Review: Bittersweet  Love!!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 13, 2013
I really enjoyed that author Eva Marquez finally gave us Tom's side of the story in Tainted Love. We're given more insight into Isabel and Tom by hearing from both their points of view and also a few chapters from Isabel's brother, Tony. I absolutely love Tom. Everything we knew about him in Sweetest Taboo is brought into light of who he really is as a person, and his marriage, as we see his thoughts and feelings. I truly fell in love with him. Now with understanding of who Tom is and seeing what kind of marriage he had with his wife, I have to say that Isabel frustrated me some in this book. Though I still gave her credit for having to learning from life's lessons. In the first book, Isabel was a smart girl and mature beyond her years, but wow, did she ever act flaky in this one. I couldn't believe what she did. But both Isabel and Tom had trust issues going on and with no commutation between them, this was definitely going to cause problems in their relationship.Isabel is almost twenty and her freshman year of college is behind her, and she's been separated from Tom for a year. She comes home for the summer, to which she spends with Tom. They work out their problems and make plans to finally be together. But Isabel is not telling Tom everything while she was away at college, and when she goes back to college, Isabel gets herself into a bad situation because of her unfaithfulness and lust.Tainted Love is a heartbreaker for me because of my feelings for Tom, and with the cliffhanger ending, it left me really upset with Isabel. But I can't wait for the final book in the Sweetest Taboo series because I really want these two to get it right after all the things that have gone wrong. I recommend Tainted Love as a bittersweet story that will capture your heart for a forbidden love.