Finished Reading February 11, 2019

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Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Erotica, Romance, and a new category for me, Psychology/Mental Illness
?????Stars I have no clue what to rate this. I will decide.....Eventually!
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4 stars

This book is broken down into 3 parts.

The 1st part is about 'The Monster', Grant, the male MC.
This part I loved. You really get into Grant's head and he really digs his way into your heart.

The 2nd part is about Renata 'The Mouse', our female MC.
While I loved most of this, the last few chapters in her part have repetition & I abhor repetition. Her story will also get to you. The last few chapters though cost this story a partial star due to my abhorrence of the repetition I mentioned above. It slows everything down.

Up to that point the flow was great & moved beautifully.

The 3rd part is about both Renata & Grant. Their interaction with each other.
While I loved most of it, there is a lot more repetition and I did NOT like the way it ended. It felt ........ Contrived. Rushed. Awkward. I felt like there should have been another chapter and the whole conversation had an 'Unfinished' or 'Unrefined' quality to it.

The repetition and this last scene is what caused the most loss of stars.

This story is very 'Mentally' & emotionally weighty. It is compelling to say the least. While I would recommend it to my friends who love adult romance, I would be very careful to watch for triggers. There are a lot of them in this story.

Do not go into reading this book lightly!

I recommend you have a light, funny, fluffy story ready to read for when you are done with this. You will be 'Perplexed' (to steal a GR friends word), 'Disconcerted' and even 'Bewildered'.
This story is 'VERY' complex. Psychologically Mind Bending.

It is definitely an adult read with intimate scenes. The subject matter and the triggers that this story deals with should not be in the hands of the immature. I will not put an age on that.

This ends on a cliffhanger & I forgot about that before I started reading it. I HATE CLIFFHANGERS!

I was going to wait a long time before I started reading the 2nd book in this 'Trilogy', but now that my brain has reset itself I have changed my mind. I will continue it in the near future.

Don't say you haven't been warned. This book will Scramble your Brain.

Purchased from Amz June 15, 2018 ( )

This is my first André Chevalier book and I have to say that there were parts of this book that I hated (the first 50%) and part of the booked that I loved (the last 50%) it took me forever to get through the first half but I was hooked. So I guess I did not hate it I just felt like it kept going and going and going and going. You get what I mean but as it was going it was delayed, derailed, and on a whole other path then where that the book finally ended up. In the end it was a brilliant read and I am glad that I stuck through it!
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