Review: I LOVE A BOOK THAT COMES WITH IT'S OWN WARNING LABEL!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 18, 2014
Now that you've been warned, I'll try to explain why this warning is necessary. If I can adequately express what Target This by Lily White did to my mind. You know the train wreck analogy. It's horrifying but you can't look away. That is similar to what my brain screamed during certain parts of this book. I'll start at the beginning...I know I have a screw loose. I love dark reads. The darker the better. I am such a vanilla in real life, but something in my psyche loves twisted and depraved tales. Lily White has become my go to dark author. Thank goodness I got her other books before Amazon yanked them back! If anyone wants to borrow them, just let me know. Okay, let me get back to her latest one.Target This begins innocently enough in a library. Autumn is a librarian. Picture that stereotypical librarian complete with bun, glasses and clothes that scream "destined to be the crazy cat lady one day".Lucas is an author. An author of dark romances. He if rich, famous and has a huge following. Autumn is not one of those fans. When new in town Lucas (literally) bumps into Autumn while doing research for his next book, she unknowingly puts herself in his crosshairs. Not recognizing Lucas, Autumn proceeds to let him know exactly how she feels about books that feature the degradation, humiliation and torture of women. Lucas is intrigued by this homely woman that screams innocent while condemning his books after confessing she has never read them. Autumn has just put a target on her back!I can't tell you anything else in great detail, because it might give something away. There is layer after layer, twist after twist. Prepare to go down the rabbit hole! I'm telling you, my brain is trying to find a way to accurately describe what you will experience. I'm struggling and frustrated right now.Okay, starting out, I knew soon enough that Lucas was a twisted man. Autumn was the woman that he was after, and I figured he wasn't planning to take her to Disney World. That was the only part I got right during this whole book. Every character introduced added another layer and changed the direction of the story. Pretty soon, I stopped trying to be two steps ahead and just surrendered to the story to take me wherever it wanted.Lily White's writing leaves me speechless. The way she constructs her characters blows my mind. Take Lucas. You will know without a doubt that he's dangerous. So does Autumn. But Ms. White's strength is manipulation. She makes you (well, the character but you know what I mean) go places you shouldn't and make decisions you should definitely not make! By the end of this book, you will realize that you have been in the hands of the ultimate puppet master.Here's the gist...Autumn is determined to avoid this conceited author that she truly dislikes. Lucas has decided that Autumn will be his muse for his next book. He is determined to make Autumn open her mind to the darkness inside and embrace it. He wants to shatter that facade of innocence and strength she wears. What happens from this point on will blow your mind!!!Target This is like being in a house of mirrors. Nothing is quite as it appears. The way Lucas manipulates and controls the actions of those around him will surprise you. Everything he does is strategically planned to bring the result he wants. His behavior is unpredictable which makes in impossible to guess where the story is going and what will happen to those he targets.When I finished the last word, I explained it to my husband like this: "I just realized something. As Autumn was reading one of his books, she said that she hated the words he wrote and the images he put in her head. She was disgusted and repulsed but she couldn't stop herself. She had to know how it turned out. She had to know what happened to the characters. I just realized that the author was telling me exactly how I would feel while reading this book." I was living Autumn's words, and I suspect that is exactly what Lily White wanted. And I just thought Lucas was the master puppeteer!I give Target This 5 Hookers! Before you send me emails, remember I looooove dark and twisted! If you are repulsed by situations like torture, degradation, abuse and violence, this book is not for you!