Especially when your behaviour causes trauma in other people. Your trauma does not excuse your behaviour towards other people. Since he is such a fucking asshole throughout the whole book, now that you know what has happened to him you should automatically feel sorry for him. What bugs me is that I have a feeling that all of this has been put in his backstory just to justify his current behavior. I’m not going to spoil you, but you should definitely look into the trigger warnings for this book! We have all types of violence and neglect. His childhood was filled with every type of fucked up. And I mean like deep, heart-wrenching, bone-breaking problems. Speaking of our favourite scary boy, he has problems. What else is there to say? That’s all folks! How can you, without at least giggling scream that name during sex? Also, let’s get past the friends thing and move into romance territory. What bugs me is the fact that he probably one day told his friends to call him Vicious and they just did? How did he make them? Was he like really scary? Wow, if one of my friends tried to pull something like that off I would break down laughing and most certainly make fun of them forever. – dubbed Vicious for his cold, ruthless behaviour” But, come on… I would actually prefer if Vicious was him name not his nickname. And I’m fine with that, most of the time. They always have powerful and daunting names to showcase their masculinity while at the same time giving a contrast to how they’re acting with their love interest.

I mean, I get the whole deal with male names in erotica and romance books. I hope I’m not the only one bewildered with the choice Shen made with the name Vicious! What? Girl… were you ill? Let’s first address the elephant in the room. Well, well, well… you should now prepare yourself because I am about to rip this book a new one. Then she runs into Vicious and everything changes.

Ten years later, Emilia is living in New York with her sister. She was fascinated by him even though he didn’t deserve it. From the moment Vicious first saw Emilia he ruthlessly bullied her. They met at the start of their senior year of high school when Emilia’s family moved to Todos Santos. It follows a story of Emilia LeBlanc whose parents were servants in the house of Baron Spencer aka Vicious.

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