For the Love of Layla by Callie Moss
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
For the Love of Layla is a dark psychological stalker romance…
For the Love of Layla
Her – How do you cope when you find out the person you entrusted your heart to is a monster? A wolf in sheep’s clothing. I did what I thought was the right, logical thing…I ran. Little did I know nothing was ever going to be that easy and he had no intention of letting me go.
Him – The day she left she took a piece of me, hell she took everything I ever was and ever dreamt of being. I’ve always been a little…different. Inflicted with a chronic need to fixate on things. Who better to fixate on than the woman who stole my heart the moment she quite literally stumbled into my life. I can’t let her go and I will get her back by any means necessary. Even if that means destroying us both in the process. She’s mine. Only mine. My little love seems to have forgotten that, it’s going to be fun reminding her.
For the Love of Layla is a standalone dark psychological stalker romance with a supplemental epilogue, where you can choose to continue the story or end it. There will be many instances in this book that could be upsetting to some readers. This story is not meant for the light hearted. It won’t have a picture perfect ending with a pretty bow and a happily ever after scribbled at the bottom of a page, not right away. How the story ends is up to the reader, if you take my ending or the supplemental one is entirely up to you. This story is meant for those who aren’t afraid to love passionately, grieve and shed a few tears. With great love comes great pain.
Psycho stalker romance!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🤎🖤💜💙
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: ☺️🥲😚🥰😳
The heroine: Layla – she is a writer for a magazine called Blinked. Though what she really writes are paragraph long captions underneath instagram quotes and opinions of popular influencers and celebrities. Her boss, Mr. Danvers, is a pig who looks at her like she is prime rib and has a habit of punishing her for what he deems putting too much of her own opinions into her work. So, she often has to sit in the other desk in his office rather than her own desk out in with the rest of the writers. Until she meets Liam who recently bought out the magazine and a bunch of other businesses in the building where she works.
The Hero: Liam – he is a wealthy businessman who has a penchant for fixating on things, and when he meets Layla, he immediately becomes fixated on her to the point of obsession. They begin dating and he seems like a charming and intelligent man, though the more time goes by, his obsession starts to take over the relationship until one day he nearly kills Layla’s boss for touching her inappropriately.
The Story: Layla breaks up with Liam but is unsettled when he just takes it and doesn’t respond. She assumed he would fight for her and is disturbed that he just seems to accept it. Though little does she know, Liam is still obsessed, he constantly follows and stalks her. He climbs her terrace each night and sleeps next to her, leaving before she wakes up in the morning. He trained her Mastiff, Peaches to protect her from all men but him, and Peaches sees him as a friend.
Both Liam and Layla had painful childhoods and are a bit broken because of it, though Liam is a certified sociopath or psychopath, I always forget which is which. Since he was a child, he knew he was not normal, and something was wrong with him, but he could usually control himself until he met Layla.
Personally, I usually like a story about a psycho in love. I think the crazy things they do are kind of comical though definitely if this was the real world and not a book, they would be terrible, and he would definitely be someone to fear not someone to like and enjoy reading about. However, this is a book, so I enjoyed reading about how far he would go in his obsession.
This guy is completely off his rocker. More so than in just about any of the dark romance books I have read in the past. He goes to serious extremes to get her back, and I am not at all fond of those extremes. Though I did keep reading and the book did hold my attention all the way through. We eventually learn that in a way, Layla is almost as crazy as Liam is, though much of her craziness is what he drives her to.
“When this is all said and done, please know it was done from love. Every moment has been because I cannot and will not live without you.”
I have to say, this one really surprised me, at the end. The last quarter of the book actually made everything that came before it worthwhile. I found myself changing what I had originally thought I wanted to happen and actually hoping for a happily ever after. I even had tears in my eyes at one point in the story. Any story that can be that original is pretty good in my eyes.
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