Review: Absolution by L.P. Lovell, Stevie J. Cole

Evie

All sins are equal in the eyes of God, but I'm not God. One sinner made me his sin, and I can't let men like him live. I want to kill them. Every. Last. One.
Ezra James is no different. I was going to kill him, but then I found myself obsessed and possessed in the most reverent of ways. I became his sinner, and he became my sin, but the wages of sin is death, so I must kill him.

Ezra

The son of a whore, raised by criminals, molded to fit into a world without morals. I've never given a shit about anything until the night I watched a man drop dead at the feet of my little killer. She called to my depravity, and everything in me demanded that I take her, possess her, own her. Some monsters hide behind the faces of angels.

Damned. Broken. Irredeemable.

Through blood, absolution shall be found.

 ***NOTE: This book is VERY dark. Please take that into account before reading. ***

I’m not sure what the hell I just read! It’s dark, it’s dangerous, it’s insane and it’s also amazingly a romance.  LP Lovell and Stevie J Cole have taken dark romances to a new level. Oh yeah, there’s also a freaking crazy twist I didn’t see coming.

Can two evils make a right?

I honestly can say I don’t know where to start. Ezra is a mob pimp and also a sadistic bastard. He’s has two operations, women who work the streets and ‘elite’ escorts that he trains to cater the less civilized. He was raised for this position. 

Evelyn (Evie) is a broken ‘little killer’. She strikes vengeance against men  and justify her acts because in her mind they are evil. She prays for forgiveness however when she finds Ezra, she finds her absolution.   

“I feel trapped in a never-ending cycle of sin and penance, and Ezra is both: my sin and my penance.”

Throughout the story Evie struggles with her conscious regarding Ezra, he is evil but she is obsessed with him and find herself worshiping him. Although Ezra knows that Evelyn is capable of hurting him, he continually pushes her, wanting to break her. Ezra soon becomes her protector, and he too is obsessed.

The story is brilliantly dark and twisted. Ezra and Evelyn are not your traditional romance couple. You will need to keep an open mind and expect the unexpected. 5 "What did I tell you about asking questions, Evie?" Stars!