Review: Get ready to question what you accept in this dark and twisted love story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 22, 2014
*I was gifted a copy The Good Girl*Eleni and Gabriel are two people who aren't just broken, damaged souls, but monsters created by circumstance outside their control at a very young age. Eleni lives a loud and reckless existence, numbing the voices of her past with booze and men. While Gabriel lives in the shadows, the beast inside him feeding off the pain of his past, cracking his sanity and driving the obsession he forms for Eleni.His obsession with Eleni is a lethal attraction of both love and hate, pleasure and pain. When these two come together destructive doesn't even cover the pain they cause each other. As time goes by secrets are revealed that will bind them for life. What happens between them will have you questioning: When two people are this fractured can their souls be saved? Is there even anything left to save or redeem? You may be shocked at the answer.From start to finish I felt myself drawn into Gabriel's spiraling out of control. There was something about him that just lured you in. You wanted to hate him, you had moments you would, but there were these hints at something greater happening as he lost his control and sanity.Eleni took some time for me to connect to. There was something off in her way with Gabriel that made it difficult for me to worry or experience concern for her. It wasn't actually until the end, in one shocking twist that I finally started rooting for her, even if it meant she had to take extreme measures against Gabriel.I savored the ending these two got. At first I thought "No way!" But as I kept going it all made sense that there was only one way for it to end. No one would understand or accept the dark and twisted - at times heartbreaking - journey that was forced upon them, other than each other.