Review: A Real Kindle Gripper
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2013
I love Melissa Mayberry's writing! I don't recall ever having such a love/hate relationship with a main character. The character, Mel Quinn, is quite complex. I wanted her to find love. I wanted her to find happiness. It was right there within her grasp, then she does everything she possibly can to destroy. So I'm screaming at the pages: No, Mel! Don't do it!!! Does she listen? Hell no. But what did occur was I was kept glued to my seat and turning pages to find out what she would do next and how it would all pan out. What a rollercoaster of emotions this book sets in motion.Arien and Sandy both want Mel. And she wants them. And then she doesn't. And then she wants one of them — no not that one, the other one. And just when I settle in and think, "I can live with that," Mel Quinn hits the 'shit hit the fan' button and it all blows up — until she decides, okay, maybe it is the other one after all. It becomes emotional torment for the reader and makes for an extraordinary story.Ms. Mayberry uses her superior skill to take a character who one could easy dismiss and say, "Serves you right, wench," but instead has the reader eating out of her hand, willing Mel to come to her senses and stop working toward her own self destruction. I could often feel myself gripping my kindle tighter as the tension and drama increased. She did what an author is supposed to do, and brought the reader into the story. A true talent.I loved it!