Their marriage could have only been arranged and orchestrated by Remo Cora Lord Almighty himself with angels singing in the background. Upon each reread, the book doesn't cease to fascinate me: Nino and Kiara are so intrinsically, infinitely right for each other. Nino's duality has such a calming, comforting effect on me: like the cold, serene and deadly expanse of the ocean, he is only susceptible to one natural phenomenon: earthquake named Kiara, and I loved to watch the effect of disturbances she caused. I am glad that I managed to enjoy this book a lot more than the first book of the series and it has me very much looking forward to the next book, which I think will have some pretty explosive drama and chemistry.⋆The evolution from clinical killing machine to doting husband carrying a torch for the one and only⋆ Twisted Emotions is a lot more character focussed which works with these two characters because of how complex they are, there wasn’t a lot of action outside of the romance which did work well in this book, but I do usually fancy a little more going on outside the romance. Kiara on the other hand is a very troubled character who doesn’t have control of her emotions, and has to really work hard on herself to eventually become someone more confident in themselves and to even be a bit sassy. He treated Kiara with compassion and care as soon as she came to live with them and whilst he did keep himself in check it was good to see the occasional chink in his armour.

Nino is an enigmatic character, he is restrained and very straight-forward about who he is and what he will want from you. Kiara has to also live with Nino’s brothers who are not always as controlled as he is and I think that there were some very interesting interactions between them, especially with Remo, I like that the dynamic shifts a little the more she is around. Thankfully it did the trick, there was a lot about this book that I was not at all expecting, there were some slightly heavier themes but there was also more of a complex relationship to explore which I enjoyed.Īn arranged marriage trope in this kind of romance book is always entertaining because you know it’s going to make for a pretty interesting getting to know you stage and in this case it worked so well, putting two very opposite people together in this intense and crazy family is asking for trouble in both the good and the bad ways. After reading about Nino in the first book in this series I was definitely intrigued for his story and was hoping that it would have a little bit more of the spark that I was searching for in Twisted Loyalties.

Twisted Emotions by Cora Reilly