Review: Evan Tortured
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2014
Otherwise Occupied (Evan Arden Trilogy #2)By: Shay Savage5/5 starsHitman, Evan Arden is back in business for Mob Boss, Rinaldo Moretti. But he is not whole. He left a piece of his heart in the Arizona desert, Lia Antonio. He spent one sex-filled, lust-crazed night her, before she went to her mother’s to fill her in on the situation with her ex-boyfriend and he was called back to Chicago.Forewarning to future readers… You will not see Lia until the very end of this book. This was not upsetting to me, but other readers found it to be so. But this is Evan’s story and we learn so much more about his past and how it is affecting his current situation.As a USMC POW in the Middle East, Evan Arden was mentally & physically tortured for 18 months and was left with a lot of scars on the inside resulting in PTSD. After being declared unfit for duty and honorably discharged, he was hooked up with Rinaldo Moretti. But after being exiled in the Arizona desert and one night with a woman he can’t forget; his nightmares of captivity return.Evan of course has several jobs to complete for Rinaldo, but he has trouble being able to concentrate because he’s not sleeping. He’s not sleeping because of the nightmares only allowing him less than an hour or two a night and it’s been getting worse.Evan ends up hiring a hooker, Bridgett, mainly just to spend the night sleeping beside him. There were some sexual acts, but not sex itself. Bridgett wants more out of the situation than Evan will give her. He constantly reminds her that she is nothing more than a whore whom he pays for her company.Evan’s sleeping habits worsen, causing his already fragile psyche to become brittle. No longer sure of who he can or cannot trust, his dreams intensify, and it seems as though many people are not as loyal as they portray themselves to be. And due to his lack of sleep, his brain is also not functioning at a high capacity.When everything comes to a head, Lia happens to witness him at his worst. Their story continues in Otherwise Unharmed!