The time has come to make Thalia mine.
Dreams of the Deadly, an all-new sexy and thrilling dark mafia romance and first book in the Massacred Dreams Duet from USA Today bestselling author Adelaide Forrest, is available now!
They took her from me. Now I’ll take everything from them.
I was never meant to fall in love with her. We were children when they betrothed us—an obligation I didn’t want. Before long, her amber eyes had pierced right through me, transforming my indifference into gentle devotion. Then, they stole her from me—banished me from my home and robbed her of my protection. They damaged her in my absence, and the girl I cared for hardened into a woman I cannot resist. I’ve bided my time, amassing my strength; now none who stand in my way will survive. The time has come to take back my kingdom.
The time has come to make Thalia mine.
Renee’s Five Star Review I received a copy of this book from the publisher/author to review for Stephanie’s Book ReportsDreams of the Deadly is the first book in the Massacred Dreams Series. This is a dark mafia romance and will contain triggers for some readers. You need to heed the warnings in the beginning of the book.
This is the story of Calix and Thalia. There is a prologue to this book, Dreams of the Vengeful. If you have not read that though, Adelaide Forrest has put that in the beginning of this book. If you have read it you can skip it and start with the chapter that stated in the book. I loved that we got to see Thalia as a girl and Calix as a young man even if she was six when he left and she thought that he would never leave her. After all he is the young boy who bought her a flower and chocolates and he even came to her school and made the girls being mean to her stop. He was he first and only friend and he knows what she lives in and he would never leave her. But she doesn’t know everything that happened to him or why he was gone and where he was. Thalia has not had a great life at all and oh my gosh to say he father is a horrible person is a understatement. He is beating her into the daughter he wants her to be for the world they live in. I was so mad sometimes and things only got worse when her mom wasn’t there anymore. I was fuming and my heart broke for her but I could see her learning the things that would help her survive the life she is in and her step mother was just as horrible as he dad. Calix has been banished and has never not one time forgotten the girl with girl and he knows he will get his revenge for he and for him and when the time comes he will be ready to take over his dads place on the council and Thalia will be at his side. I don’t wanna go into more than that. You need to let it all be a surprise. You need to experience the things that these two characters go through and to understand the dynamic of everything going on. This book will be one that will grab your attention and hold it the entire time. Rooting for both the characters and fall in love with them at the same time. Thalia is precious but strong. So strong. She is like a warrior born out of the ashes that are her life. And the things she lived through just really made me want to go pluck he out of the book and put her in a world where she would have peace and anything else she might desire. Calix is an alpha male who likes dominance but man does this guy have a heart of gold where Thalia is concerned. He really keeps his word to her and he treats he like a queen. Heck the man would do anything for her and her never have to life a finger in her life. He is one a mission and I feel sorry for anyone who gets in his way! I have to shut up. I really loved this story the characters and it just kept me so engrossed I didn’t want it to end. I can not wait to see what the next book holds.
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Excerpt
“You saw her as weak all her life, faulty and broken, but she brought you to your knees,” Calix said, wrenching my father’s head back for good measure. “Thalia is the reason you will die alone, with only the bodies of your family to keep you company as you make your way to the afterlife. She was never weak. She terrified you, because you saw what she could become.” Calix pulled the gun from his holster, cocking it for good measure. “Calix,” I said, unsure why I stepped forward. My father was far from my family, far from anything I cared enough to save. “This is the part where Rafael can take you to the car, λουλούδι μου. Otherwise you’ll find out what your father’s brains look like splattered across the altar,” Calix said, pressing the barrel against my father’s forehead. “Wait,” I said, uncertain why my voice seemed to have a mind of its own. I couldn’t process what I was doing, my body moving as if in a daze as I closed the remaining gap between us. I squatted down, wrapping a trembling hand around the cane that my father had used to beat Lydia. The same one that had tormented me for years, breaking my skin open at his order. The wood was slick with blood, forcing me to wrap a second hand around the base as I spun on my heel back to face my father. Calix’s eyes tracked over me as I spread my legs to shoulder-width, raising the cane over my right shoulder like a baseball bat. The breath wheezed in my lungs, torn from the darkest part of me that wanted my father—no, Origen’s—blood as payment. It might have been Lydia who’d wielded the cane in more recent years, but my father had been the one to scar me. My father had been the one to order my beatings when he couldn’t be bothered to give them himself. As much as I hated Lydia, she’d been another victim of the life designed to make us obedient. I swung the cane, the whistle of air making my father’s head jerk as Calix pulled the gun away in the same moment. The wood clapped against the back of my father’s neck, his entire body sprawling forward as the wood vibrated in my hands. They throbbed in tune with the vibrations, an ache spreading up my wrists and to my elbows as I raised it again. Calix raised a brow at me as my father fell forward, landing face-first on the floor slickened by blood. He pushed up to his hands and knees in a daze, his body as I raised the cane over my head. I brought it down over and over again with a shrill scream, all the force in my body going into the movements. The wood split as it crashed against his spine a final time, splintering down the center as he flopped onto his stomach and didn’t move. I panted for breath as I stared down at his unmoving body, wondering if I’d killed him or only knocked him out. I didn’t know which I preferred, thinking I’d been the one to end him, or that I’d be able to move forward without that stain on my conscience. My fingers shook as I gripped the cane tighter, the hand that came down on my shoulder startling me into motion. I spun, swinging what remained of the cane through the air. Calix caught it a breath from the side of his neck, gripping it tightly as he raised an eyebrow at me in question. “Don’t touch me,” I hissed. My breath continued to come in wheezes, hard fought and hard won as I tried to pull the cane free from his grip. He raised his other hand slowly, grasping my fingers and peeling them off the wooden shaft one by one. “Let it go, λουλούδι μου,” he murmured, his voice soft despite the fact that I’d nearly struck him with enough force to truly harm him. I couldn’t decide if I would have regretted it. When he’d finally pulled all my fingers off the cane, he took it from my hand, twisting it around so that the sharp, broken point pointed down. He never took his eyes off of mine as he drove it down into my father’s back, the thick squelching sound filling the room as he twisted it in the older man’s body. The space where my father’s heart might have been, had he possessed one, was nothing but a gaping hole by the time Calix pulled the broken cane free and tossed it to the side. “Time to go home, Little One,” he said.
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