My Dark Romeo by Parker S. Huntington
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
My fairy tale turned into a cautionary one.
My Dark Romeo
Inked in tar and sealed in tears.
From Wall Street Journal best sellers L.J. Shen and Parker S. Huntington comes an explosive marriage of inconvenience…between a tarnished Romeo and a reluctant Juliet.
It was supposed to be a harmless kiss at a lavish debutante ball. A clandestine moment with a handsome stranger.
But unlike his namesake, my Romeo isn’t driven by love. He’s fueled by revenge.
To him, I’m a chess piece. Leverage.
His rival’s betrothed.
To me, he is a man deserving of poison. A dark prince I refuse to marry.
He thinks I’ll accept my fate. Well, I plan to rewrite it. And in my story, Juliet doesn’t die.
But Romeo? He perishes.
“You’re my favorite plot twist.”
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙💚💖
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌍
Character development: ☺️🤭😳😘
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration
The heroine: Dallas Townsend – she attends the Chapel Falls debutante ball for the food. That is where she first sees Romeo. She is engaged, she was promised before her birth, she thought it would happen in the future, until she found the announcement in the society pages two days ago. She is known in her family as the lazy one, though she is witty and bright. She is also very much a product of her environment. A twenty-one-year-old virgin who does what her family wants without trouble. More than anything she wanted to be a mother.
The Hero: Romeo Costa – he is a mega-billionaire who is set on becoming the CEO of his father’s company, though he is the current CFO at Costa Industries, a defense firm (weapons) and had tripled the revenues since graduating college and is ruthless in both his business and personal life. He is out for revenge against his main business Rival who happens to be Dallas’ fiancee. He also has to find a bride, or the CEO position would go to Bruce Edwards, who his father mentored.
The Story: Dallas and Romeo meet at the Debutante ball where he is the talk of the Ball. Dallas is the only one he dances with, and he offers her a hook-up. She decides to meet him, though she is saving her virginity, so she wouldn’t go all the way. She knows Madison Licht, her fiancee sleeps with other women on the regular. Though she doesn’t mind since they have only met a few times and only talk on the phone once or twice a month to get to know each other.
While hooking up with Romeo, they are caught by everyone at the ball when the wall they stood next to fell over and they were on the stage in front of the entire audience. Dallas immediately sees how angry her father is and everyone starts talking about what a scandal it is, though Romeo obviously orchestrated the entire thing. They end up engaged to each other.
“She is beautiful, unhinged and would rather eat her own eyeballs than marry me.”
“I’d given Dallas Townsend my first scandal, she’d given me her future. It did not seem an equitable exchange and marked the first time in my adult life I’d ended up on the losing side of, well, anything. All over a girl who would sprint into a stranger’s white van if it meant she could get her hands on a piece of candy.”
There are some great supporting characters in this book, especially Romeo’s friends whom he shares a group text with. They are pretty funny and such guys in everything they do and say, and I loved that they thought the whole situation was hilarious. Romeo was cruel at times and definitely cold blooded, but I can certainly understand why he hated Bruce Edwards. He thinks Dallas has an insufferable personality from the start. Though he makes her move in with him (and sign a prenup) right away. Though in truth, I pretty much felt the same about his personality from the start. He was way too arrogant.
I didn’t really like the way they traded insults for the better part of this book. They hated each other and made no bones about it. Both of them were very childish about the way they treated each other. They were more annoying than anything, especially at the beginning, though I got over it and the story got much better as it went along, so I ended up invested in the characters and what they wanted.
This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration. It was narrated by Jacob Morgan and Stella Hunter. Both of these narrators are terrific. Stella Hunter has a soft, feminine voice which sounds intelligent and is perfect for Dallas. She also does a few accents for supporting characters, though I was glad she didn’t use one for Dallas. Jacob Morgan has a great deep gravelly voice which I just love. He always does a fantastic job.
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