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The Santangeli Marriage
288 pages
A stormy, high-angst descent into a deeply toxic marriage of convenience where betrayal and bitter passion collide.
What it feels like
This is a quintessential old-school category romance that thrives on extreme emotional turbulence and unapologetic toxicity. The narrative moves at a brisk, dramatic clip, plunging the reader straight into a tense, oppressive atmosphere defined by power imbalances and bitter betrayals. It is not a gentle or healthy love story; rather, it is a stormy exploration of duty, infidelity, and raw, destructive passion. The prose is highly melodramatic, amplifying every visceral reaction and moment of internal anguish. It caters specifically to readers who crave the intense, painful angst of vintage romance, where deeply flawed, domineering heroes and naive heroines clash in a fraught, explosive battle of wills that prioritizes dramatic conflict over modern relationship ideals.
- Mood
- tense
- stormy
- emotionally turbulent
- oppressive
- Tone
- melodramatic
- intense
- angsty
- dramatic
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- toxic relationship dynamics · power imbalances · betrayal and forgiveness · duty versus desire · unrequited love
- The writing
- Dramatic and emotionally heightened, focusing heavily on visceral reactions and internal anguish.
- The arc
- A grueling journey from naive submission and crushing betrayal to a highly fraught, emotionally explosive reconciliation.
- Who it's for
- Fans of vintage, high-angst category romance who actively seek out deeply problematic alpha heroes and intense, painful relationship dynamics.
Content notes
- infidelity
- emotional abuse
- dubious consent
- toxic relationship dynamics
About the book
Orphan Marisa was raised by the wealthy Santangeli family. Their only demand was that she marry their son....Italian billionaire and renowned playboy Lorenzo Santangeli is expecting to receive his money's worth from his innocent wife on their wedding night. But Marisa, 20, flees--how can she share a bed with the man who married her solely to produce an heir?Lorenzo, 30, vows to bring his virgin bride home--you do not say no to a Santangeli! Once she's back she'll be his completely, and he is determined to enjoy every minute of it....
Heed these 3 readers warnings: Reasons to read/not read this book... He does her, a horrid first time After that one and done he cheats for months marriage, until daddy tells him to go back to wife - screws his wife within days of leaving the OW, married woman's bed (super ew!) Never ever says kind words to her, Never ever shows ANY attributes to attract her to him, Yet she falls in love? With what? Abuse? A very very unhealthy relationship Although he thinks good thinks he NEVER acts on them He only "says" what was in his letters AFTER he is sure she destroyed them w/o reading them, he claims he said in them that he loved her, yeah right. There are thousands of other books to read... Please read anything else...
Spoiler alert: horrid book, take heed of those bad GR reviews! Did not appear to have HEA
Book to avoid, cheats for months on his newlywed, after he does her a horrid first time, not a romance, not even a good kind of pain, like Natasha Anders series the Unwanted series. Thousands of other books out there, skip this one
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