Unraveling Chaos

unraveling the chaos that are my thoughts

Safe in Clua

Summary

Laia
If you ever leave me, you’d better pray to God I don’t find you.

Words that have woken me up in the night more times than I care to remember this last year.

Running from your past isn’t much fun, running from a past that has every intention of causing you actual bodily harm if it ever finds you? Really not fun.

Even if it has led me to Clua, the most picture-perfect little island I’ve ever seen.

I’ve never had a problem blending in before. Fading into the background has never been an issue. Until now. Here. Where the universe’s whole energy seems to be geared towards throwing me into the path of, I’m not gonna lie, possibly the most ruggedly handsome stranger I’ve ever had the pleasure of nearly plastering to a road.

Accidentally, I swear.

Felix
Widower.

It’s what people see when they look at me. It’s what I see when I look in the mirror.

I had it all and it was taken from me. No way to make it better. No way to ever get it back. Most days I’ve come to terms with it. Most days I can block it out or fall into women that look like her. Women I can pretend are her for just a fraction of time.

Until Laia.

Until she crashed into my life and just kept on crashing. She’s nervous, and wary, and about as open to being with me as I am to being with her even if she does kiss me like she means it every, single time.

The best thing about her though—the thing I can’t seem to make myself walk away from? She doesn’t know enough about my past to look at me like I’m broken.

But that’s the thing about pasts … they always catch up with you in the end.

Review

“Losing people you love doesn’t just leave its mark, it changes everything about you.”

4.5 Stars ⭐️ Safe in Clua deals with tough subjects, such as grief and trauma. As well as contains some scenes that may be upsetting to some readers about domestic violence. There is a trigger warning in the beginning. But Safe in Clua is more than that. If that doesn’t bother you, I would recommend reading it. It’s real and emotional, and there is a lot that someone may be able to resonate with in one way or another.

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The Billionaire’s Promise

Release Date: April 5, 2022

Summary

The final book of The Billionaire’s Mask Series is here…

From the moment I met Brandon Lucien, I found a love of epic proportions. But he was also a damaged soul. He was insecure, burned by his past, and a man driven by revenge.

Yet, I saw the beauty of his heart and the relentless need to survive. I am so deeply and madly in love with him that I need him like the heart beating in my chest.

Brandon has overcome his demons, but mine still haunts me. The shadows of my past are waiting to shatter my dreams of a beautiful future.

We promised to defy all odds, stand against every risk, and face our unknown future together. I trust him with my life, but do I trust myself? I saved Brandon from his misery once, but can he save me from mine?

Review

Trying to forget my past wasn’t the real escape. It was acceptance.

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The Empress

Summary

There is a reason that the powerful get more powerful. Something that they don’t talk about – or acknowledge. Sure you can get ahead the traditional way – by stomping on those beneath you to get to the top. By being ruthless and cut throat.

But you can also employ a Witch. Someone who will read cards for you in a way that gives you an edge over your competitors, cast spells for you so that your desired outcomes are seamless.

The Tarot Club is exactly this, only this time Corinne’s client is the Bratva – the Russian Mob, and she suddenly finds herself reading cards to determine who should live and who should die by their hands.

And Dimitri is the man who will lead the Bratva into a new era. But does Corinne want to stick around and be part of that? Will she stay as their Empress?

The first book in a duet in the Tarot Club series is set to keep you on the edge of your seat gasping for more.

Review

Everyone has their secrets. Do we ever truly know someone when we can’t ever truly know ourselves?

Witches. Bratva. Demons. Oh my! Erin Mc Luckie Moya can take popular tropes/concepts and make them into something unique. The Empress is a paranormal romance between a witch and someone in the Bratva (similar to the mafia). Mixing the old with the new to make something more powerful.

The first time I read The Empress, I thought I didn’t like it as much as I did. I came out of it thinking that I prefer Erin’s other series, the Hellhound MC, more. But, after rereading both Catching Cole and The Empress, I don’t know what to think.

In reality, the first time I read The Empress in October, I seemed to have highlighted a lot of it. However, I didn’t realize that was the case until I reread The Empress in February. Adding more highlights, making it look like a coloring book.

After being judged and dismissed my entire life, I tried not to judge others.

I didn’t think I would relate to a character from the first line. Although my life is not the same, I can still draw parallels between Corrine and myself. She’s both who I am and who I want to be.

People are not just one thing but comprised of multiple layers. Corrine doesn’t fit in one world but has one foot in one and one in another. Like most people, Corrine just wanted to belong. So when her own family didn’t understand her, she sought out a family that would, a chosen family of her own.

Dimitri is an ass. It took some time, but I warmed up to him. I ended up loving Dimitri by the time The Empress was over, and you probably will too.

When Corinne and Dimitri met, they didn’t like each other. He didn’t believe her. But they’re more alike than they realized. Usually, I’m not one for slow burns, but I understand there is a time and place. And every once and a while, I don’t mind them. That being said, The Empress was a slow burn, but I was too invested to even realize.

Without realizing it, The Empress had impacted me. It made me more open to the idea of getting tarot cards. Because one month later, in November, I bought my first deck, and it went downhill from there. At this point, I’m more collecting than using, but I want to learn it.
I watched readings and tarot tube long before reading The Empress, but I think it was the catalyst. The second time around made me want to learn even more. I upped my original review from 4 stars to 5 stars solely because it stuck with me, and I can’t stop thinking about it. I’m slowly making my way reading all of Erin Mc Luckie’s works. And I’m invested in what I’ve read so far.

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