Dirty Obsession (Dirty Series, #1)

He came and help a group of them. He soon became all she can think about and he warned her not to. It is now too late and now she is traped. Can she ever escape? Will her life she be the same? See if her life gets better

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The Carini Family is a very powerful, dangerous, and corrupt family who loves violence! A young Nina has become indebted to the Carini family and is forced to sign a 7 year contract to repay her debt. In this extremely dark read, Nina has to take every possible form of abuse from the entire family. She is beaten and raped continuously. She is a pawn in their game. When the father beats her to the point of almost dying, brothers Arlo and Matteo rescue her and nurse her back to health. Nina decides to turn the tables on the family by making both Arlo and Matteo fall in love with her, but she is simply using them to gain information that can be used against the family. However, her heart isn’t immune to these brothers, regardless of their dark and dangerous lifestyle. This is a series so be sure to read them all!

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Hummmm – not really sure how to rate this book. I didn’t “like” it but it was very interesting and well plotted. I am anxious to continue the series and it definitely held my attention. The story is dark, twisted and edgy. The characters are secretive and mysterious and the tension is maintained throughout the story. The character are not likeable and this is not a nice story with an HEA. All the characters are twisted. This is not an easy or a fast read but more of an edge of the seat, how much more can I take type of book. There were some annoying plot holes that interrupted the smooth flow of the story but I was still flipping pages to find out what would happen next. There is more to come. This does have an HFN but it’s absolutely NOT the end. (I voluntarily reviewed an ARC).

Once again this author has done an awesome job of bring us characters that are well developed and engaging and have loads of steamy chemistry throughout the pages. Thumbs up Ms. Miles look forward to more reading from you.

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This book will take you on a wild ride. An obsession turns into a life on the run. Thus book is a mystery wrapped up into a twisted game of revenge, obsession, pain and deceit. It will take you on a journey and when you think it’s over it’s only just begun. Fall in love with Nina, and the world she has fallen into.

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Very dark and with violence

I first discovered Ella Miles’ writing when I started reading the Truth or Lies series and was blown away by her writing style and ability to weave together a complicated and dark story line with interesting and intriguing characters.

With Dirty Obsession Ella Miles has again started a series (let’s call it the Dirty series) that has me hooked. This story is dark and twisted but oh so brilliant and fascinating. The Carini family is definitely something…………what that something is will be up to the reader to decide. All I know is that I am all in for reading the rest of this series.

Now I am also going to warn that there are some really tough and possible trigger scenes in this book – rape and violence against women. So some things I had a hard time reading and had to put this book down more than a few times to go read something light and airy, to cleanse the palate so to say. But I kept coming back to this book to see what would happen next to Gia Carini. She really is a young woman who ends up going from the frying pan into the fire and back again a few times.

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An Engrossing Dark Read! Some Details Are Overly Simplified Or Skirted Altogether, Yet It Captures The Imagination.

Nina Young, twenty-two, is alone in the world save for her childhood best friend Eden, whom people often confuse as her sister. Eden sticks with Nina and supports her despite her numerous troubles with men. Nina’s addictive personality began to manifest as an obsession with finding a cure for her ailing father years ago, then shifted to obsessions with the many men in her life. The latest left her with a restraining order and months of therapy.

Now graduate students studying art history, Nina and Eden attend a one-month study abroad program in Italy. When Nina sees the handsome man set to give her class a tour of a beautiful historic mansion, she is taken aback. He stares at her shamelessly with an emotionless intensity that sets her on fire in spite of herself. She knows that allowing herself to indulge in thoughts of this broody man will undo the progress she has made in therapy, but she cannot help herself.

Arlo Carini, an Oxford grad, runs a multi-billion dollar company. He is from a powerful and mysterious Italian family with a long and rich history. His family is feared and revered. Arlo has so many beautiful women that it surprises him to find that he is helplessly drawn to Nina Young. A relationship is impossible, but he cannot get her out of his mind. It excites him each time he sees her, but her obsession of him is a problem, and he turns her away repeatedly. But Nina is no ordinary woman. She saved him. And Arlo is determined to save her if only she will cooperate.

