Review: 4.5 Dark and Now I NEED Therapy stars
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2014
I keep going back and forth between 4 and 4.5 torturous stars!I was given this ARC for an honest review.I love the Estate. I love M.S. Willis. I love Xander in Madeleine, Abducted.I really liked the book.When Hope's twin sister, Honor, is abducted and held as a sex slave, Hope has no choice but to kill Aaron in order to get her sister back. As a top notch assassin, Hope plans her attack, but circumstances lead her to fail and thus be thrown into the mercy of the Estate. Xander is Aaron's right hand man and "brother". To say he is upset over an assassination attempt is not worded strongly enough. It is up to Xander to find out Hope's motives and carry out the punishments. The struggle to the end is intense but definitely worth the ride!I struggled with Hope and then Hope and Xander's relationship. The torture in this book is no joke. I just cringed at times with the horrible acts committed. The way M.S. Willis writes and the flowing of her words makes you think something beautiful is happening when really the most horrendous acts are being performed. Honor is who most piqued my interest in this book. I kept thinking about her more than Hope. I wanted Xander to be more badass like in MA.I think I'm messed up in the head a bit too because I think I struggled with Hope so much because she wasn't this innocent flower being tortured. Is it messed up that I didn't like her because she was so... strong? A strong female lead turned me off... I need therapy. This is what happens when you begin living at the Estate.