Review: If you want rainbows and puppies, look elsewhere! Beautifully dark and gritty!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 1, 2013
First things first, this book is phenomenal. If you're looking for a sweet, mushy romance full of unicorns and kittens, you've come to the wrong place, friends! This story is where unicorns and kittens come to die.Now here's where the spoilers come in... there's no way to explain my love affair with Evan Arden without some spoilers so if you haven't read this book yet, avert your eyes.Evan Arden is the dude you cross the street to avoid. He's fifty shades of messed up. He's a discharged ex-Marine, a former POW, a shell of a man who is battling his demons and losing. And his current career choice? He's a contract killer, a hit man for a mob boss. Oh... And also... he has a thing for hookers.But.I.Love.Him.This book has you rooting for the bad guy. The amazing, phenomenal, brilliant (shall I go on?) writing by this author puts you inside the mind of Evan Arden. This author's writing from the male perspective is amazing. The writing in general is perfection on a plate. But the author's ability to get inside the male mind and take you along for the ride is the icing on an already delicious cake.I could feel every ounce of Evan's instability. My heart raced as if I was sitting on that bus, trying to keep it together, but still teetering on the brink of losing it all together. I felt every nightmare, tasted every grain of sand, felt every drop of fear... You're not just reading this story as an outsider... You are looking through the scope of an assault rifle, with your prey in the crosshairs. You literally live this book.This book is all consuming. I can't even move on to another book because this story and these characters are so under my skin. I need the next book, like, yesterday... And I'll sell a kidney, my first born and my soul to get it!This story line is amazing, believe me, it's like nothing you've read before. This author is amazing and we should be yelling her name from the rooftops and marching in a parade in her honor.  Read it. Read it now. And then read it again. Because you won't be able to move on to anything else.