Couldn't even finish it was so stupid. The writing was juvenile, the dialogue wretched and the editing very poor. For example : "My arms were stretched painfully taught." Come on! The sex scenes I made it through, seemed like they were written by a fourteen year old boy who hadn't actually had intercourse in his life and picked up sex ed from Hustler. I give you mad respect for writing a book. I can't, but this was putrid. ( )

This book is not for the faint!  Do not read it if you need a definite good guy ending or if you can't handle rape and torture and most of all mind-fucking.  I was recommended the title by a friend that knows I love truly dark reads.









Boy Next Door is probably the best, truest anti-hero book I've ever read.  Not only does it deal with all of these super taboo subjects and fetishes, but it also contains true psychological disorders.  In most dark reads, even though one of the leads starts out asshole-ish, the reader ends up being won over by later actions.  The lead changes, even though that doesn't condone everything they have done, we still forgive them.  In this book, the lead is pretty mental and probably not quite possible of true change, and many things that happen in the book are just unforgivable.  Yet...the author has totally warped me into having feelings for Brandon!  WTF!!  How did that happen?  Some of the scenes are still bothering me now.  Not all of the worst scenes involve the lead Brandon.  His whole family is pretty fucked up!


















toni




I loved it! My mind is still melted in a pool on the floor.
My review
http://fangirlmomentsandmytwocents.blogspot.com/2013/11/boy-next-door-by-emma-cl... ( )

Very poor, disturbing writing. So unrealistic it made me sick. I couldn't even finish reading it. ( )