🦩REVIEW🦩 . Counts of Eight . (The Four Families, #1) . by Brynn Ford . 🦩“If giving up my freedom is the price I have to pay to be yours, then I will pay it. I don’t regret a thing if it means I’m yours...”🦩 . This might be the first book that has manage to give me more words than I can use to express how I feel after reading it. A tragic love story, that has no end; the suffer they’re both being held to can crush a soul and yet, they hang to each other like life vests, because the only thing they have besides hope is love…even if it’s forbidden. Anya. Slave of the Mikhailov family, she now belongs to Nikolai Mikhailov; the man who broke her and has held her captive for years. The only thing she can hang on to is dancing, she’s made peace with being a dancing slave, but now Nikolai has brought a partner for her to dance with, in a performance that could either save her or kill her. The moment Ezra realized how Mikhailov Manor worked, he hid his true self in order to keep Anya safe. One look into the blue-eyed girl and he lost, he feels everything for her, her pain, her torture, her heart; and that is the only thing either one of them can’t do; because both belong to Nikolai, the monster that keeps them alive just because. This book is a spell, you start to read and even when you feel your heart starts to break little by little you can’t stop; the story is almost magical and the characters have such strength that you can only keep reading while being aware that your soul is being ripped apart. Dangerous, haunting, twisted, powerful; this is what true dark romance is meant to be. Be aware that this book has some sensitive topics, if you’ve never read anything resembling dark romance, think twice before reading this haunting story. Goodreads Rating: 5+ stars #countsofeight #brynnford #thefourfamilies #darkromance #books #bookstagrammer #booklover https://www.instagram.com/p/CA76j3UAZXP/?igshid=1jgcb4ui7yq6r