Review: Dark and complicated and I could not stop reading
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2014
OMG, Jack! I need the next book, Breakdown, right now. And I mean RIGHT NOW. Now?This book killed me. I am not kidding.Dark, dark, dark. So freaking dark. These boys I love so much battered and abused, and getting more messed up by the day.I hate you sometimes, Jack L. Pyke.But I love you.The thing with this author is... she doesn't over-explain. She doesn't feed you the story as if you're a bit dim-witted. She lets the events unfold the way they do while you read frantically and question and try to keep up, your mind busy spinning the details and trying to figure things out. This is GOOD. This is amazing. It keeps me turning pages, keeps me obsessed with the story long after I've finished it. Jack makes me work for it, and I absolutely love that. I am completely engaged and enamored with Gray and Jan and Jack. So much so that I may have to read the complementary book, Forgive Us (Deliver Us) by Lynn Kelling, because Kelling borrowed these characters from Pyke and sent them to her club in America, and I just can't miss out on that.I only had one complaint, and that was the month of December seemed freakishly long. But it's very possible that it was intended to feel that way, cuz lots of icky stuff happened. Lots and lots and lots.My heart shattered into sharp little pieces at the unexpected use of a safeword. I can't possibly say more than that without it being a major spoiler, so here I stop. I adored Don't... and purchased it in paperback immediately after reading it. I'm pretty sure I'll have to hold Antidote in my hands, as well.Mean, mean Jack L. Pyke. But brilliant.