Straight off the bat, the plot of "Deceptive Innocence" sounds like the TV show "Revenge". Our heroine Bell has bounced around from foster homes while her mother has withered away in prison for a murder she didn't commit. In the prologue Bell is channels all over her anger and energy into bringing down the family she believes is responsible for framing her mother. Four years after the prologue she's working at a dive bar she knows Lander Gable frequents in hopes of ferreting her way into his life and his family and bringing them down one by one. But that's where the similarities end. Where "Revenge" ends because it's on a major network "Deceptive Innocence" takes off in just how far the heroine is willing to go for justice and revenge.

There's a nod to "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "Wuthering Heights" and there's a running theme of forbidden love, temptation, and the blurred lines of revenge and lust. If you're never watched "Revenge" then this particular theme might seem brand new, but it's written in a way that if you are a viewer of the show it's very enjoyable.

Written in the first POV, we learn from Bell all of what she's planning to do and how she does it. You know from the beginning she's going to get her heart involved with Lander and it's only a matter of time she starts to question her motives and whether revenge is the best thing to avenge her mother. Her struggle to figure out how to disentangle her heart from her head is interesting.

I think my only complaint is that since it's not written in novel form, but a serialized novel it moves a little too quickly for me. From the first moment Bell and Lander hook up, she starts to lose control because of what feelings he evokes in her. For someone who has meticulously plotted revenge for 4 years, one look and one touch later she's questioning whether or not she can do this. She reinforces her revenge with flashbacks of what happened with her mother.

And there is collateral damge - Bell is willing to hurt innocent-ish people in order to get to a certain point of the game. Despite potentially maybe having sexual feelings for Lander, she reinforces her need to get revenge - there's a lot of anger running through her veins and she needs to maintain that level of hatred.

But you know it's only matter of time before things start to get dicey......