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Beauty's Punishment (Sleeping Beauty, #2)
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This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty resumes Beauty's explicit, teasing exploration of the...
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Behind the Iron Cross
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In the hedonistic wonderland of Cabaret-era Berlin… …where money can buy you anything you...
Historical Romance
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The Princess of Draga (Draga Court #1)
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Will Princess Adelina sacrifice everything for the chance at love? In a galaxy far from ours, in...
3 stars space opera slow burner fantasy/sci-fi
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The Kindness of Enemies
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"Natasha lives a lonely life, adrift in Scotland and town between two identities. Born into a...
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Always(Always series book #1)
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Josie: Forbidden love… I guess that’s what you’d call what we have. But to me, it’s just...
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The Deep Blue Sea: 2016
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Terence Rattigan's devastating masterpiece, a classic study of forbidden love, suppressed desire and...
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Friendly Fire
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From the author of Richard and Judy bestseller 'Notes from an Exhibition' a tale of youthful...
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Before the Crown
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Before the crown there was a love story… Windsor Castle, 1943 As war rages across the world,...
Forbidden is a about a dysfunctional family in turmoil. The father left years ago and the mother of 5 children is never home! She is either out getting drunk or with her new boyfriend. Maya and Lochan are the eldest of the 5 children and had to take it upon themselves to keep the family afloat and to make sure social services never find out. Forbidden is about the relationship between Maya and Lochan and how it becomes more than brotherly sisterly love. They know it’s wrong but it feels so right.
I loved this book with all my heart, from the start you get a feeling that Maya and Lochan are not normal brother and sister. They have this connection, it feels like they are the mother and father of the 3 little’s, the way they manage everything from cooking,shopping,homework etc etc. They have been put in this impossible situation due to their mothers neglect.
All the characters are amazing, I could feel the utter despair that Lochan was going through, how he was torn between his feelings and what was socially acceptable. He would do anything for all of his family, he was smart and caring. Stress, taking on a role as father and loving his sister takes a toll on his mental health and starts having panic attacks. Maya was a great character but she wasn’t as vigilant as Lochan.
My feels were all over the place with this book, there is a point in the book where I had to stop reading (This has never happened to me before) I didn’t know if I could go on, it was so intense! My heart was in my mouth! The love in this book didn’t feel wrong and it’s not romaticizing incest, it’s just these children were put in this situation and they were living the role of mother and father in every possible way.
I have never read a book about incest before, it was extremely well written and I manged to read it very quickly despite it being 432 pages long. The book is from dual perspective alternating from Lochan and Maya, so you get an idea of what about both of them are thinking and feeling. No stone was left unturned. I am usually wary about reading books that have a lot of hype surrounding them but this is worth all the hype and more. If you have not read this yet, then you need to grab yourself a copy you won’t regret it.
Has anyone read other works by Tabitha Sazuma, are they as good as Forbidden?
I rated this 5 out of 5 stars.
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Gabriel's Inferno
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Enigmatic and sexy, Professor Gabriel Emerson is a well respected Dante specialist by day, but by...
romance contemporary Italy Professor student