Absolutely Brilliant! It's dark, somewhat twisted(but in a good way), yet absolutely beautiful! It's not your typical kind of hea, but it is the only kind that could be worthy of Elizabeth and Lukyan. Two beyond broken people, that find some resemblence of happiness in each other. Lukyan is sent to kill Elizabeth, but as he watches her he sees into her soul, one that has been shredded by abuse and a terrible loss at the hands of her estranged husband. So broken she is ready for death and welcomes it. This lack of any emotion intrigues Lukyan and finds he can't kill her. Returning at a later date he rips her from the world, the insulated bubble of safety she created. She suffers from agoraphobia, and by taking her the way he did she suffers a mental break. He nurses her back to health and along the way teaches her to fight. Fight for herself, for him, for them. He also feels things for her, things and feelings he never knew he had or could have. She begins to grow, and moves back from the ledge of death she once embraced. She finds herself in love with him and he in love with her. This isn't your typical romance, far from it. Darkness,blood,evil,apathy is all they both know. They both find their pleasure in pain, trading one darkness for another. They accept each other, down to their marrow. He knows everything about her, knows her better than she knows herself. She has seen him at his worst, accepts him for the cold,caculating hitman he is and loves him despite all that.
This is probably one of the most beautiful love stories I have ever read. I had so many emotions reading this. At first I thought "Wow, they're two messed up people", but as you read you realize that Elizabeth and Lukyan are perfect for each other. They could never find love, or their kind of happiness in anyone but each other. They are like the last two pieces of the puzzle. They fit together perfectly, filling in the whole picture.
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Wow this book was beautifully tragic! The writing was seriously so damn good. This was my first Anne Malcom book. And definitely not going to be my last. I heard about her on tiktok and after I saw her covers. Talk about gorgeous. I knew I had to give it a read.In this story you follow Elizabeth who suffers from Agoraphobia. Among other things. She has had a very rough life to say the least. She just feels death is all that needs to happen. Along comes a serial killer sent to kill her. But for some reason he let's her go. And then comes back for her. He just knows he needs her. He wants to help her heal. But yet he wants to break her more. Lukyan is a collector of dead things. He feels dead is dead. Dead just is. Both these characters have such dark parts of themselves. This one is seriously the most beautifully thought out dark romance I've ever read. I will warn you it has a very unconventional HEA. It has subjects I just never thought about. Now I have such a different look on some things.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2022
Wow this book was beautifully tragic! The writing was seriously so damn good. This was my first Anne Malcom book. And definitely not going to be my last. I heard about her on tiktok and after I saw her covers. Talk about gorgeous. I knew I had to give it a read.
In this story you follow Elizabeth who suffers from Agoraphobia. Among other things. She has had a very rough life to say the least. She just feels death is all that needs to happen. Along comes a serial killer sent to kill her. But for some reason he let's her go. And then comes back for her. He just knows he needs her. He wants to help her heal. But yet he wants to break her more. Lukyan is a collector of dead things. He feels dead is dead. Dead just is. Both these characters have such dark parts of themselves. This one is seriously the most beautifully thought out dark romance I've ever read. I will warn you it has a very unconventional HEA. It has subjects I just never thought about. Now I have such a different look on some things.
In this story you follow Elizabeth who suffers from Agoraphobia. Among other things. She has had a very rough life to say the least. She just feels death is all that needs to happen. Along comes a serial killer sent to kill her. But for some reason he let's her go. And then comes back for her. He just knows he needs her. He wants to help her heal. But yet he wants to break her more. Lukyan is a collector of dead things. He feels dead is dead. Dead just is. Both these characters have such dark parts of themselves. This one is seriously the most beautifully thought out dark romance I've ever read. I will warn you it has a very unconventional HEA. It has subjects I just never thought about. Now I have such a different look on some things.
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SUZY BAXTER
If I could give it more stars I would OUTSTANDING BOOK
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 16, 2018
SUZY BAXTER
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 16, 2018
If I could give it more I would
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What have I just read? First of all with the hype surrounding this all over Facebook and beyond and with the Blurb and cover, I truly opened this book expecting another dark romanc, except that's not what's happened instead my heart is torn up, my insides feel like Jelly and I am sitting in total silence with my soul tossing around around inside me.
Birds of Paradise isn't my first book by any stretch of the imagination of Anne Malcom my first been Making the Cut (THE SONS OF TEMPLAR SERIES) which is bloody fantastic, and it won't be my last..I will keep going back to this book again and again. After seeing the everyone and his mother coming on Facebook or here at Goodreads saying what a great read it was I just knew I was in for a belter of a story,—I've now read this book twice, first time I always skim, but this was so good I went straight back to the start again but also because after the first time I was a bit like scratching my head and rubbing my eyes, thinking this is a complete mind F%%k, And I don't mean MIND F&&K in the usual sense of the word, there is definitely some of that going on, but what I mean is that there was a lot to take in and a lot of heavy topics. I am quite an emotionally person,I feel things deeply so certain books I need to read in daylight never at night time because my mind won't shut down, and hand on heart I was on the brink of going insane with this one. I don't say that lightly...there is nothing remotely light about this story and I actually struggled with the content because of how on edge and uncomfortable it made me feel in my own skin. I mean that in a good way because Anne Malcolm writes books that are terrifyingly real and her style of writing is nothing short brilliant. Phenomenal. That on its own deserves more than the 5 measley stars I am allowed to give.
I've never experienced a story that is so emotionally detached or even devoid of emotion that reels me in like this story did. I know that some people will struggle with it because it is one of those where you need to read between the lines and some will find it not easy to do, but if you are like me and you embroil yourself in,so you become buried deep within each line and word, this is for you...if you can handle a lot of very sensitive and very harrowing topics. I will not go into it too much because this is a story that you need to go in blind into and completely submerge yourself in its deep, dark waters. My advice is not to read any reviews until after you have read it yourself, I tend to avoid the reviews, even though I am a blogger, I find that it enriches my reviews more and makes the story so much more engaging. Even after reading this a second time I am still struggling. It was just as brutal on the second round as the first if not more so because I knew what was coming and the twists being just as shattering. I truly believe Anne Malcom has such a clever and conniving way of keeping us the readers at arms length from the characters so that you can see the bigger picture, but at the same time it allows you to see every single string that winds around them throughout the story.
The characters themselves are not easy to gel with but I found that I actually loved it that way because it really reflected to me any way how truly broken and scarred they were, and allowed you to see just how damaged and how deep they were hurting. The deeper into the story you go the more you get to understand how their cogs work. I slowly fell in love with two people that as you are reading you don't think they thought love was possible.
Birds of Paradise is by definition a dark romance. does it need warnings ? YES !!, it needs warnings...well, not that any kind of warning will ever prepare you for it, but WARNINGS ALL THE SAME. I personally love the element of surprise, but others are not hence the warnings I love that adrenaline rush and that emotional choking sensation you get from it. But this story is deep and it's reckless...brutish. It takes no prisoners when it comes to how it obliterates you mind, heart and soul. Everything around me ceased to exist and I just could not put it down.TWICE the tension is overwhelming and I can guarantee that if you are a lover of dark romance this is the book to read this year. It's raw, gritty and dark. It's crazed and it has bite. It'll grab you and never let you go.
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Definitely an eyes wide open read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 3, 2018