Review: 5 Totally Twisted Stars
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 5, 2013
Please be warned…this is not a soft, fluffy book.  This book is dark, demented, twisted, and sadistic.  No glitter, no hearts and flowers….no happily ever after.Joseph Fallen is the prequel to Madeleine Abducted.Joseph Carmichael….a young man in love.  A young man who would do anything for his beautiful new wife, Ariana Carmichael…..anything.  He wants to give her the world and shower her with all the riches it beholds.  He will stop at nothing to give this to her.  Absolutely nothing…..he is consumed with his love for her.It is in this prequel that we learn of the Estate.  What it is, how it started….how Joseph morphed into a monster fueled byPowerGreedCrimeDrugsSexAnd ultimately HatredAriana has become trapped in a hell she never could have imagined.Marrying Joseph had been a dream. He was loyal, loving, a doting husband. All she ever wanted, she was given....including everything she didn't care to have.A monstrous estateMoney Money MoneyFine clothes, shoes, jewelryShe was expected to be his trophy wife, to stand by his side proudly....to stay at home and produce an heir for Joseph's mounting fortune and his empire.Slowly, Joseph becomes controlling, demanding, paranoid, rough, and cold. His need for a child bore heavily on his mind....and his wife's inability to provide that child caused nothing but bitterness.As Joseph slips further and further from the man she once loved, Ariana turns to her piano, her music....and her guard. Regardless of how much of herself she gives to Joseph, she can never please him...because she has failed to give him the one thing his heart desires the most.The things that Joseph was capable of doing...and being OK with....terrifying. That ending....I wanted to vomit...but in a good way...if vomiting could ever be good.To think that Joseph could do that....to the one person he claimed to love more than life itself....This story is dark, twisted, gripping, heartbreaking, cruel, and horrifying. I was left in the fetal position on the floor....in shock.Wow....just...WOW. My heart truly hurt for Ariana.What a story.