Moonlight Sins: A de Vincent Novel (de Vincent, #1)

by Jennifer L. Armentrout

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout delivers the unforgettable story of a woman whose new life has just begun-but may end in murder . . .

Julia Hughes has always played it safe until she learned a very painful lesson. Now Julia's starting over with a job in the Louisiana bayou-and a scorching encounter with a stranger, only to discover he's Lucian de Vincent . . . her new employer. The de Vincent brothers share a massive fortune and a dark reputation. Julia cares for their troubled sister, but a menacing presence in the mansion-and the ever-present temptation of Lucian-prove dangerously distracting.

Lucian's grandmother claimed de Vincent men fall in love once-and hard. Apparently, it's Lucian's turn. Julia's compassionate care of his twin makes Lucian want to lay himself bare. But some secrets are better for Julia not to know.

The recent "suicide" of Lucian's father is the latest in a string of deaths on the estate. Someone is eliminating the de Vincents. And the best way to get to Lucian may be through Julia. . . .

• ISBN10: 0062674528
• ISBN13: 9780062674524
• Publish Date: 30 January 2018
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Imprint: Collins
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 400
• Language: English

Reviews

[Leigha]

Nurse Julia Hughes takes a new job at the estate of the de Vincents in this terrible adult contemporary romance.

This book was a hot dumpster fire, ya’ll. The biggest issue – the one to completely pull me out of the story – were all the grammatical issues, including misspellings, missing words, and pronoun disagreements. I legit thought it was self-published with no editor until I read the author’s thanks to her editor in the afterward. Let me tell you, I was flabbergasted. Every chapter was filled with errors to the point I almost DNFed the book. Almost.

My second biggest issue had to do with two of the brothers, Lucian and Gabe. It was hinted several times that they “shared” women – and not in just “we both slept with her” type of way. As in they had a threesome with a woman together. And I just…no. No, no, no. That’s my one ick factor. Polyamory? Sure. Threesomes (or more)? Ok. But siblings indulging in sexual acts with each other in the room? Hard pass. Fortunately, this story doesn’t go all the way down that route, but it got too close for my comfort zone.

After all that bitching, you’d think this book would deserve a 1 star. And you’re probably right. However, I picked up this story figuring it would not be good. I needed a book to help me unwind from the fabulous A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire (also by this author). I wanted something to entertain me without engaging me. Plus, the sex scenes were pleasantly steamy so I’m going with 2 stars. I will not be reading any others in the series.

tl;dr Plagued by grammatical issues and a triggering plot point, this book’s only saving grace was its ability to entertain me.

[Romance Schmomance]

Now let me start off by saying that I’m a huge fan of JLA’s work especially the Covenant and Lux series, those books are my absolute favorites out of all that she has written. Once I’ve heard about her newest series, de Vincent, the synopsis had me intrigued. I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect with this one, but I was curious to read more, especially with the darker tone this book emits.

This book starts off with secrets galore, there’s just a lot of mystery of what it is going on and you’ll be wanting to all these questions answered. To be honest, I had trouble deciding what the genre actually was, you’ll know exactly what I mean once you start diving into this one. You get the paranormal vibe that’s on the scary side, yet it’s truly a suspense thriller. Note: this is not a PNR. There’s just some straight up creepy things happening in this book. Or maybe it’s the fact that some of the characters straight up creeped me out.

Let’s start off with Julia, she recently secured this amazing job, which seems a bit overpaid. There’s a lot of mystery behind who her client is, so much that she was given false names in order to hide the identity of who she’d be working for. On the eve of her big move and first day on the job, she heads out to the local bar as a last hoo-rah. Expecting to just have a few drinks with friends, turns into a night ending in bliss with a beautiful stranger.

The next day she gets the surprise she wasn’t expecting. Not only does she learn about the famous and extremely wealthy family she now works for, she learns more about that stranger from the night before. Despite a little bit of truth and all signs telling her she should head back home and get a new job, she decides to stick it out.

Lucian, what is there to say about this man? A cocky bastard I must say and knows EXACTLY what he wants. A definition of a playboy, but his other side showing how much he cares about not only his family but his sister as well. Besides all that, he has that dark, mysterious, and sexiness rolling off of him in folds.

I loveeeee Julia. She’s a pretty strong character and genuinely cares about the wellbeing of Lucian’s twin, Madeline. doesn’t give in too quickly to Lucian’s advances. However, it’s so evident how much attraction is going on between the both of them. Even though Lucian loves to play the field a bit, he’s completely enamored with Julia. I enjoyed seeing Julia unravel him.

Moonlight Sins is not a quick read and a book you have to really pay attention to every detail to truly understand what’s going on. Secrets are being held, is it really a curse upon the de Vincent family? All I’m saying is that there are more than ghosts walking around in the de Vincent mansion. Overall, a well-rounded story with quite a bit of mystery and that slow burn that I love so much. Be prepared to swoon over Lucian! I look forward to the next book, Moonlight Seduction.

**ARC provided for an honest review**

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[Cocktails and Books]

3.5

I'm going to admit, I came into this book thinking it was something completely different than it was (for some reason I had this pegged as a paranormal romance). It took me a while to get over that mistake. But once I did, I was intrigued by the brothers and their relationship (or lack thereof). What exactly happened to their father and what was up with their comatose sister.

There was a lot that happened in this book and at times it had that ghost story feel, but I was entertained to the end. I had a lot of questions by the time Lucian and Julia got their HEA but I'm even more excited to see what comes next.