Title: The Time is Now
Series: Beautifully Brutal Series
Author: Emma Luna
Genre: Dark Contemporary Romance/Mafia Romance
Tropes: Best Friends to Enemies to Lovers/Forbidden Romance
Release Date: June 1, 2023
★★★★★ Review from Anna’s Bookshelf – “The Time Is Now is another spectacular novel from one of my all time favorite dark romance authors. Her exceptional storytelling with interesting characters, a unique plot, and fast- paced action & suspense ensnared my attention and kept me on tenterhooks under the very end!”
★★★★★ Goodreads Review – “This was action packed, suspenseful, dramatic, and chemistry filled. A thrilling read with all the right elements. I love this series.”
Growing up as the youngest Doughty meant missing out on a normal life.I didn’t want the life I was dealt, but I also felt I had no choice except to embrace my legacy. My family had targets placed on their backs, simply because of our name and the power we held, so I knew I had to be ready for anything that came my way.
Being sent to boarding school was a way to protect me—and get me away from the very life I didn’t want—but it also brought me something else.
Shane.
My brothers took him in, and I chased away the nightmares that came with his tortured past, ignoring the burning desire I knew was there, because I didn’t want to ruin our fast-found friendship.
Now though? He’s severed the very bond I tried so hard to protect in the most brutal betrayal.
He went from being my best friend to my enemy, and now I want answers.
Renee’s Five Star Review
I received a copy of this book from the publisher/author to review for Stephanie’s Book Reports.
This is a dark Irish Mafia romance and the fourth book in the Beautifully Brutal Series. This is the story of Shane and Ryleigh. Shane is the youngest of the Doughty family and that meant that she was never going to have the life that she wanted ever. Certain things come along with being a Doughty. Power and enemies. Knowing that she knew that she had to be prepared for anything that came her way. However she was sent to boarding school as a way to protect her but it also meant that she was able to see what life was like, instead of being in the thick of the life she never wanted. Life at boarding school was great and she also found someone really unexpected there. Shane. Shane has a past that is the thing of nightmares and while her brother took him in she was there for him to chase away the nightmares. She is really fighting her feelings for him the entire time as she doesn’t want to do anything that would ruin their friendship. However he has really destroyed their friendship by a brutal betrayal. Now he has gone from being her very best friend to her number one enemy and she wants answers.
This book is so good. When you pick it up you will not want to lay it down. I loved Ryleigh and Shane and love watching their bond grow until it didn’t. Then I might have wanted to smack him around a little for really shattering Ryleigh. I can’t say much more about this book as I am afraid I will give something away. This is a really great read and one you do not want to miss.
This book is so good. When you pick it up you will not want to lay it down. I loved Ryleigh and Shane and love watching their bond grow until it didn’t. Then I might have wanted to smack him around a little for really shattering Ryleigh. I can’t say much more about this book as I am afraid I will give something away. This is a really great read and one you do not want to miss.
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The Time is Now is part of an Interconnected series (Book 6 of 😎, and it’s advisable that you read the main books in the series in order as they feature connecting plots.
Main books reading order:
1. Black Wedding
2. Trust In Me
3. Fighting To Be Free
4. The Time Is Now
Please note – Dangerously Deceptive and The Ties We Break are prequels that do not have to be read to follow the main plot. If you want to read them in order, please see series page for more details: https://geni.us/BB-Series
Emma Luna is a USA Today Bestselling dark romance author from the UK. In a previous life she was a Midwife and a Lecturer, but now she listens to the voices in her head and puts pen to paper to bring their stories to life. In her spare time, when she should be sleeping, she also loves to edit, proofread, and format books for other amazing authors.
Emma’s books are dark, dangerous, and devilishly sexy. She loves writing about strong, feisty, but underestimated women, and the cocky, dirty-mouthed men they bring to their knees.
When Emma isn’t writing, promoting, or editing books she can be found napping, colouring in adult colouring books, and collecting novelty notebooks. She also enjoys coffee and gossiping with her mum, playing or having hugs with her gorgeous nephew, who is the light of her life, stealing her parents dog Hector, and curling up on the sofa to watch a film with Mr Luna. Oh and for those of you that don’t know, Emma is a hardcore Harry Potter fan—Team Ravenclaw!!
Thank you for taking a chance on a crazy Brit and the voices inside her head. That makes you a true LUNAtic now too!
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