Reviews

To Hold by Alessandra Torre

mcarmi's review

wow i really hate nathan

jessica_barton's review against another edition

5.0

I am now shelving these as dark-twisted. Because SOMETHING crazy is going on here. For some friends with hard limits...

Spoiler

there is some cheating going on, however we won't know if it's in true Alessandra Torre fashion until the last one, I'm sure

kelbell182's review

4.0

This book is so messed up! And I mean that in the best possible way. How in the hell can Alessandra Torre eff with my head so much in under 60 pages?! I love it, and I hate, but I love it again even more.
(full review below)

Main Characters


Candy Tapers: Fallen on hard times. She lives in a bad area and works as a stripper/hooker- despite the fact that she is educated- to pay her bills.

Nathan Dumont: Rich, entitled, handsome and broken. Very skilled at keeping himself separate from those around him and cares a great deal about what people think of him.

Length: 52 pages
Price: $2.99 on Amazon
Complete Series: $3.99 on Amazon

Dumont Diaries:
To Have (Dumont Diaries, #2)
To Hold (Dumont Diaries, #2)
Till Death (Dumont Diaries, #2)
Do Us Part (Dumont Diaries, #3)

Review
This book is so messed up! And I mean that in the best possible way. How in the hell can Alessandra Torre eff with my head so much in under 60 pages?! I love it, and I hate, but I love it again even more.

If I am supposed to end up liking Nathan in the end (and at this point I’m not sure where it is heading), then Torre is going to have to pull a rabbit out of a hat while riding on a unicorn’s back.

But I am all in, buried in this story until the bitter end. There is just no possible way that I could stop reading this series even if I wanted to.

“Control. It is a food that Nathan feeds on, devours with a vulgarity that clashes with his smooth exterior. He wants to control me, and he wants an audience — an audience that he controls in the process.”

theromancedove's review

4.0

things got very interesting....

answers are just now beginning to come to the surface..next book I'm expecting wayyy more answers

rogue007's review

5.0

I have never wanted to slap a guy as much as I wanted to do that to Nathan. What he had Candy do in the back seat of the car... Despicable.

biblio_bee's review

4.0

Soooooooooo eff-fing goooood!!! Jumps to the next book!

ideallyportia's review

3.0

You can definitely not read this book without first reading To Have, since this is part two of a four part novella series. But each of these stories are super quick reads.

I got SO PISSED at Nathan in this one. In the first one, I wasn't really pissed about his treatment of Candy. She knew what she had signed up for, he was distant on purpose, and all that. But what he made her do at this specific part made me fucking angry. (It is "explained" in one of the next novellas, but I still cant get over it.)

The curiosity about Nathan and the situation certainly moved forward, as did my curiosity about Drew.

ismahane's review

4.0

An interesting change of events, which I didn’t foresee. Again, left me with more questions that even the plot twist (which wasn’t to my liking) can’t deter me from reading the next part.

jlinhart's review

5.0

Man I'm hating Nathan. I really am always routing for the unemotional untouchable guy to become human but we weren't gonna see that happen to Nathan I guess. I don't know what to make of Drew. I'm thinking he might have a death wish or something because this can't end well. And Candy/Jenny she's gonna explode. When your restricted from things, that's all you want. My parents wouldn't let me have sugared cereal when I was a kid. When I visited my aunt guess what I ate for breakfast, lunch and dinner....yeah exactly what I felt deprived of. She gonna let loose sometime real soon!