Love's Forbidden Flower

De: Diane Rinella

Narrado por: Diane Rinella

Duración: 8 h y 22 m

Resumen del Editor

Please note: This is a new adult romance novel involving two siblings who struggle with their emotions. This is not a work of erotica.

The heart cares not what society forbids.

Lily nurtures a secret love for a flawless man - the one who is her soul mate. Donovan is gorgeous, charismatic, and delights in all of Lily's talents and quirks. Their innate knowledge of each other is almost telepathic. Together they interlock like fine threads creating luxurious silk.

But society dictates this picture-perfect adoration is the ghastliest of all possibilities.

As Lily embarks on a quest for the romance the heavens intended, her suitor turns reluctant. Desperate to uncover why Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hiding decayed from a tender-hearted gentleman into a ferociously self-serving, cocky bastard, Lily is prepared for battle when it comes to the salvation of her soul mate. However, Donovan traps Lily in a mental game of chess, leaving her to question his sanity. When Lily's revelations about Donovan's destructive alter ego lead to an inconceivable truth, can she help Donovan survive fate's cruel joke?

Impassioned, witty, and deeply moving, Love's Forbidden Flower is filled with stunning controversies that will forever haunt your heart.

©2012, 2016 Diane Marie Rinella (P)2017 Diane Rinella

great story

it was not exactly what I was looking for but it was just what I needed.

Enjoyed

I really enjoyed this story but was sad on how it ended. Hopefully book 2 ends better.

2.5 Stars *Spolier in Review*

I stared out really enjoying this book, which I did by audio. I was a bit confused by the target audience here, because while it's sort of a coming of age story about this teenage girl, there is enough sex and incestual themes throughout, that it should probably be targeted a lot older. And it does state for 18+, but the way that she [Lily, our fmc] is written, she is very naive and immature, but she talks like a British scholar sometimes. It was all very confusing.

Regarding the story, we start out with Lily and Donovan already madly in love with each other, I wish we would have started earlier in their lives, so we could see that develop, or at the very least, get some backstory. Both characters flip and flop about each other being their soulmates, but are constantly falling in love with, or hooking up with, other people. Donovan's is at least later explained, but Lily just comes off as disingenuous with her feelings. By the end, it seems like Society wins, instead of Love. And that's not what I signed up for when I picked up this book.

I wasn't a fan of the narration. The parts by and about Lily were fine, but any time it switched to another character's voicing, it was either cringy (the British accents) or not distinguishable from anyone else and I couldn't tell who was talking.