Review: A dark, twisted love
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 15, 2013
This is really nice and dark, twisted and so wrong, but if you're a fan of dark erotica, a fan of capture theme and coercion, then you love reading that wrongness, just as I do. You remember Carlos from the previous two books. Just recall how he treated Rachel and Mia. He's a cold killer, a sexual deviant, a man evil and determined to do the wrong of every right. How can I be pulled to Carlos? But I was. I wanted him to kidnap Samantha. Was ready for it, eager for it. I wanted to see how they would interact, how he would treat her, this woman who actually longs to be mistreated, punished.And then there is Ian to watch and observe, a fine older man, edgy but on the right side of good. A man who is Carlos's opposite and a man Sam is developing a crush on. Ian is a bit older than Sam, and Sam is a girl with definite daddy issues. She's a junior FBI agent now assigned to be Ian's rookie partner on Carlos's case. Sam feels a strong pull to Ian as they work together. He's tall, sexy, and maybe a little hardened, a man in charge and in authority. Ian makes Sam want to have normal, to be normal, but that's one thing the reader soon sees about Sam: she's not a normal girl. Maybe never was, and probably never had a hope of being one.For all that I liked, and even loved, Carlos and Ian, I think the true character of this piece is Sam. The girl is messed up. She knows it, too. It's kind of scary how she works it, how she deals with it, and how she fools herself sometimes. A tragic childhood, one of all sorts of trauma, has left a black mark on Sam. Pretty on the outside, seemingly whole and confident and able, but so dark and broken on the inside, and she wants desperately for the outside to match the inside. She is really something else, very complicated and confusing.And the question is, where will Sam fall in this spectrum of good and bad that is Ian and Carlos? I think this author excels at finding that tight, uncomfortable place between right and wrong, between good and bad. She squeezes you in there, whether you like it or not. DON'T LET GO is psychological, edgy and erotic, a dark romance that makes you wonder what you just read and how you could possibly even like it. A very good, dark read.