Annmarie

So right off the bat I identify with the female main character. I have my own reasons for this. And I'm not going to go into a big detail about it.

However that being said, I understood the female character. And insanely enough I understood the main male character as well.

This is an insanely dark story. The reason I gave it three stars, and I realized that this is probably not a popular opinion but, the reason is for one, the story kind of becomes tedious after a while. Your left wanting to press the fast forward button so to speak. We get it that they had this insane Quasimodo romance. Of pain and torture and pleasure and blah blah blah. We get it. It would have been better if there was a little bit more substance to it. Like taking her out in public let's say. See how that dynamic worked. However it was a good story. It was well written, for the most part. And I found myself disturbed yes, but wanting to read to the end to see what happens next.

The reason that it lost another star for me is because of the ending. There was no tying it up. There was no ending. There was this Cliffhanger without the promise of anything in the future. So to me their story isn't finished. But judging by the afterward from the author, it would appear that the story is done. And honestly it left me unsatisfied. I want to see what comes next. And honestly there's no promise of that. There's not even a hint.

I really would have loved to have seen Vincent become possessive of this girl, and of course he did but still, and then find out what causes her panic attacks. And then dealt with it. To me Ben and her mother just got off with not even a swipe to the ass. What happened to our heroine should have been dealt with. There should have been some form of revenge. Honestly when Vincent came and took her out into the woods I thought that's what was going to happen. That whole scene just does not make sense to me. Now if he had brought her out there to deal with her stepfather ,I guess would be the term, then yeah I could have seen it but that whole poppy thing just didn't make sense. And the fact that they let Ben get away with everything he did to her just kind of irks me. I'm telling you right now if I were her and I had the chance to make that asshole pay, I would have. In the most imaginative ways possible. So I'm kind of left on satisfied about that too.

For a debut book, it was really well written. And I would be interested to see what else comes from this author's mind. There was a lot of inflection. So it makes me wonder if the author has suffered through some form of abuse yourself. And I was addicted to finding out what happens next. If not for the lulling, and the lack of substance I suppose is a good word, this would have been a great book. And of course the ending just was I don't know. It wasn't satisfying. But other than those two things that just kind of drove me insane, I enjoyed the book. It was dark as it was.… (altro)