![]() ![]() He is still damaged by his past, and he’s always going to be uncomfortable with certain aspects of intimacy and behavior. What I loved most about this book, I think, was that Miranda didn’t “cure” Smite. (She even manages to stick a perfectly happy gay couple in there, who helped raise Miranda and gave her a ton of happy memories.) Instead, she has created a fantastic, heart-wrenching love story that I simply couldn’t put down. Treading dangerous waters with a mentally damaged hero, a heroine turned into a mistress, and seedy crime, Milan never puts a foot – or a word – down wrong. I feel as though every Courtney Milan book I read is better than the last, and Unraveledwas no exception. Until she encounters Smite, who never forgets a face, and somehow can’t get hers out of his head. ![]() Miranda Darling, in contrast, does just about everything for someone else – under the protection of a figure of the underworld in which she lives, she puts on numerous fake identities to mislead the law. He knows that they’re unlikely to understand just how he ticks, and as such he’d simply rather be alone – or with his dog. Traumatised by his mentally ill mother throughout his childhood, in a time when treatment was more harmful than helpful, he’s grown into a conscientious magistrate fixated on justice who nevertheless sets people apart from him. I named Courtney Milan as one of my top discoveries of 2011 and books like this one are exactly why she ended up on that list. ![]()
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