Review: Enter a world of forbidden love with a taboo subject that makes you question everything you know about love.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 4, 2013
This review contains spoilers.Aquilla "Quill" Chavez always knew she didn't belong with her family. While her father and brother, Julius where dark haired and dark skin, Quill is blond with fair skin. She always knew they weren't blood related, but had assumed her father adopted her because he took her out of a bad situation. Julius raised Quill, and she idolized him. He was her protector and caregiver, but as Quill got older the lines between protector and lover became blurred.Jettie Woodruff does not write your ordinary love story. As with her last book, there are two parts to this story; Quill's life with Julius and her father, Romano and her life with her biological family.Quill grew up in the lap of luxury. Growing up on small islands in large mansions was all she knew. She had private tutors, bodyguards, and anything she could ask for. Her father and Julius trained women who were willing to have three month contract with very wealthy men as submissive/sex slave for a large amount of money. Quill and Julius try to stay away from each other as their growing attraction blossoms, but they're at each other's throat constantly because they keep fighting their feelings.Quill is constantly questioning her role in the family. Logically she knows she is different, but Romano and Julius is all she's ever known. As Quill and Julius start an affair, she finally feels as if she belongs. Julius is her world and always has been. Julius starts to refer to Romano as HIS father, because he knows Quill is not biologically theirs, and Quill knows it too.One day her life is shattered as a woman Julius was training turned out to be an FBI agent. Seri came in undercover to unveil the Chavaz' illegal business. With her world torn apart, Seri believes Quill can tell them where Julius has disappeared to. With no one to take care of her, Quill latches on to Seri. Seri discovers that Quill is a missing girl named Shelby who vanished when she was 3-years-old. Assigned to take Quill home to her biological family, and stay with her until she can tell the FBI where Julius is, Seri and Quill develop an unconventional friendship. Seri represents the life Quill has always known.As Quill moves to Connecticut to be with her parents and sister, Quill has to adjust to a whole new life. She refuses to bond with her mother and sister. She pines for Julius and resents her new life. The only thing she clings to is Seri, who gives her a sense of security; but Seri doesn't take any shit from Quill. She tells her when she's being a bitch, and encourages her to stop feeling sorry for herself. The adjustment is a difficult one. Her parents who have since divorced since her kidnapping, expect her to be Shelby-the little girl they lost.Before Quill was shipped off to her parents in the U.S., Quill switched her laptop with Julius'. She discovers letters he's written to her, explaining her kidnapping, the quilt he feels for not doing anything about it when he was a little boy, and his growing love for her. This makes her adjustment with her new family more difficult, because she's never felt more close to Julius, yet so far removed from him. It makes bonding with her new family that much more difficult for her.Just as she's starting to accept her new life after building a wall for so long, Quill's life is thrown upside down again. Jettie has a way of writing that makes you question whose side you're really on. She creates this world that makes you question your own morals. Whose side do you belong to? Is this right? Should I be feeling this way? She makes you question the journey you're on.While I realize this book will not be for everyone, I was sucked into Quill's journey immediately. Logically Julius and Quill don't belong together, but emotionally you just want them to have a HEA. It's difficult not to blur the lines between right versus wrong. Enter a world of forbidden love with a taboo subject that makes you question everything you know about love.