VBT# Damaged - Nina D'Angelo

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Review: Damaged - Book #1 Outlaws Series and Book #0 of Stephanie Carovella Series  - Nina D'Angelo - February 2014

Have you ever been excited about a book ? Even more so , when you see the book from the beginning processes , the middle and then the finished product. That feeling of OMG, I can't wait to read it. For me, that was Damaged by Nina D'Angelo. I first discovered Nina's books with her crime series Stephanie Carovella series and fell in love with many of the characters. That series also got you wondering about her past and why some of the main characters e.g Sandra etc acted the way they did. In Nowhere to Run, the book starts off with the reader's learning that Stephanie's husband - her one true soul-mate Dominic is dead and the character of Stephanie comes across damaged and broken, but still tough as nails.  In Damaged , the author goes way back to the beginning where even before Stephanie meets Dom and she is dating Ben and living with her three roommates - Gina, Lyn and Angel.  The nightmares from her college buddy's death are still haunting her, so she heads to a bar called Outlaws to get away from it all. It's here that she meets the owner Dominic - the only one who can see her for who she really is and the only one she can be herself around. The thing is they are both taken. The story , not to give too much away is the beginning of her love with Dominic and their romantic adventure together, their ups and downs. However, it wouldn't be a Stephanie book without a little bit of trouble from having her car burnt, the word Whore spraypainted and of course a visit from the Jesus Christ Killer whom readers would have met in Book #2 Nowhere to Hide by Nina D'Angelo. In some parts readers, you will need tissues or a hanky as there are some raw and emotional parts . Heads up though readers, as this isn't your usual love story, romance novel. This isn't some piece of fluffed - up candyfloss covered novel as it holds grittiness , the complications and flaws that also come with falling in love and for those who have read Book #1 we all know how that starts. 
Another awesome book by Nina D'Angelo and a great effort as she flows from one genre to a next.

 

 

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