Review: Yay for dark, trauma, and guts/glory!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 8, 2014
Good enemies to lovers stories with more than a touch of brutality are hard to find. There's kind of a whole fluff crowd of them, which I enjoy, but then there is the rough take-no-prisoner type that you so rarely find (think Special Forces). The one that pits two huge alpha guys against each other and where the sex is part of the fighting. The characters can be enigmatic and they are certainly not really relatable to some degree. They are engaging and Merq's viewpoint works pretty well. However the one thing missing is that we don't ever get Amrise's POV and somehow this does not feel at all complete without it. In many books one POV is just fine - I think this one needs both because the character motivations and realizations are complex, deep, and nuanced and not being able to understand one of them very well puts you a bit off kilter. I'm reading the second in the series and so far that remains unchanged.I enjoy the writing and, in particular, feel the five senses are very well done here.  You get a real idea of the environment from more than just Merq's eyes which enhances your investment in the story. I really enjoyed it - and this is a series where #2, #3, etc.  will not languish in my TBR pile for a long time!