Review: gratuituous horror...love it!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 25, 2012
This is a page turner read, fast and "OMG!  How's it going to end?!"  I labeled this "gratuitous horror" because there's a LOT of brutal fighting, a lot of knives and slashing, and lots of blood.  I liken it to those slasher movies where the blood flows freely, and anyone who gets in the way better beware.  (I admit to watching a lot of those movies.)  Mercy is such a foolish girl/woman...she has Cosmo dreams of meeting Mr. Right, or meeting any guy at all.  She is a repressed woman  whose thought processes are those of a dreamy junior high girl.  I found myself quite irritated by her, and as Victor stalks her, I was actually hoping she would end up murdered!  By the end of the book, I had a little more respect for her in that she actually turned out to be a fighter;  Victor and Mercy's struggle takes up the last half of the book, and that's where the read becomes fast and compulsive. (and very bloody).  There's some unexpected twists and turns, which raises a somewhat prosaic story (villain with mother issues obsesses over victim he wants to rape and murder  for some delusional reason) a little higher.  I don't know if it's intentional, but Victor has a pain fetish, receiving it and controlling it; ironically, his last name is "Dolor", which is "pain" in spanish.  Love it !!