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167 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 9, 2019
She is both his tribulation and his triumph.
But he would only ever be her ruin.





❝ How could a woman fall in love with a man sent straight from Hell? First, she fell in love with the rage. Then the freedom. Then the blood. And then, him.❞Insolent by Cynthia A. Rodriguez is book number four from the multi-author Sinister Fairy Tale Collection! I have been really enjoying these twisted, dark fairytales! This is my first read from Rodriguez and I’m definitely interested in reading more of her work at some point. Insolent is a dark retelling of Brave but instead of Merida’s story, we have Moira’s story. Even though Insolent starts off with a somewhat similar storyline, Insolent is a completely different story!

❝ The sunflower who bloomed without the sun.❞One day while Moira is out galavanting while she’s supposed to be at her archery lesson, she meets a dark stranger. Moria is intrigued by the beautiful dark stranger but before she can question him, he disappears back into the woods where he came from.
❝ Promises made are promises to often broken.❞But the more time the two spend together, the more they both see how much alike they really are. There’s a darkness inside Moria that Sol wants to explore. And he can’t help but want to keep her.
❝ I think I’ll keep you, girasol.❞

❝ She is both his tribulation and his triumph. But he would only ever be her ruin.❞


❝ He may have been named for the sun, but she looks as though she swallowed it.❞From what I understood about Moira, she wasn’t as innocent as she seemed. Maybe it was the abuse that helped shape her into who she was, but she craved the darkness just as much as Sol. Even though she had suffered a lot, she’s still a fighter. I liked her character, I’m just not able to connect with characters when I don’t have their POV’s.
❝ Those days that you weren’t mine were torture enough. I have to try to torture you. You have to breathe to nearly kill me.❞Sol was my favorite character from Insolent. He’s dark, dangerous, and delicious my favorite things in an anti-hero, plus he was a cold-blooded killer that was also a sweetheart. Most of the quotes I highlighted were from Sol. Again, I really, really wish this book had been written in at least one of the character’s points of view.
❝ I was meant to find you, girasol.❞Their love story starts off dark and twisted but it’s a love story all the same. I did like that the heroine was just as dark and twisted as the hero… well anti-hero, they were quite the match. Again, without any real steam, I just wasn’t able to see the passion and need between them.

❝ Her prince will not look like a knight in shining armor, because he is not one. That she is not a damsel in distress, either. She is a woman who needs to be given the chance to fight for herself and take back her life.❞

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