Review: Great Dark Romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 10, 2014
Hope Restrained By M.S. Willis is the second book in the Estate Series.  I was looking forward to reading this book because I was intrigued by Xander in the first book.  I loved the continuation of this series in book two.  It wasn’t too long ago when I got to delve into the first book Madeline Abducted.  I was so glad that the time between the books wasn’t very long.  If you read the first book in the series you know that this story takes a dark path.  You may hear people tell you that it’s not for the faint of heart, that would be a correct assumption.  Although it is a darker romance, it still is a romance.  I enjoyed this darker book as much as the first, maybe even more.  The story took a different turn then I expected.  It was filled with action, suspense, mystery, and of course my favorite passion.  A rougher take on the passion but so very good, indeed.Hope is a trained assassin with one of the Estate’s rival crime networks.  She wants nothing to do with the Estate until it takes her sister.  Her mission in order to get her sister back is to kill the head of the Estate Aaron Carmichael.  She attempts to do that very thing, until her attack is thwarted by Aaron’s right hand man Xander.  Now Xander is determined to see who sent hope and what exactly she’s after.  Hope doesn’t make it easy.  She is trained not to talk.  The only way Xander can get what he wants is to break her.  His plans are to enslave her.  He does just that but in the end who enslaves who?Hope and Xander were two of a kind.  They were matched physically and mentally.  While Xander grew up in the Estate he doesn’t seem to be tainted as bad as Aaron was.  I think there was different kind of pressure placed on Xander in this book.  He was in charge of protecting Aaron and Maddy.  He also was in charge of figuring out what the heck is going on in the Estate.  It was exciting to watch the mystery unfold and I wasn’t shocked at the outcome, but the build up to the answer was pretty intense.  I have to say I enjoyed seeing the flashbacks and getting to know the characters and how they became the people they were.  I felt like I was experiencing a pretty epic history lesson while reading this book.  I can’t wait to see where the story will lead us.  I’m definitely on board for book three.heartdividerPost