Review: Emotional Paralysis
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 14, 2014
Part 1 of a 5 part serial. Will release entire book in JulyGalley provided by publisher via Net Galley for review on my blog from which this is adapted. No remuneration was exchanged and all opinion presented herein is my own except as noted. I also bought this.Like everything else I’ve read by Megan Hart this is unusual, edgy, replete with strange, wonderful and terrible characters and surgically dissecting of those characters. I forgot this was a serial, so when I hit the end I was incredibly confused. Whew! I am glad to see this weird story will continue.Elliot may be the strangest man Megan’s ever written. She wrote a man in Broken who was physically paralyzed. Elliot is emotionally paralyzed. Simone is tenacious as hell; I would have said “what a jerk!” Then I would have fumed about him probably forever.The world in which this series is happening, a large city, skyscrapers, wealthy socialites, movers and shakers having parties where there are girls to be had, easily. This is not a world I like. It feels cold and, even for those in it, it feels cold and unwelcoming.The turnarounds here, the assumptions torn out of my head about who was what – now those are worth reading for.I have not taken on the additional books in the serial. But, eventually I will read them. Everything Megan writes is expertly crafted with a kinky bent. Her writing is uninhibited, she doesn’t mind having her characters be rude in speech or action; she is unconventional, fresh, unusual.