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Twisted Love

Twisted Love

Contemporary RomanceRomance
Pages
341
Published
2021
Language
English

Synopsis

Ava Chen is a warm, free-spirited photographer haunted by nightmares of a childhood she cannot fully remember. Alex Volkov is her older brother's best friend: ruthless, success-obsessed, and emotionally walled off by a tragic past that fuels his hunger for revenge. When Alex becomes Ava's de facto protector, the cold distance he keeps gives way to a possessive, all-consuming pull that neither is supposed to act on. Their grumpy-sunshine, brother's-best-friend dynamic plays out against the darker currents of Alex's history and the secrets surrounding Ava's own. The first book in the Twisted series, it introduces a tightly connected friend group whose members headline the books that follow, and it establishes the morally grey anti-hero that made Ana Huang a BookTok phenomenon.

Prose complexity
1/10

Vibe

TenseRomanticDark
Grumpy Sunshine
Writing4.0Impact3.0Characters3.0Plot4.0Atmosphere4.0
Spice level
4.0 avg spice

Genres

Contemporary Romance Romance Contemporary Literature New Adult Romance Dark Romance

About the author

A
Ana Huang

Chinese-American author Ana Huang is one of the defining names of the contemporary romance boom, a number one New York Times, USA Today, and Sunday Times bestseller whose books have sold more than twenty-five million copies and been translated into over thirty languages. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she studied international relations and spent time as an exchange student in Shanghai, a setting that surfaces in her earliest work. She began writing stories as a child to practice English an...

Characters

Ava ChenProtagonist

A free-spirited photographer haunted by fragmented memories of her childhood.

Alex VolkovProtagonist

Ava's older brother's ruthless, emotionally walled-off best friend.

Josh ChenSupporting

Ava’s older brother, an aspiring doctor who later becomes the hero of Twisted Hate.

Rhys LarsenSupporting
Bridget von AschebergSupporting
All characters in Twisted Love

Frequently asked questions

  • Does Twisted Love need to be read in order?

    While each book in the Twisted series focuses on a different couple and can be enjoyed as a standalone romance, reading them in publication order allows for a richer understanding of the interconnected character relationships and overarching world-building.

  • What order should I read the Twisted series in?

    The intended order is Twisted Love, Twisted Games, Twisted Hate, then Twisted Lies. They are interconnected standalones, but reading in order best follows the shared friend group.

  • Is Twisted Love connected to the Kings of Sin series?

    Yes. Both belong to Ana Huang's shared universe, and Kings of Sin is widely considered a spin-off of the Twisted world, with overlapping characters.

  • Was Twisted Love self-published?

    Yes. Huang self-published it in 2021, it went viral on TikTok and BookTok, and print rights were acquired by Bloom Books, which re-released the series with new covers in 2022.

  • Who are the four friends the series follows?

    The series centers on four women, Ava, Bridget, Jules, and Stella, each of whom headlines one of the four books.

  • Does Ava's brother appear in other books?

    Yes. Josh Chen, Ava's older brother, becomes the hero of the third book, Twisted Hate.

  • Is this a dark romance?

    It leans dark, with a possessive, morally grey anti-hero, violence, and trauma, though it is lighter than the series' final book, Twisted Lies.

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