give anymore away I'm going to leave it at that, but let me just say, no one should be bullied for who they chose to be attracted to or who they love. I found myself wanting to skip that who scene but couldn't stop as I needed to know what was going to happen. I felt so sorry for him after. It broke my heart. 

Bella Jewel, you did it again, another fantastic novel 

5*  

Til death Part Two By Bella Jewel

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You know how it went for me. 
You know what he did. 
You know the fire he left inside my soul when he crushed me into a thousand tiny pieces. 
Since Marcus, my life has been a blur of emptiness. 
Since Marcus there has been nothing. 
I’m alone, my Mom is dwindling and I feel nothing but emptiness. I work long, I work hard, but why? There’s no longer anything to fight for. 
I know I have to face him. I know I have to go back. To fix my life, I have to break my ties to him. 
Seeing Marcus again will destroy me, but it’s time to finish this. 
I don’t expect the bitter, twisted emotions I’ll feel when I see him again, and when I lose everything once more, because of him, the only thing on my mind is revenge. 
But how do you hurt someone you still love so deeply? 
How can I still care for a monster? How can he still make me feel? 
Our story is the most complicated of them all, it’s far from beautiful, it’s far from perfect, it’s just a twisted mess of emotion that neither of us knows how to fix. 
But we will fix it. You’ll see. 

Since this was meant to be a novella it felt like I was reading a full length novel. Usually it only takes me an hour and half at most to read one, but this had taken me nearly four hours. 
As soon as I received the ARC I couldn't put it down. 

It' doesn't start off from where the last one left, but it does start off really good. It's nearly two years later, she's living in a run down home, working all hours she's given and supporting her mother and her illness. 
There's also a little bomb that is dropped down on us but I don't want to spoil that for you. 

Anyway, not being able to afford food, or look after her mother who has become more ill. So she rings the one person she can think of to help her. Her dad. 
He came rushing in, sent her packing back home and stayed with her mother to get treatment as she was too sick to fly back home. 
Katia needed to go back to tie up loose ends. She wasn't living. She was just plodding along. We read the story in her POV and the past is written in Marcus's POV. I loved it written like this. I felt like we were being caught up with everything without being confused on present and past. 

The novel is hotter than the first by far. It's addictive, and it had me in complete tears a few times. It really broke my heart. 

I loved getting to know her brothers and Bella? If your reading this can we have a novella on those hunk of boys??? please???? (Let's hope she says yes ;)lol) 
Honestly did love getting to know them and her friend Candy in another light. They completed the book. 

And then we have the new character introduced to us. If you have read the joker's wrath novels where Marcus and Katia are first introduced then you'll know they have a rival gang who they do not get one with. Well, now it's been run by someone new, someone who intrigued me. He didn't seem like the other bikers which I loved because I honestly hated their biker group and their beliefs. When Katia goes to them and orders a hit, Jahed (I think I spelled that wrong but shhhhh) who is the new president sees a broken girl in Katia and agrees knowing she would be back to cancel the hit. I liked him. His club needed her money but he handed it over with no consequences. I liked that and looking forward to reading his novel. 

As for Marcus and Katia??? Do they work it out? Do they finally cut all strings??? 

You'll have to take a look yourself. Promise you it won't be disappointing either. 

5* Another perfect novel by Bella Jewel.

Til Death By Bella Jewel

Til Death By Bella Jewel

They say there's a fine line between love and hate. 

There is. 

I married a douchebag. 

I didn't know it at the time. 

He came in like a handsome stranger and blew me off my feet. 

I fell madly in love, like the naive girl I am. 

Then he left me high and dry. 

Turns out, I was nothing more than a business plan for billionaire playboy, Marcus Tandem. 

He needed to be married in order to obtain his grandfathers business, and I was the poor victim in his path. 

I believed in what we had, until the truth reared its ugly head. 

I never meant anything to Marcus. Not a damned thing. 

With my world spinning on its axis, the girl I once was has long since died. 

Instead he left me as this empty, emotionless shell. 

I may have made a vow before God to love and cherish him ‘Til Death do we part, but it’s time for me to give back to Marcus, exactly what he gave me. 

He has to pay. 

And pay he will. 

Oh my god. This book is freaking amazing. 

It's one of those ones where you start it and can't put it down. It's so addictive. I loved it. 

It's not a long story, but a two part series and boy is it worth it. We meet Marcus in Anguish and I don't know about about anyone else, but I really wanted to know what his story was. Now I know I need more. 

I did get confused with parts cause it kept going back to when they met, to the present. I wish it gave us some warning to when the time changed. Not that it ruined the story, I just went with the flow. 

I felt so sorry Katia throughout the book, but the last scene, the massive cliffhanger? That tore at me and had me crying for her. 

Marcus on the other hand I had a love hate relationship with him. I wasn't sure if his actions were genuine or fake. 

I cannot wait till the next one is released and thankfully Bella isn't making us wait long. 4 weeks till the next one is released. 

5* 

Angels In Leather By Bella Jewel

Buy Link: Angel's in leather

Love is never beautiful. 

