Convict by A. Zavarelli
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

WOW! What an incredible intro to a new author!!!

Birdie Blue was my fucking nightmare and salvation wrapped up into one terrifying package. She’d left her mark on me, branding it into my rusted up broken-down heart. …Good or bad, right or wrong, she was the other half of my soul that I’d always known was missing.

I have been wanting to get my hands on a book by A. Zavarelli for a while now because I stalk her on social media and her stories seem very compelling. But a crazy busy blog schedule has made that impossible… Until Convict and OMG!!! WOW… Convict was quite the introduction to a new author. I am still processing this one because DAMN! this book was a rollercoaster of dark & deliciously sexy.

For over a year, I’d dissected Birdie’s every move in an effort to understand her. But in the process, she burrowed her way inside my head, contaminating all my thoughts. Now she was in my space. My lungs. On my flesh. I breathed her in, I felt her everywhere. Her scent, her silky skin, her butterscotch hair. She was driving me goddamned crazy and it had only been a day. One motherfucking day.

As a new reader, I can tell you even though Convict is the second book in the Sin City Salvation series, it’s written as a standalone. I am now dying to get my hands on Confess, the first book in the series. I love so much about Convict and I’ll likely miss something in this review but regardless, this was an outstanding read. This age gap, enemies to lovers, romance is a dual POV story that’s going to suck you straight into Birdie and Ace’s turbulent tale. It’s truly easy to get lost in Convict as its fairly fast-paced and unpredictable. I was truly expecting it to take a different direction from the story the author told, and I loved the variation and volatility of the book. It was perfect for the storyline!!! And the seXXXy was the have your batteries charged or your spouse on standby hawt… shew I am positive a cold shower wouldn’t be enough!!! 😉

Gone was the man from the night before who’d fucked me like he wanted to crawl inside my soul and never leave. Today, he was an animal, and his only intent was to take.

Readers will quickly become immersed in a dark, gritty, and intensely sexy story about two very broken characters. The jagged edges and individualities A. Zavarelli penned create a complex puzzle that is only whole when you merge Birdie and Ace. They just fit! Ace had a traumatic and disturbing past that hardened the man, and this rigid, OCD structured, quiet man quickly drew me in. I wanted to unravel him as Birdie did. His loyalty is absolute. Totally swoon-worthy! Birdie is nothing like I expected either. She’s broken in her own ways and while she does things with a purpose, she still puts herself in danger again and again until someone has to step in, and step up, to protect her from herself!

“She’d never been treated right. She’d never known love. Her whole life was a desolate landscape of one user after another.”

Convict might contain triggers for some as the content isn’t rainbows and unicorns romance. You should be a fan of dark romance if you’re considering undertaking this one, but if you are a dark romance fan, you simply must grab this book immediately. On the spectrum from lightly dark (0), to a true dark romance (10), I would tell you this one is 4 but damn. what. a. ride!!! I can’t wait to read more by this author and I highly recommend Convict!

She was too pure for a devil like me. I would corrupt her. Taint her. Ruin her. Depravity was the only way to describe this fixation.
She could never be mine.

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