Review: Eventually Alright!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 21, 2014
4 1/2 stars.50% into the kindle version I was wondering how I was going to justify giving SK 3 stars. I envisioned outraged fans yelling, "Didn't you read the disclaimer?? You were supposed to read the disclaimer"!!!! And I did read the disclaimer. I generally love anti-heroes. I like the guy everyone else hates...so I was not prepared to hate Sebastian with a burning fiery passion. And of course, being as this is primarily a "romance" or at least a "relationship" book; it's hard to love it if you want the male lead dead.Sebastian is an elitist snob, an overbearing, obnoxious, self centered, egocentric  control freak with absolutely no care or concern for how his behavior affects other people. He has psychotic, unpredictable mood swings and goes from 0 to 60 in the blink of an eye and ideally should be pumped full of heavy duty psych meds and his temper warrants years of anger management training. He gets off on intimidating people (especially women) and is an outright bully. He is paternalistic and sexist and I would dearly love to see a female agent clean his clock.Up until the 30% mark I was fantasizing about Taylor killing him. I tried out various scenarios and finally settled on her poisoning his dinner (just to make him woozy but conscious enough to appreciate the full brunt of her betrayal) then cracking him across the face with a lead pipe (breaking his jaw so he couldn't talk) and then cracking his skull open like a pinata so his brains leaked out. I fantasized about this in graphic detail, and it put a smile on my face.Then somewhere along the 50% mark I softened. He absolutely still needed to die, but I was OK with Taylor shooting him at point blank range in the head while he slept. I wasn't furious with him anymore, he was just wrapped wrong and needed to be put down like a rabid dog.And then much to my utter dismay at just under 60% I felt bad for the SOB. I actually pitied him enough to consider that the only happy ending possibly may not have to consist of Taylor killing him. Mind you I was still on the fence about the necessity of his eventual demise but I felt bad for him.And finally at 90% the unthinkable happened. Seeing Sebastian sitting there all vulnerable and crying and begging I actually kinda didn't want him dead. I got sucked in just like Taylor and now I have to read the next 2 books during the course of which I am quite sure I will have many more happy moments enthusiastically plotting his annihilation!