Review: ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 14, 2014
SUMMER'S BOOK BLOGLet me start this review off by saying OH MY GOSH WHAT DID I READ? I am a HUGE Lily White fan but this one will be hard for Ms. White to top!Lucas Bates is a best-selling author of dark erotica and is working on his next book. The problem is he can’t finish without finding a muse… a voice for this character who has been silenced and whose story needs to be told.But not just anyone will do.No, for this specific story he needs to dive deeper, to find someone whose mind is so closed off to the taboo that they never see the lesson that is handed to them. He needs to get into the mind of the victim and understand what it feels to have everything taken away, to be broken down and humiliated only to be put back together.While at the library he finds the girl he has been searching for- the one he can’t wait to him call ‘Master’.“She was a virgin to the taboo; a woman surrounded in light that she thought would protect her from the shadows.I was about to show her what she was missing.I wouldn’t stop until I had her. She was a project that was too hard to resist. She was a character that needed to be developed – and an angel that needed to fall.”Autumn is prude… prim… and proper. Keeping to herself she is a librarian that loves anything with a happy ending. After arriving at work one morning she runs into a man, who although is very handsome, makes her feel on edge. Ignoring her gut instinct she takes him to the section of the library he is searching for to help track down a book on serial killers. Obviously uncomfortable with the subject matter she decides to plead her case when it comes to books she feels serve no purpose.Books that have no hope in them… no love… no happy ending.Their first exchange is intense as she explains to him that she would rather the library not carry books about killers, rapists, abuse and anything of the erotic nature. After he accuses her of being in favor of censorship their argument escalates from there.“Are you one of those who is in favor of censorship?”She turned back to me immediately, her scowl deepening as her hands came up to rest on her hips.“No. I disapprove of censorship, unless of course someone writes something that is so disgusting that it is offensive or crude. What if someone picks up that book and decides to emulate the character or act out the horrid scenes? What if a child mistakenly comes across it and thinks it’s normal to behave in the ways some of those characters behave?”What Lucas wants to know now is how it feels to be targeted.Have you ever read that book that holds you right on the edge of what you think you can handle… that book that makes you think “Will I be the same person after reading this?” I love tempting that dangerous line and wondering when the other shoe is about to drop…Lily White once again has given us an amazing, mind blowing read with ‘Target This’. This book, while having a clear message about censorship, is riddled with hidden meanings, messages, and lessons that every woman needs to read. The way she manages to write her story within Lucas’s story is brilliant and the two authors work flawlessly together, almost as if they are one in the same person.It’s said that in all of Lucas’ books the victims were given the tools they needed for survival and Autumn was no different. He handed her everything she needed, she just never looked deeper. Although the things he did to her were despicable, he forced her to open her mind and save herself. She had to let go to finally be free. In a really twisted way what Lucas did for Autumn was beautiful.I haven’t made mention of the secondary characters because I am trying really hard not to give anything away but they are a major part of this story. Without them this would just be another cat and mouse book.Lily twisted and turned the readers so many times that by the end I wasn’t even sure which way was up. My mind was completely blown and my heart was torn to shreds, but hey, she did give me a fair warning at the beginning of the book!If you have never dived into a dark romance or even thought about tipping a toe into one I would advise this be your first. This book is so far beyond an amazing story, it’s a lesson to all women that even though we would like to be Autumn’s of the world and live in the light we have to know there is darkness out there, leaking and waiting for someone to target. Someone who is too oblivious to see it coming. This is the book I would give my best friend, my neighbor and most of all my daughter before going away to college.Watch carefully for the messages that lie in this book… they may just save a life.