It's dirty, and raw, and broken. That's what makes it perfect. It's two broken pieces forming together to make something whole, something worth fighting for. 

Axel Wraithe is my other piece. He's the biker who's been hunting me for a year, yet he's the one who can so easily break me. 

He wants what I have, and I want what he's got to give. Only he's fighting against himself, not willing to give it. 

He's got monsters in his heart, changing who he is, changing what he believes in. I'm the only one who can help him, and I won't stop until I've got the truth. 

I want to fix what's broken, but I can't do that without him. 

So I'll fight for my gorgeous, broken biker. I'll fight until our pieces fit back together.

Angel's in leather is the one book that had me having nightmares. I've read disturbing books, more so than this one, but there was something about it that really made my stomach twist and turn. I don't know whether it's because of the forced sexual acts or what, but it really played on my mind. Bella Jewel really knows how to get you to feel what is actually happening in the book. 

It isn't even the darkest read I've ever read, or the sickest. Which is why I found it weird this one played on my mind. 

I didn't really show much of an MC, even though Axel was in an MC. It was mostly about situations around it and all to do with what she had on him. 

I was surprised about certain surprises that came up, and yet again Bella Jewel throws us a curve ball making our assumptions of the book totally wrong. I honestly thought I had it all planned out right again, but then she threw us completely off towards the end with something no one could have guessed happening. 

To give you a snippet of what the book is about without giving too much away, I will tell you it's about two people who kind of grew up together. When Axel leaves suddenly she doesn't know why, she just knows he changed into someone she didn't recognize.

He comes back years later to save her, then he kills her father. Then she goes on the run with a memory stick with information her father wants her to keep safe.  

Like all her other books I can't tell you what goes on like what most people do in their reviews. It's a book you'll either love or hate. I have loved all her books so far and not one of her work has being predictable, original, or poorly written. 

I've rated it 4*

Number Thirteen By Bella Jewel

Buy Link: Number Thirteen

This isn't a dark romance, nor is it a light fluffy one. It's broken, and captivating, and a story of two people putting themselves back together. It's a story of a broken man who found his way to heal with Thirteen Girls. 

We're thirteen girls, captive to a man we rarely see. 
Obedience will become all we know. It is the only emotion we're permitted to feel. 
When we're bad, we're punished. When we're good, we're rewarded. Our scars run deep. Yet we survive, because we have to, because HE teaches us too. 
All of us are special, we feel it with everything we are. 
He has us for a reason, but it's a reason we don't know. 
We've haven't seen his face, but we know that something deeply broken lies beneath the darkness. With every touch, with every punishment, we know it. 
Then came the day he saved my life, and I saw him for the first time. He released something inside of me. 
He showed me who he truly is. 
Now I want him. 
I'll go against Everything I know to be with him. 
A monster. 
My monster. 
Loving him is a sin, but a sinner I am. 
I won't stop until I see every part of him. 
Even the parts he keeps locked deep down inside. 
I am Number Thirteen, and this is my story.

I don't even know how to start with this book. I was kind of confused what was going on with it. Like where had the girls come from? Why was they taken? I tried so hard and I honestly thought I'd guessed not even a quarter of the way through, but I was completely wrong. I was no where near giving it the right guess. I'm still not entirely sure if I've got why he did it right, but hopefully I have. 

The girls are all numbered, none of called by name and are treated good and bad through the book. 
 I was a little skittish on my view of William, but after a while you could see he was generally trying to do some good in the word. 
While I'm on the subject of William I could not believe what had happened to him. It made me physically sick thinking of what thoses bullies did to him. I felt so deeply for him and I can now understand why he did with the girls. 

I can't give out too much as it would ruin the plot. But like I say, never go by my word, these books aren't for everyone. They're dark, kind of twisted and roughless. That said, the book was flawless and had true meaning behind it. Even only a few other people viewed certain things the same. 

4.5*

Where the darkness lies (Criminals of the ocean #2) By Bella Jewel

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Anger and pain brought them together, but their passion might just set them free.

Dimitri wants only one thing: revenge. His stepfather, Hendrix, has caused him nothing but pain and heartache. At last Dimitri can take something—someone—important to Hendrix and make him pay: Jess.

Jess is feisty and strong headed. Her past haunts her and connects her to the dangerously dark Dimitri in an unexpected way. Dimitri keeps his secrets locked deep inside, and Jess is drawn to this broken man like no one before.

With little to cling to besides their haunting pasts, both could have been doomed to lives spent raging against the darkness that holds them prisoner. Instead, it seems that as their pain draws them closer together, it is their desire and combustible passion that will set them free.

Where Darkness Lies is a sizzling romance and the second book in the popular Criminals of the Ocean series.

Well well well, what can I say? I really don't know how to describe the book to you other than it was freaking awesome. 
I couldn't put it down. Like literally. I felt like I was going to miss out on something if I did lol. 
Bella Jewel really knows how to surprise you to because I thought I had the book planned out in my head, then bam, something else happened instead. 
There were so many times I was literally hanging on to the edge of my seat, shitting myself on what was going to happen. I loved it. 