Nina and Arlo have incredible chemistry! They are truly a perfect match – Arlo’s outrageously mixed signals are as radical as Nina’s obsession is with him. They are quickly obsessed with one another, yet Arlo continues warn her away.

Nina manages to place herself in the center of a deadly Carini family game, pitting Arlo against his sweet but terrifying brother Matteo. But their father poses a threat as well. Without knowing the rules of the game, strong and defiant Nina must develop her own strategy if she hopes to survive the nightmare. And Arlo must deal with the self-loathing that holds him back.

There are several issues which may bother some readers. First, it never feels necessary for Nina to have been saved by Arlo’s family. He could have easily intercepted Clive and Erick, calling bouncers, the police, and an ambulance if needed. It is later insinuated that Clive and Erick come from a dangerous but less powerful family, and again the need for such drastic action is not explained. The seven million dollar price is similarly not explained or justified. Next, early in the story Arlo warns that Matteo is horrible, yet later he says Matteo is a much better man than him. The reader never really does see Matteo’s unique dark tendencies. Another mystery, the mansion is full of activity before Nina runs, but for the remainder of the book there is almost no activity. The women appear to be absent without an explanation. Additionally, given Nina’s memory loss, seven years seems an unreasonabke amount of time for her to believe she is in danger. Rescuing her shouldn’t logically have warranted all the aftermath. She might have considered the contact, if remembered, a scare tactic simply to cure her obsession of Arlo and get rid of her. Finally, there is too much contradiction when the men describe their feelings. They come across as wishy washy, not strong.

This is the first book in the series. It ends with a HFN followed by a cliffhanger. The next book follows Matteo and Eden. If you can stomach ignoring the cliffhanger, this book reads fine as a stand-alone.

This is an engrossing dark read that keeps you on the edge of your seat. It is well-written with only a few minor errors. The POV alternates between Nina, Arlo, and Matteo. The plot is complex. The mystery of the game and the players unfolds enticingly slowly. However, it lacks key details which are overly simplified or skirted altogether, asking the reader to just have faith. It doesn’t all fit perfectly together. There are several loose ends which take time to wrap up at the end, and it unfortunately interferes with the flow. The characters are well-developed, but it would be an improvement if they were portrayed more consistently. That said, even with its limitations, this book captures the imagination and keeps your attention. I rate this book four stars.

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This one just may blow your mind.
This is the first book of Nina, Arlo, and Matteo’s story this is very intense and somewhat weird at times. It is also dark with very raw and powerful moments. It is not a kid’s book! Expect twists and surprises and let’s say this one just may blow your mind. It is not a book for everyone but it is very intriguing and has a good cliffhanger. I did receive a free copy of this book and voluntarily chose to review it.

Exciting, tortured, twisted and unpredictable.
Very good story, with scenes very hard to read, but with an aspect that I really liked, that of a young woman, Nina, who knows that her relations with men are problematic because she saw it as an obsession even if the men concerned do not want to know anything about her, to the point where it destroys both their lives. So when she becomes obsessed with Arlo, she decides to master this obsession that is born, but she does not know Arlo and the young man is much darker than she thinks. Her obsession becomes what guides her, but Arlo never has the expected reaction which disturbs her in her obsessive mechanics in which a part of reason remains.
Soon the story reveals that if Nina is unstable, Arlo and her family are completely disturbed, engaged in a manipulation game that we do not know if Nina will survive or not.
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Manipulation, devastation, desire and addiction are words to describe what happened.
by sewsummore

Nina was a woman obsessed with Arlo, a man who was determined never to have her because having her would cause him to lose everything. But fate has a way of making fools of the best of us, that is what happened and served her up on a plate for us to devour. Arlo saved her life that night, but seven years later he still wasn’t sure he had done the right thing. She was a pawn in an evil man’s game, a slave for seven years, their possession, to torment, rape, abuse and destroy. This book will stay in my memory for a long time, it’s dark pages a testimony to the evil men do when there is no one prepared to prevent it. This book was an like an addiction. the more I read the harder it was to put down and then I didn’t even try. Manipulation, devastation, desire and addiction are words that come to mind when I think about Arlo and Nina’s relationship and in the end it was still not enough. This book is part of a three book series that I am also addicted to.

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