Review: Dark and Twisted Yet Gripping
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 25, 2014
I should imagine that like many others I was eager to read this book to see if it was as darkly fascinating as her previous work, Her Masters Courtesan. This was unfortunately not the case as it was a collaboration. It was however very good. It was dark, just not as dark as I had been hoping.We have a tattooed, scared man with a mental illness and a tattooed, alcoholic woman with demons of her own. Eleni works in a bar, goes to school and gets drunk. She doesn’t let people get close to her and she doesn’t do relationships, she does quick hook ups in toilet stools. Gabriel is a traumatised reclusive man who on a chance meeting with Eleni becomes obsessed with her from a distance.When Gabriel’s inner demons take over it leads to a very dark and yet gripping story. You can’t help but feel sorry for the pair of them due to what they are going through now and what they have goen through in their respective pasts.There is a twist in the book that I have to admit that I just did not see coming. This twist is a touch of genius. I loved the epilogue of the book. It wasn’t the ending that I was expecting with Lily White being involved but with the battles that the characters had gone through was perhaps a justified one. It was by no means a set in stone HEA. The characters still had battles to face as do any with mental illness, but it was a believable one for me.All in all a read that is hard to get out of your mind once you have read the last word. There aren’t many books that I can say this about but it would appear that when Lily White is involved this will definitely be the case.Please note I was given a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.