⭐️ 5/5
🌶️ 4/5
Paved in Hate is really written so well. You can feel everything that the characters feel. It is a beautiful story of healing.
Plot Summary
Vitaly Melnikov never wanted to settle down. He liked playing the field. But when life brings a situation where he either has to marry Katya or give up the progress they’ve made so far in finding Alina he doesn’t have much choice. He can always annul the marriage if he never touched her.
Katya doesn’t want the marriage either. After growing up with two brothers who are the heads of a human trafficking ring, she has no interest in marriage. Especially not to someone in the same business as her brothers.
But what neither of them saw coming was the explosive attraction between them. Soon they both know that there will be no giving up the other.
My Thoughts
I’ll admit I like arranged marriages, but with the instalove thing going on Paved in Hate is certainly not the same as any other arranged marriage book I have read so far.
The mistrust between the characters because of Katya’s past and who she thinks Vitaly is makes for a very interesting and beautiful story of healing.
Katya has to find a way past the ideas that has been ingrained into her from a very young age. Vitaly, on the other hand has to find a way to help her deal with this trauma so she can see how life really is.
Where to Read?
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You can read it for free with a Kindle Unlimited trail.
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Is Paved in Hate a Series or Standalone?
Paved in Hate is most definitely not a standalone and shouldn’t be read as such. It is the fourth book in the Melnikov Bratva series by Sonja Grey.
The backbone of the entire series is the characters trying to find Alina and to bring down the trafficking ring that took her.
So, even though every book features a different couple, the books do follow upon each other.
Tropes
This is an arranged or forced marriage where the woman has to marry her brother’s enemy.
Once again, like the previous books, this book is the prefect example of instalove and contains a strong element of found family.
Pet Names
Vitaly calls Katya ptichka which is the Russian word for “little bird”. He calls her that because she likes to draw birds.
Quotes
“Fuck, ptichka,” I whisper. “You’ve broken me, sweetheart. I’ve fucking shattered at your feet, and nothing will ever be the same for me again.”
– Vitaly Melnikov
“My past is not my future, ptichka. I’m not the same man I was before I met you.”
– Vitaly Melnikov
“I need to feel something sweet, something good, because I feel like I can’t fucking breathe and you’re the only thing that can help.”
– Vitaly Melnikov
“The sound of his voice calms me like nothing else ever has. I let it become my anchor; I let him become my anchor, the one thing that I’m tethered to that will be strong for me so that I don’t always have to be.”
– Katya
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