One powerful serial killer. One visceral connection.One deadly secret that should have stayed buried.Men like Ethan Reilly should never fall in love. Dark, enigmatic and dangerous, Ethan is the perfect predator until he meets Lily Simpson, a woman passionate enough to placate him and strong enough to surrender to him. For a while Lily’s love is enough. But the darkness inside Ethan is too … darkness inside Ethan is too powerful to contain, and soon it spills into their burgeoning love affair. As he wrestles with his demons, Ethan must come to terms with who he really is, but if he does, what happens to Lily? Can any love be strong enough to survive a past as terrible as Ethan’s? And what kind of future can they forge from the ashes of his awful admission?
Read Flawed, a Dark Necessities prequel, and discover the making of not one, but two monsters.
This book contains dark and twisted scenes. You have been warned…
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The preface really got me hooked on this book. I am very curious to see how there relationship will go from where it is now to that moment in the preface. If you liked the other dark necessities series you will like this book. It is dark but it’s not to dark as a lot of the things that make it a “dark” book are not described in detail. This book is written from lily and Ethan’s point of view which I love since we get to know what both of the main characters are feeling about everything. There a quite a few sex scenes that last quite a while in normal Felecity Brandon style. One thing that is different about these books is the supernatural element of mind reading. It only bothered me when Ethan wouldn’t let Lily deal with her own thoughts alone. All in all I’m looking forward to reading the next one.
This was an interesting read. I think between the world building and introduction of the characters it started off slower. But once the characters meet and start interacting it really starts picking up.
I have to admit it is a dark book, but i was expecting a bit darker. The author starts off in the lighter area of dark, then ends up going darker. So I got the darker I was expecting more towards the end. But I’m still good with that because I feel the next book is going to be even more of the dark I want.
This book ends on a cliffhanger with things very much up in the air. I can’t wait to find out what happens next!
I love the writing style of Felicity Brandon but I don’t think I was prepared for a story like this. Intense, gritty and very, very dark. Ethan is someone I don’t think I’ve read in any other story before and I’m still in limbo as to if I like him or not. Lily brought out emotions in me that were mixed also. I honestly can’t say a whole lot because I don’t want to give the story away but man……this book had me sucked right in from the first, even though I don’t normally read these stories! Ms. Brandon just has a way of dragging you right in. There is a cliffhanger but I’m pretty sure that the next book isn’t that far off so I will wait and see if this couple grows on me!!
Dark, that’s the best way to describe this story. Ethan is a man that in the real world, no one would want in their life unless something was wrong with them. However, you can’t help to be drawn towards him and his story. I really am not sure how I feel about this story and the characters even though Felicity’s writing is great!
This book…wow, it really threw me, not what I expected at all. This was such a unique and well-written story! Flawed is a prequel to the Dark Necessities trilogy of Taken, Tamed and Entwined, written by Felicity Brandon, one of my favorite authors. Her books never disappoint.
This is the story of Ethan and Lily, and it is quite a dark story. Be prepared. I like dark romances and this one was right up my alley. I don’t want to give too many details (read the blurb for those) as I had little when I started the book, and that’s what made reading it such a pleasure. Ethan, one of the darkest anti-heroes I’ve encountered in quite a while, enters into the innocent and protected life of Lily. Both are passionately drawn to each other.
There are aspects to Ethan and Lily that are quite surprising, dark, frightening, mysterious and intriguing. Since I knew little of the plot before I read this, the story unfolded in a truly marvelous fashion. I actually lost track of the passage of time while I read it, that’s how deeply it drew me in. And there’s another one coming as it ended on a bit of a cliffhanger. I can wait. Stories like these are worth waiting for. Highly recommended.
Well it became very clear that the apple (Connor) didn’t fall far from the tree (Ethan)
Ms Brandon had me sobbing with the prologue, even though I should probably hate Ethan. It was a massively powerful start to the book and the pace and darkness didn’t let up from there. Flawed is such a perfect title and can apply to so many aspects of this tale, the most obvious of which is Ethan, but it could just as easily refer to Lily and their relationship.
Despite knowing how soulless Ethan is, how dangerous and just so very wrong, I couldn’t help but find him hot. I didn’t always like him, Lily was a lot more forgiving than I would have been, but he was a massively attractive anti-hero/sociopath. Speaking of Lily I adored her, especially with how unafraid she was to explore her burgeoning sexuality and her submissive desires. Her battles and struggles were so believable and the way she stood up to Ethan when he pushed too far was perfect.
This is steamy hot, darkly depraved and slightly scary in equal measures. I loved every damn second of reading about Ethan, Lily and their unusual relationship. There is a slight paranormal element to the book – Ethan and Lily ‘meet’ in their dreams, with Ethan also able to read her mind. As an avid reader of fantasy, sci-fi and other paranormal stories this was fine by me, I also felt the reasoning behind it was well constructed. I really do encourage you to set your inhibitions and preconceptions aside for this one.
I knew I was getting towards the climax of the story, but that ending seemingly came out of nowhere. It was both unexpected and yet simultaneously it was also the only possible outcome. I was left reeling and am massively curious as to how the story will continue in book #2. Particularly as Lily still isn’t yet aware of Jody.
This is just as good as the Dark Necessities trilogy, dark and edgy but in its own unique way. If you love a dark story then I definitely recommend this one to you.
WOW!!! This was amazingly well written and sucks you right into the crazy of Ethan Reilly an intense predator with amazing powers like I have never read before and he is one to fear and he has his sights on Lily who is much younger and very easily the connection alone is intense and what he introduces her to starting in dreams which was fascinating then in the now she is introduced to a whole new world of HOT!!!! Im not sure yet what to think of either one of them and that makes for a great story with the different personalities, all I know is I love it and Im craving more needing to know.
In this trilogy we go back in time and meet Connor parents Ethan and Lily. And we the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. I didn’t feel this book was very dark, but I have a feeling that will change in the next book.
Ethan is a hunter and when he sees Lily, she knows she is the one for him. Ethan knows who he is and he doesn’t make excuses for it. That is just the way he is. he is darkness, but Lily is all light.
I loved how the author showed the internal struggles and emotions of Lily. She is very young and innocent and the feelings that Ethan ignites in her and the things he makes her do, make her confused and a bit ashamed. Who is this Lily.That makes the characters real and layered.
I look forward to reading the second book and find out what happens.
This was dark and twisted just like we were warned. There were a few times I had to take a break in the reading but I was always drawn back. I can’t say I ‘enjoyed’ the story, but I can say I will remember it. It was very well written and you find yourself absorbed and flying thru the pages.
Well this book is about monters, the ones who appear as normal, until they are not. Who blend in with their surroundings like a chameleon until their true colors show, in red, in black and blue and in the darkest of dark the final color of death. They feed of fear, intimidation, torture, control, pain and false promises. But some monsters feed of the light, and the pure in people, with manipulation and emotion and promises of love, or what they believe to be love.
Ethan is one of these monsters. Controlled by compulsions he in turn controls others with deadley force and the ability to read minds. A master apex predator his strike is swift and deadly.
But he in turn is compelled by a vision of Lily, but these are different and so is Lily. Captivated by each other they are pulled into a relationship through paranormal means. A relationship of control, discipline, bondage and incredible heat, rewards and punishment.
Will Lily pull Ethan into the light and end his reign of death? Or will Ethan bring her over into the dark and create another monster to rule at his side? The journey has just begun.
Read and find out!
This one is actually too twisted for me. Not continuing on.