Kresley Cole

If You Deceive (The MacCarrick Brothers, Book 3)

Navya 

Lover of Romance 

Ethan, was once handsome as sin until a nobleman had him tortured and scarred, which would change his life, and Ethan spent years feeling a lust for revenge. Now ten years later, he finds a beauty who enchants him and spending a magical night with her, he knows she could definitely break through the ice around his heart, until he finds out who she really is, the daughter of the nobleman that ordered his scarring, and has a plan for revenge, to make her fall for him, marry her and then cast her away from him in the end. Only things never go as planned when the heart is involved, and the more he goes after his plan, he starts to realize that they are perfect each other and he would rather cut his own face again over hurting her again...If You Deceive is the third in the MacCarrick series, and I have read a book or two from this author but they were average liked reads, so I haven't read much from her since, but when I read a really good review of If You Deceive I knew I had to give her historical's a chance, and I think I just loved this one and I am much looking forward to reading the rest in the series. I loved how there were different twists and turns throughout the story that continued to surprise me at every turn....the passion and heat between Madeleine and Ethan was body tingling, and the fast paced action kept me in suspense. The writing in If You Deceive was tantalizing and drew the reader into her story with a superb talent that I hadn't experienced from this author...looking forward to reading more from her!! A Splendid Read!!

My first read of 2022 and I absolutely loved it! 

“𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐚 𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐥?” 𝐀𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐝, 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝, “𝐖𝐡𝐲?” 
𝑆𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑒, 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑖𝑚.

☆ Historical Age Gap romance

Ethan is the dark and dangerous one who has only one thing on his mind, ie revenge. Even though the blurb pretty much tells us the storyline, there were more than that one reason and chance for Maddy to leave Ethan but the author very smoothly bought them back together. The romance, humour, naivety, street smartness, guilt and hardship, everything was perfectly mentioned. 

Maddy is total sunshine for Ethan and exactly what he needs (even though he didn't know it).

If You Deceive (The MacCarrick Brothers, Book 3)

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