I felt so much for both characters. Usually when two people, both with traumatic backgrounds get together i see it heading for disaster, but with Demiti and Jess all I see is broken perfection. They are so right for each other yet completely wrong and yet they make it work for one another. 

In book one Jess is reserved, laid back and keeps to herself and doesn't fight back or stand up for herself. Whereas in this book we see a strong, witter side to her and I prefer this side to her. I liked how she made me laugh, made me cry and the way she held herself throughout her kidnapping journey. Most would have crumbled, but some how her strength kept me wanting more of her story. 

It was the same with demitri. When we get a glimpse of his story in the first book I never would have guessed what had actually happened to him happened. It made me sick to my stomach. 
One part in the book he tells himself he's weak because of the way he let revenge consume him, but he has the right to feel how he wants to feel. Everyone copes differently to small things to big things. There is no right or wrong way to act. Especially people in such a traumatic background like his. Most people would block it out their mind, close off, kill themselves, so I don't think he needed to judge the way he thought about himself. 
I do however believe his anger was aimed at the wrong person. I don't believe Hendrix deserved his hate, his anger or his revenge. To me, his mother and the people that did what they did deserved it. 
Such a well written book with so many twists and turns throughout. 

Loved it. 

5* wish I could rate it more. I do hope there will be more to the Criminals of the Ocean series. 

Enslaved by the Ocean (Criminals of the ocean #1) By Bella Jewel

Enslaved (Criminals of the Ocean #1) By Bella Jewel

Indigo has a troubled past and there’s no denying it. Tired of being scared, she sets sail aboard a private yacht, hopeful that the open waters of the Atlantic will give her and best friend Eric a much-needed respite.

As if trouble followed her, the yacht catches fire. Stranded in the ocean, cold, hungry, desperate, and alone, Eric and Indi struggle to survive.

Just when they think things couldn’t get much worse, they are captured, held hostage by a band of modern-day pirates. Now they’re in even more trouble than they could have ever imagined.

What Indigo couldn’t have predicted is how broodingly handsome Hendrix, their captain, is. The moment Indi lays eyes on him, she feels sparks fly and a carnal attraction she’s never felt before. Hendrix is pure alpha male: hotter than hot, determined, powerful, and hard to crack.

Hendrix has plans for Indi, dark plans that will put her life at risk. If only Indi could connect with him, it might be more than just lust on the line...it might save her life.

Enslaved by the Ocean is a steamy romance and the first in the Criminals of the Ocean series.

Holy hell. 

Not going to lie, I really didn't see me liking this book, so imagine my surprise when I found myself loving it. 

Oh god, it was just what I needed. It's so good. 

It starts off with the two friends Eric and Indi on a yacht travelling across the seas to Indies new future. 

Having an abusive ex-boyfriend who is released from prison and the first thing he does is threaten her. So her running to another country was the right decision. 

In the book it gives us a glimpse of what her relationship was like, so we aren't going into the book blind. 

Then the yacht explodes killing the captain and sinking the ship. Eric and Indi are on the rescue boat when it explodes and for days they burn, starv, and dehydrate being in the hot sun in the middle of the ocean. That is, until the pirates come in.

After Indie overheard the yacht captain talking about real life pirates, something she thought was a story tale, sees the boat and for what it is and starts to panic. Her friend on the other hand sees it as rescue. Not a very good idea on his book, but then Eric is very black and white like the book describes. He drove me mad at times. There's reassuring, then there's living in denial, Eric, bless him, lived totally in denial. I actually disliked everything about his character. I couldn't seem to like him. It felt like his friendship towards Indie was one sided. 

The minute they get on the ship their friendship is really put to a test. 

Hendrix, the ships captain on the pirate ship, is a god, he's a living, walking, modern day pirate, with a debt to pay. So when he sees Indie, he sees her as a way to settle his debt by selling her as a sex slave. 

This is where Eric and her friendship come to blow. She sacrifices herself, her life, her dignity to make sure he's fed, clean, and safe from any harm until they can get him off to an island where he'll be let free as long as she agrees to behave until he sells her. Eric, being the shitty friend I felt he was belittled her every chance she got. 

Anyway, back to the story. It's freaking amazing. I honestly thought I had it all guessed out, but nope, i was completely surprised to find Bella had little surprises up her sleeve.

I liked both male and female heroins. I could see her attraction towards him, even though he had kidnapped her to sell him, but the further into the book you go, the more you come to love him. 

There's humor in the book and the pirate jokes that she tells when she is drunk one night had me in stitches. I didn't get the one and had to read it a few times. I still laughed lol and I still never got it aha. 

The only problem and i mean only one I found whilst reading was a part where Indie overhears the policemen talking about her yacht exploding. They said the boat had gone a different route, taking them longer or quicker I don't know, but I just felt like we were missing something there. 

Did the Yacht captain plan it? 

Was the boat sabotaged?

Did her ex do it? 

Why did he take a different route? 

was it to run into the pirates?

All these questions ran through my head but I never got an answer to any of them because it never mentioned it again, but it seemed so significant at the time when it was mentioned.

5* and reading the second one now. It's just as good.