Deceiver was book two in  Robin Lovett's Dark series. After reading Stranger a few weeks ago, I was super excited to read Deceiver as I wanted more of Blake Vandershire's story. He seemed incredibly angry in the first book and after that revelation at the end of Stranger I could understand why! 

Blake Vandershire is in a path of vengeance. After learning that Emmett Nowell helped cover up the murder of his mother (at the hands of his father), he decided to get revenge on the man by kidnapping his daughter Daisy Nowell. But what Blake doesn't expect is the heated attraction he feels toward Daisy and the feelings and emotions he starts to feel for her. 

I really enjoyed this novel. It was passionate, sexy and very intense. I loved that despite their need to pull away from each other, the strong attraction between them was too much of a pull. I loved Blake and Daisy's chemistry and the fact that Daisy wasn't a simpering damsel in distress. She was strong and sassy and gave as good as she got. I loved her! Like Stranger, Deceiver was also a psychological read but it was also a tad bit more emotional as we saw the resounding effects and wounds his mother's murder had on Blake. 

All in all, I really enjoyed DECEIVER and look forward to reading the next book. I would like to thank Netgalley and the SMP Romance team for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Bravo! 4 Stars ~ Ratula

Blake Vandershall's revenge consumed him. The hunger he felt for revenge was something that Daisy Nowell never saw coming. She pushed his every button while he knew everything about her. After luring her out with a premise of a party she takes things to the next step. I love Robin Lovett's dark romance series! All of your plans cannot change the attraction you feel for another. Each plot twist and turn captivates your attention desperately seeking the next detail. After reading the first book in the series I am hooked and can't wait to see what is next.

I received an advance copy for an honest review and I absolutely loved it!

I read and enjoyed the first books ok in this series and was interested to see Blake get his own book and the main plot unfold more. We get such a deeper understanding of all things Blake. My heart broke for him quite a few time.

Blake was more amazing then he was in the first book. I loved being in his head and seeing his hate towards Daisy's father and him trying to come to terms with his past. He was sweet when he wasn't trying to be, and even with his lies he was a hottie! But I've always been a sucker for a "bad guy".

Daisy was hard to get a read on. I liked her character and how she was strange in her own right. She loved everything Blake dished out and that drew me to her more and more as the story went on. She didn't take crap which I liked. The fact that she never gave up on him was a huge plus in my book.

This book is centered around revenge but a romance developed and it was raw. I was fascinated with the different directions the author took the book. It kept me interested from start to finish. The author brings out the past, that if you read book 1, readers wondered about. The ending makes me anxiously await the next book!

Overall I really enjoyed it. I suggest reading the first book so you have a better sense on what is happening and why Blake is so angry. I can't wait to see what's going to happen in the next book! I'm so glad that Layla is going to get a book, and from the tease at the end of this, it's going to be HOT! 4 stars #2OCCJD

This book was definitely better than the first in the series. The story progressed in a good manner, and I felt the book was one whole book. Still the book do not require much though, it is more a book you read for entertainment.

The story it self has a better ground and understanding than the first book. I was happy that it kept to the original story all the way to the end. The end was a little rushed, but not too much that it was a problem. When it comes to the characters, only Blake seem to develop, and his development happens fast when he realizes his mistakes. The other characters are in this book, as the first, only in the book to serve a purpose. When their purpose is done they disappear out of the story, or just take up space.

You can read this book without having read the first one, but you will miss a few hints to the story in the first book. All in all, it is a quick read for a beach day or a boring rainy evening.

A revenge plot—of enemies to lovers—turns one of my reading screws, always.

But after the somewhat abrupt ending of the previous book—with a pairing that was difficult to buy into—I was rather hesitant about this one when the opening of ‘Deceiver’ was just as awkward and abrupt and seemingly without context: Blake Vandershall hosts a party to lure Daisy Novell in through seduction as part of his scheme to bring her father down. Like the first book, there’s a close stalker element to this as well, as Blake mows down the Lovells’ carefully-constructed lives and exults in it.

What I couldn’t really understand was how Daisy couldn’t quite see through his scheme or remain stubbornly oblivious to it, as Blake wasn’t at all subtle about it—that much she needed to cut herself free of the stifling lifestyle she lived that any ol’ distraction would do? In fact, I wondered why she wasn’t too suspicious, and was astounded even, when she dallied, played the game and flirted without quite having any 6th sense that something was off with Blake when he’d pretty much revealed he knew all about her and her family. Yet all it takes is an orgasm very early on to have Blake remorseful about his own behaviour while the simmering anger that he seems to carry around is enough to turn Daisy on.

Daisy in essence, is attracted to an arse of a man (which might be a trigger for some) but as the blurb unapologetically goes, don’t expect any ‘normal’ romance character traits here. As with a story like this, the turn from enemies to lovers can’t simply be an uneasy truce with sex thrown in for me; it’s made all the more difficult because I need more than the usual convincing that such a pairing—while not all sunshine and roses—is a viable one and it’s what I’ll be looking out for. To some extent they are the perfect pair in a twisted manner of speaking, as one uses the other for their own selfish motives consciously: Daisy as a means to break out of her caged life and Blake who uses her as an outlet.

Seen in this light, ‘Deceiver’ probably succeeds and for that reason, I’m not sure how to rate this read. But take a chance on this if you like hate (and taunting-type) sex, ambiguous and deviant relationships that defy every trope you like in romance.

This story picks up where Stranger: A Dark Stalker Romance left off, giving Blake Vandershall and Daisy Nowell the spotlight. While Daisy's sarcasm and great humor made me giggle a lot, Blake's character was almost a mirror image of Logan Kane from Stranger: A Dark Stalker Romance. Both male lead characters seemed to be cut from the same cloth and their thoughts were almost interchangeable. The only difference between the two was wealth. Otherwise, they both had that self-loathing mindset from former hurts and misdirected their anger unto innocent targets.

Was this book dark? Not for me. Blake had a difficult upbringing that involved abuse but the fine details were minimal and not overly descriptive. This book is perfect for a reader who wants a hint of dark content with a lot of push-and-pull between the main characters.

► Overall, this was an okay read and I loved the heroine's overall attitude. She was direct, determined, and not one to be undermined. She was also the perfect match for Blake.

This is a new author for me. This story was about a man seeking revenge on a woman's father but essentially kidnapping her. I found the ploy to be predictable and the relationship between the characters to progress at warp speed. I had a difficult time finishing this one.