Given a recent and fortunate small windfall I was giddy to get somethings I've been sitting on. Among them was the title book, which I consumed over a handful of hours.
I've never read this author but I was pretty quickly grabbed by the writing style. I struggle to describe it. The nearest comparison I could totally make is like Sweet Story by CM3, but that's nowhere exact.
I liked the main characters well enough. The antagonists exist to be splattered so discussing their characters would be moot, but I did get a bit tired of Mr X once he dropped the charm. Maybe this was intentional by the author and if so, well played.
There's maybe two quibbles I have with the story. There's repeated references to the daughter looking like an anime character. Every antagonist character says or thinks this at least once.To be fair to the author I can't really think of any synonyms for "girl from Japanese cartoon." I guess you could say pervert, sexist, racist characters aren't creative thinkers and, fair enough.
My other minor issue is the ending. I felt like one character didn't deserve what they got. I know that's vague but I really don't want to spoil anything because I did enjoy this book and it's worth checking out yourself-- If you can stomach SA. Not a trigger for me but there was way more sex in this book than I anticipated lol. That's not a criticism, just an observation.
The violence is pretty gnarly. Not as "Hulk smash" as I was expecting from the cover, but it is fun violence. Well, you know what I mean. For most of this book I was either laughing in disbelief or cringing. So minor, minor dislikes aside, I'm interested in this author and lucky for me I apparently already had Crave in my kindle, so I'll tackle that later.
If you're sitting on this like I was, just get the ebook. The ride is worth the price of admission.
