Review: The More I Hate - Book #1 Gilded Decadence Series - Blake Hensley - February 2024 Scrolling through my Kindle one day, searching for something to really sink my teeth into, I stumbled across The More I Hate by Blake Hensley. The moment I clicked on it and saw who was behind the pen name, I felt that familiar flutter of excitement as Blake Hensley is the combined forces of two of my absolute favourite dark romance authors, Zoe Blake and Alta Hensley, who have joined their surnames just as they've joined their talents. These two women are queens of the genre, and the idea of them collaborating had me immediately sold. I'll be honest  I'd taken a bit of a break from dark romance lately. The books had started to blur into one another, leaning heavily into explicit content at the expense of the thing I actually crave most: chemistry. That slow-burning, charged, magnetic pull between two people that makes you forget to breathe. So I came into this one cautiously hopeful,...

Title: The More I Hate Series: Gilded Decadence #1 Author: Zoe Blake & Alta Hensley writing as Blake Hensley Genre: Dark Billionaire Romance Tropes: Enemies to Lovers/Arranged Marriage Forced Proximity Release Date: February 23, 2024 BL URB His family dared to challenge mine, so I am going to ruin them… starting with stealing his bride. Only a cold-hearted villain would destroy an innocent bride's special day over a business deal gone bad… Which is why I choose this precise moment to disrupt New York High Society's most anticipated wedding of the season. As I am Luc Manwarring, II, billionaire heir to one of the most powerful families in the country, no one is brave enough to stop me. My revenge plan is deceptively simple: humiliate the groom, then blackmail the bride's family into coercing the bride into marrying me instead. My ruthless calculations do not anticipate my reluctant bride having so much fight and fire in her. At every opportunity, she resists m...