❤ B.B. Easton 🍀 DEVIL OF DUBLIN 🖤

 

• 22 September 2022
• standalone Dark Irish Mafia Romance

★★★★
4.25 Stars

From the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of 44 Chapters About 4 Men (inspiration for the Netflix Original series Sex/Life) comes a dark mafia romance steeped in Irish folklore.

I can’t remember anymore if my grandfather’s eyes were blue or green, but I’ll never forget the way they wrinkled at the corners when he laughed at one of his own jokes. Or the way they sparkled with mischief when he told me tales about the magical creatures that dwelled in the forest behind his humble Irish sheep farm—shy fairies who liked to eat tea biscuits, cruel witches who liked to eat children, a moody lake spirit with a taste for expensive gifts.

As a child, I believed every fantastical word. But when he warned me about the mute boy who also lurked in those woods, the one the priest had declared to be the spawn of Satan himself, I refused to listen. Kellen wasn’t evil. He was kind, and beautiful, and special, and hurting. He was my friend. And with every summer I spent stolen away with him in those enchanted woods, he grew to become so much more.

But when I return to Glenshire as an adult, grieving and engaged to someone else, all those legends quickly morph into nightmares.

My grandfather had been right about everything, especially the boy.

If only I had listened.

WARNING: If you are a sensitive reader or find certain subject matter triggering, please exercise self-care and select a different book. Devil of Dublin is a dark romance, intended for mature audiences who enjoy high emotional intensity, explicit adult content, graphic violence, heart-pounding suspense, fairy-tale worthy love, and gorgeous Irish scenery. If that sounds like you, then … welcome to Glenshire!

Darby + Kellen

When she was only eight years old Darby went to visit her grandpa in Ireland for the first time. And that's also when she met the mute boy in the woods for the first time. He was living with the local priest and people thought he was the son of the devil just because he couldn't talk. They became the bestest of friends and played in the woods every summer. Until Darby didn't return for eight years.

When she came back for her grandpa's funeral - she was engaged. And Kellen wasn't the scared little boy anymore. He was working for the Dublin mafia.

And suddenly things get very dangerous for our darlings...

WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH DARBY + KELLEN?
WILL WE GET A HEA??
READ THE BOOK TO FIND OUT ☺

Phew. What a story.

I loved reading this. The chapters from their childhood were so adorable and sweet and heartbreaking!

And then they're all grown up. I'm not a mafia romance fan at all. But I loved Darby + Kellen.

It was such a sweet childhood-sweethearts-second-chance love story in the middle of all that crime and violence. Both Darby and Kellen have been through so much in their short lives. They're perfect for each other. Or they would be in a perfect world. But in their world, they have to fight through lots of obstacles to get to that happy end.

And the reader enjoys every page of that journey!

I wouldn't mind seeing this on Netflix one day!

It was a bit silly here and there. No matter what Kellen did, nothing worked! On the run from the bad guys - nothing worked. I wanted my hero to be a bit smarter than the mafia! I wished one of his ideas had worked. But pfft - in the end everything worked out perfectly!

 

DEVIL OF DUBLIN was a sweet and heartbreaking and dark and violent and exciting and sparky and sexy and very Irish love story. I didn't even mind the mafia bits all that much! I enjoyed reading this!

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Wall Street Journal bestselling author BB Easton lives in the suburbs of Atlanta with her long-suffering husband, Ken, and two adorable children. She recently quit her job as a school psychologist to write books about her punk rock past and deviant sexual history full-time. Ken is suuuper excited about that.

BB’s debut memoir, 44 Chapters About 4 Men, is the inspiration for the #4 Most-Watched Netflix Original Series of all time, Sex/Life. Because she had so much fun writing it, BB went on to publish four more wickedly funny, shockingly steamy, and heartwarmingly honest books, one for each man in her memoir: Skin, Speed, Star, and Suit.

The Rain Trilogy, an epic, immersive, end-of-the-world romance, is BB's first work of fiction. Or at least, that's what she thought when she wrote it in 2019. Then 2020 hit and all of her dystopian plot points started coming true. Hopefully, her feel-good romantic comedy Group Therapy will fix everything.