Cora Reilly’s Twisted Cravings Review!

Twisted Cravings

By: Cora Reilly

Release Date: March 13, 2021

Publisher: Cora Reilly

Author Website: https://corareilly.com/

5 Stars

Cora Reilly takes on the youngest Falcone brother in Twisted Cravings for another emotionally charged story in book six of her Camorra Chronicles!

Adamo was always the brother that stood apart. Throughout this series he was the brother who questioned his family and his involvement in it. This was a great exploration of his coming to terms with his role in his family. Ms. Reilly did a great job of showing how Adamo differed from his brothers even as he came to terms with acknowledging and embracing his similar inclinations. Dinara like Adamo stood on the periphery of her world, finding enough to care about to not forsake it but not enough to fully accept it. Two kindred spirits, this pair were sensitive despite their tough exteriors as well as heartbreakingly similar in their brokenness and avenues of escape. Their attraction to each other was well played out and how they evolved as a couple was not only unique but fitting for two characters that struggled to find their place within their family’s expectations.

Both of Adamo and Dinara carried on Ms. Reilly's tradition of hidden depths, what you least expect she confronts leaving both her portrayals and audience reeling from the impact. This writer shows her strength in giving the veneer of normalization to behaviors that break boundaries and while not condoning them applying reasoning that demonstrates why her character's actions make sense in the world they live in. Twisted Cravings was a brutal story not because of the activities you would expect within the mob arena she writes in but other circumstances. How this writer brought truths to light in this story was intense and gave little reprieve even as she managed to be very considerate and sensitive to the serious nature of her story. Even while focused on Adamo and Dinara's story Ms. Reilly adeptly added layers to her already multifaceted supporting characters from previous works.

Cora Reilly is consistently brilliant with her stories as she elevates her antiheroes and finds new ways to give them heroic attributes within the scope of their darkness. Her heroines are not pushovers and are as clever and they are genuine. This writer has created a universe of harsh brutality tempered with glimmers of humanity that pulls her readers in and leaves them constantly on edge and thirsting for more. Cora Reilly's Twisted Cravings came with the expected cuts and bruises this author liberally doles out in her work and like her previous stories in this series it was worth every bit of pain!

*I was given an advanced copy. All opinions expressed are my own. *
*While part of a series this book can be read as a stand alone.*