Review: All I can say is HIT ME! I'm ready for more!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 15, 2014
Some debut novels are hard-hitting, balls-to-the-wall, no-holds-barred brilliance in action only for their successors to fall flat on their faces because how does anyone top what has already come before? If the author has already thrown it all out there, what else is there to give?There was this hesitance in me to read The Fix because all I could think was: There is no way this will be as good as the first one.I was wrong.All the questions I thought I was sitting alone in my corner pulling at my hair wondering why I didn't get any answers? I got all of the important ones answered in this book and then the ride just kept going and going and going. I felt as if I were on one of those suspended roller coasters where my limbs were dangling as I depended on nothing more than the assurance of the ride maker I would make it safely through the end as the coaster whipped me around hairpin curves, turned me upside down, looped me over and over, and then dead-dropped me into an ending I wasn't prepared for except there I was---ride over and I survived somehow in spite of my doubts.That's a lot of words, right?Language is this heady thing to me where more is more is more and if one is truly a bibliophile one has a fixation on words which can only be satisfied with the right combination of them.For me? E. Llewellyn is one of those writers who can decimate all barriers of language to expose a rich, seedy underlayer of literature no one else has dared to tackle. She's fearless. She's fierce. Her work is a manic masterpiece of lush descriptions, rich, haunting characterizations where those who are depicted don't have to be the good guys all the time! Magically enough? We, the readers, are allowed to see these characters have flaws! They have their own depravities, faults, and failures. They are not simple "nice guys" or "alphas" who tell their "boys" to get in line. They are men! Tough, rough, sexual, sensual men who don't fit into the standard molds because this author doesn't feel the need to pigeonhole her characters into generic boxes to satisfy a generic audience.When I read these books, I don't feel as if the author is pandering to a reader base to sell more copies; I feel as if I am strapped into the ride right beside her as we scream together, neither of us knowing if we're going to live or die until it's all over for us both.This series isn't a book series for me. It's an experience. It's a breath-taking, eye-opening, thrilling experience which I feel unimaginably grateful to be able to take with the author and her cast of characters which only gets more enticing as the series goes on.I want to find out more about everyone: Johnny (Naturally! Who doesn't want more of him? He's a sex god with a mysterious past which only becomes more mysterious the more we learn of him.), Norman (Who, seriously, can be as intense, demanding, and fierce as he wants because I will tell you I'd call him 'Daddy' or 'Bob the Builder' if it meant I'd get to feel what it was to be someone's dream for even one day.), Johnny's parents, and absolutely everyone else whether I've met them or not yet in the series.HIT ME! I've got my seat belt fastened and I'm ready to continue the ride!