Unhinged
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4.7 • 30 Ratings
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Adam Mulvaney lives a double life. By day, he's the spoiled youngest son of an eccentric billionaire. By night, he's an unrepentant killer, one of seven psychopaths raised to right the wrongs of a justice system that keeps failing.
Noah Holt has spent years dreaming of vengeance for the death of his father, but when faced with his killer, he learns a daunting truth he can't escape. His father was a monster.
Unable to ignore his own surfacing memories, Noah embarks on a quest to find the truth about his childhood with the help of an unlikely ally: the very person who murdered his father. Since their confrontation, Adam is obsessed with Noah, and he wants to help him uncover the answers he seeks, however dark they may be.
The two share a mutual attraction, but, deep down, Noah knows Adam's not like other boys. Adam can't love. He wasn't born that way. But he refuses to let Noah go, and Noah's not sure he wants him to.
Can Adam prove to Noah that passion, power, and protection are just as good as love?
Unhinged is a fast-paced, roller coaster ride of a romance with an HEA and no cliffhangers. It features a dirty-talking, possessive psychopath and a sweet cinnamon roll of a boy with Daddy issues and a core of steel. There's gratuitous violence, very dark humor, enough steam to fog up a hundred car windows, and something a lot like love. This is book one in the Necessary Evils series. Each book follows a different couple.
Customer Reviews
My favorite series starter.
Adam and Noah are my current obsession.
I love the premise of this series, and this was a wonderful introduction to it all (and to Onley James, for me). I originally listened to the audiobook, and Liam DiCosimo had me in love, but I also have since sat down to read the print version and enjoyed it just as much.
Adam’s obsessive possessiveness fits Noah’s desire to be wanted so beautifully; it’s completely unhealthy, which Noah acknowledges, but also entirely perfect for them. I love that they meet the first times through their mutual stalking and how Adam makes himself a welcome intrusion into Noah’s trailer and life. I love how Noah is a balancing presence for Adam’s anger and how Adam consistently chooses to make Noah the most important person in his life.
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”You’re not going to lecture me on drinking my problems away?” Noah asked.
“No. If this is what you need to cope, then I’ll keep you safe while you do it.”
Noah’s heart ached, and his chin wobbled for the thousandth time that day. “Thanks.”
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The main focus of this novel is past (and current, to others) CSA, however, and the eventual targets of the family are all pedophiles, so I’d absolutely skip this if it’s too much; there’s not any on-page CSA, but Noah remembers and speaks about some things throughout the book.
In my opinion, the rest of the books in this series (other than Moonstruck because I can’t get enough of Jericho and Freckles) pale in comparison to this one—even down to the final confrontation, which I see as quite a bit more cohesive than the other storylines.
Perfect
10/10 I adore this book. The family, the spice, the obsession. The author tends to find a word that will appear overmuch (in this one it’s abort/aborted lol) but that’s a personal irk. Still consuming the series like air.