Review: Wow, Marata's Best Yet! I Want Him!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 27, 2013
Before you even THINK of reading A Brutal Tenderness, pick up and read A Terrible Love by Marata Eros, as it is crucial to truly feeling every brutally raw emotion, thought, sight and action that cascades through our hero's POV. Told from Undercover Agent "Cas" Steele's POV after two long years of watching the woman he blames for his cousin's death, resenting her, yet not quite comfortable with using her as bait to trap a deranged killer, he is completely unprepared for his soul-deep reaction to finally coming face to face with the beautiful, vulnerable Jewell MacLeod. His assignment was to use whatever means available to dangle Jewell on a hook, like raw meat baiting a hungry lion. Looking into her eyes, seeing beyond her faade, his primal need to protect, possess and cherish every part of her begins an epic battle with his `duty' as an agent and his need for revenge. Which side will win? Either way, part of Cas could be forever broken and he's terrified.Marata Eros pulls no punches, leaves no emotion unscathed. The world she has created is dark, dangerous, yet sensual and beautifully painful at times. Cas is far deeper than his overwhelmingly powerful , bad boy exterior, as his mental anguish shows. There isn't a character involved that isn't given a flesh and blood feel and each scene is detailed with a keen eye to drama and sensual awareness. You WILL be inside Cas's head.This was a difficult book review to do. Why? You ask? Obviously, I loved everything about A Brutal Tenderness, but I couldn't find the words to describe how deeply Marata Eros's gift for pouring it all out there, shredding it down to pure human need and raw emotion got to me. I could feel HER deep attachment to her work. Marata Eros has a distinctive style and voice that shines through all of her works and just screams READ ME, read me, AGAIN! And I obey.