3.50 stars
Male Lead: Aiden King
Female Lead: Elsa Steel
Elsa is the type who feels like she’s failing herself if she doesn’t fight. This is what Aiden thought and he's not wrong after all. Elsa has always been a stubborn one but that doesn't change the fact that he's literally the same. He's not the one to lose in a fight either. Who's gonna win? Who's gonna lose then? Both has the same level of ego.
I've always rooting for Elsa to win any mind games Aiden started. It's just not fair how he thinks he can treat her however he wants just because she doesn't remember anything about her past life.
It's also hurts me the way little Aiden was kidnapped and tortured by Elsa's parents. Let me remind you that all of these happened because of those stupid rivalry between Jonathan and Ethan, Elsa's father. When I got to Elsa's pov of her finally knowing the truth, it's really breaks me. The fact that Elsa forgets everything and trying everything she could to gain her memories back because her nightmares has been haunted her. On the other side, Aiden who remembers everything. Being kidnapped when he was a child, being tortured in a basement, lost his mother without getting to see her for the last time. His father, Jonathan was too busy with his work. How f••••• up was that?
To read Rina Kent's characters' backgrounds are not for the weak. I survived Levi's and Astrid's. Now, I almost survived Aiden's and Elsa's.
I know Aiden's book is a trilogy and has way too many chapters and words than Levi's but still, Levi's traumatised childhood is less hurt than Aiden's. I couldn't even imagine on to the next characters we have left. I'm weak but I think crying by reading a book is heaven.