The first in a new three book series from Ghiselle St. James:
This is not a fairytale. This is not a story of a woman who is perfect. This is not the story of a perfect couple that sails off into the sunset. This is gritty. This is frustrating. This is heartbreaking. This is my story, hard as it may be to tell.
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My name is Sullivan Beal – at least, that’s what I tell people – and I live life by my own rules. Most of my adult life has been spent hiding from my past. That is, until I meet HIM face-to-face.
Ben Hayes is the demanding C.O.O. who is hell-bent on having me for himself. But, I’m wrong for him. I know it, the universe knows it. If he ever found out who I really am, how utterly tainted I am, he wouldn’t waste his time wanting me.
There are things in my past that would destroy everyone in my wake. But Ben is relentless, trying to break down the walls around my heart that a messy past has caused me to construct. It’s a pity he doesn’t know…I am too tainted for love.
“Love isn’t for me, and my kind of love is too tainted, too blemished to share with anyone.”
Review by Gia:
Tainted Love is a great read. It hooked me right in and I didn't want to put it down until I was finished.
Sullivan is a girl who is running form her past. She goes by the name Sullivan but we find out pretty quickly that, that is not her real name. Only Marshall and Rachel really know her.
Sullivan meets Ben Hayes. Ben is a successful business man. He is used to getting what he wants. He want Sullivan but she has other ideas. Sullivan is pretty much a one night standalone girl but For Ben she may make an exception. Both Sullivan and Ben are strong willed people and their relationship has a lot of ups and downs. Sullivan keeps all of her past from Ben. One secret come out and threaten to destroy their relationship and that secret isn't even about Sullivan's past. There is a crazy cliffhanger where Sullivan's past comes back.
Sullivan and Ben are very captivating characters and you won't get bored with them.
5 Amazeballs Stars!!
This isn't a perfect story. It's gritty, dark, frustrating but beautiful. Love isn't all hearts and flowers and bullshit declarations that are hollow and empty. If you love someone, you have to PROVE you're worth they're love. The road to happily ever after is paved with mistakes and horrible decisions...don't hold mine against me.
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Sullivan: I have been captured by the only person I hate in this life; a person that I once foolishly loved. He is poison to me. Will I ever be free of him? Will I ever see Rachel again? Will I ever see my parents, my brother again? And Ben...will he ever know how I feel about him? So many wasted days I spent resisting him. A tear trickles down my face at that; because as I see Rick shaking that needle with a wicked gleam in his eye, I know this is the last time anyone will ever see me alive.
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Ben: I've worked very hard to maintain this control I have, but in just a few weeks Sullivan Beal came into my life and toppled my carefully constructed walls, and for a moment I didn't care. Now that she is out of my life, I should be happy...but all I can do is think about her; how I miss her smile and how she made me feel free. I have to get her back. The love I have for her may not be perfect, but our relationship scarcely is. And that's what makes it perfect. She may be tainted with demons from her past that she holds close to her chest, but I will free her from them; because as frustrating as my sweet girl is...I'm in this for the long haul. She might be broken, but I love her anyway. But one phone call...that dreaded phone call has me in a tailspin. Sullivan is kidnapped & it's a race against time to find her before he hurts her... Or worse...
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Review by Gia:
Broken Love is book two in the Tainted Love series. It can not be read as a standalone, you must read Tainted Love first. I devoured Tainted Love and read it very quickly. With Broken Love it took me a little longer to read. Broken Love covers some heavy issues. It picks up where the first one left off. Sullivan's past can not be ignored anymore. Her past has her and she has to figure out how to deal with it. She' not is a good place and some of the scenes are hard to read.
I loved Ben even more in this one. He's very emotional in this one and does what he needs to help Sullivan. Almost all of Sullivan/Delilah's past comes out. We get to learn more about her family and we get to meet Marshall.
The ending took me by surprise. I wasn't excepting that. I can't wait to read the next one and see what happens next.
5 Amazeballs Stars!!
Ghiselle St. James is a Jamaican author who has a never-ending love for written thoughts: poetry, song lyrics and fiction. A songwriter by the age of 9, Ghiselle enjoys singing just as much as she loves writing. She has been writing erotic novels since she was 13 years old. Never mind that they went unpublished; she had something inside her that wanted to break free…and it helped that it made her popular with the boys (hehe). Writing has been her outlet for most of her life, and will continue to be.
Ghiselle lives in Jamaica with her husband, Chris, and her handsome baby, Panthro the cat. She works full time but always makes time for music, writing, reading and chatting on Goodreads.
Ugh, I hate talking about myself in the third person.
Anywho…
I went to the Jamaica Theological Seminary (haha, yes!) where I studied Social Work and graduated with honors in June 2010. Since then, the writer in me has reawakened and hasn’t gone to sleep. I completed my first novel in January of 2013 which led me into writing my debut novel South Row in March 2014.
I pray my passion brings you as much joy as it has brought me.
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