Louise Collins
Author of The Freshman
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Works by Louise Collins
Rocked to Death 8 copies
Butterfly (Behind Bars #4) 4 copies
Freshman (Behind Bars, #1) 4 copies
Psychopath (Behind Bars #2) 3 copies
Rat (Behind Bars #3) 2 copies
The Viper 2 copies
Saving the Superman: Choices 2 copies
The Bond of Three: Part 1 & 2 2 copies
Jealous Dog (Jake & Maddox, 3.5) 2 copies
Guns and Shadows (Jake & Maddox, #4) 2 copies
The Bond of Three (Casio #1) 1 copy
Clay (Horny Horrors #1) 1 copy
Beauty and the Beast 1 copy
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- London, England, UK
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jesus… how in the ever-loving fuck did i manage to finish this one? i must’ve grown as a person recently, because goddamn, just a year ago i would say fuck this shit at about 5%.
it’s bad. honestly, it’s so, so bad. the writing, the story, the characters. i cannot find one good thing to say about this book right now. goes to show how you can never really trust the ratings. i’m leery of any stories taking place in prison (because so few of them have the facts right), so i admit the show more bar was set pretty high, but even i didn’t expect how bad it would get.
the writing's simply awful. it’s middle school-level, AT BEST. i feel like his book had no contact with any editor whatsoever. and it needs editing. it needs it ASAP. let’s be generous and forget all the typos, and the their-they're your-you’re mistakes - can find those in some of the best books, too, if the editor was lazy. however, the writing in here is perhaps the worst i’ve had the dubious pleasure of reading. ever. i feel like my eyes are bleeding. it’s chaotic, messy, and all over the place. the writer goes off on tangents - sometimes trying for humor, i think? - like this:
His nurse, Sally, poked her head through the curtain. Her hair was black and curly, and many times Alfie had found strands on his sheets and hoped they were from her head.
seriously? wondering about the nurse’s pubes on his pillow?when he’s just woken up after a car accident staged by his oh-so-dangerous lover, abandoned by the side of the road? seriously, what in the fuck?
at about 20%, i started highlighting - it made the experience a little more bearable, and gave me something to focus on. there’s something for everyone.
mixed metaphors (wound up like a spring ready to explode) were barely noticeable next to gems like these: fumes of desire, lustful bubble, SALIVATED AT THE CROTCH (no joke. i had to read this one twice), his sex hungry body, dirty sound of suction… the list could go on and on and ON. trying SO hard to be hot, it was just ridiculous.
there’s more. The shirt on the floor hissed angrily, His eyes burned and dropped tears, Tia breathed sadly though her nose.
angry hissing shirts, eyes that went and dropped tears, and sad nose breathing. just a few examples of what’s happening in this book.
He was being kidnapped by a man he had never seen before leaving out the completely unnecessary use of passive voice, if he was BEING kidnapped by a man he had seen before as opposed to that other one, it would be acceptable? after confronting this book and emerging at the other end, scarred but victorious, i can safely say that the MC would think so.
the two MCs… i did NOT like them (as well as alfie’s BFF, the sad nose-breather - remember her? she appeared give or take three times, but was annoying as fuck! come to think of it, the supporting characters were no different. the author tried too hard - and that’s a recurring theme in this one - to make them realistic, and got the exact opposite). unlikeable characters rarely are a deal-breaker for me, but combined with everything else, they were the final straw.
alfie was childish, needy, naive (if not plain stupid) and irritating. i get that he was young, but you'd think that growing up in the system would’ve given him some sort of a backbone, right? WRONG. he, and every single one of his idiot coworkers, were about as competent at their job as my 89 yo grandma would be. i’m all for suspension of disbelief, but come the fuck on. it’s not a kindergarten, it’s a fucking prison.
and nate? he was domineering, controlling and arrogant, but i liked him a bit more - maybe because he didn’t appear on every page like the other one? i have absolutely no idea what he saw in alfie, other than his sex hungry bod. but hey, after 10 years of imprisonment one can’t be too picky, eh?
i could go on at length, about how unbelievably low the level of security was (before writing a story that takes place in a prison, DO YOUR FUCKING RESEARCH!); how irresponsible it was for a guard to let a convicted murderer fondle him in the dark (because of a very convenient power outage) after seeing him ONE FUCKING TIME before that; how stupid it was to let that same convict fuck him with ZERO protection AND FALL ASLEEP IN HIS CELL - WHERE THE FUCK WAS EVERYONE ELSE - but as you can well see, it STILL manages to piss me off, and i’ve already wasted too much time on this… book. i'm done. show less
it’s bad. honestly, it’s so, so bad. the writing, the story, the characters. i cannot find one good thing to say about this book right now. goes to show how you can never really trust the ratings. i’m leery of any stories taking place in prison (because so few of them have the facts right), so i admit the show more bar was set pretty high, but even i didn’t expect how bad it would get.
the writing's simply awful. it’s middle school-level, AT BEST. i feel like his book had no contact with any editor whatsoever. and it needs editing. it needs it ASAP. let’s be generous and forget all the typos, and the their-they're your-you’re mistakes - can find those in some of the best books, too, if the editor was lazy. however, the writing in here is perhaps the worst i’ve had the dubious pleasure of reading. ever. i feel like my eyes are bleeding. it’s chaotic, messy, and all over the place. the writer goes off on tangents - sometimes trying for humor, i think? - like this:
His nurse, Sally, poked her head through the curtain. Her hair was black and curly, and many times Alfie had found strands on his sheets and hoped they were from her head.
seriously? wondering about the nurse’s pubes on his pillow?
at about 20%, i started highlighting - it made the experience a little more bearable, and gave me something to focus on. there’s something for everyone.
mixed metaphors (wound up like a spring ready to explode) were barely noticeable next to gems like these: fumes of desire, lustful bubble, SALIVATED AT THE CROTCH (no joke. i had to read this one twice), his sex hungry body, dirty sound of suction… the list could go on and on and ON. trying SO hard to be hot, it was just ridiculous.
there’s more. The shirt on the floor hissed angrily, His eyes burned and dropped tears, Tia breathed sadly though her nose.
angry hissing shirts, eyes that went and dropped tears, and sad nose breathing. just a few examples of what’s happening in this book.
He was being kidnapped by a man he had never seen before leaving out the completely unnecessary use of passive voice, if he was BEING kidnapped by a man he had seen before as opposed to that other one, it would be acceptable? after confronting this book and emerging at the other end, scarred but victorious, i can safely say that the MC would think so.
the two MCs… i did NOT like them (as well as alfie’s BFF, the sad nose-breather - remember her? she appeared give or take three times, but was annoying as fuck! come to think of it, the supporting characters were no different. the author tried too hard - and that’s a recurring theme in this one - to make them realistic, and got the exact opposite). unlikeable characters rarely are a deal-breaker for me, but combined with everything else, they were the final straw.
alfie was childish, needy, naive (if not plain stupid) and irritating. i get that he was young, but you'd think that growing up in the system would’ve given him some sort of a backbone, right? WRONG. he, and every single one of his idiot coworkers, were about as competent at their job as my 89 yo grandma would be. i’m all for suspension of disbelief, but come the fuck on. it’s not a kindergarten, it’s a fucking prison.
and nate? he was domineering, controlling and arrogant, but i liked him a bit more - maybe because he didn’t appear on every page like the other one? i have absolutely no idea what he saw in alfie, other than his sex hungry bod. but hey, after 10 years of imprisonment one can’t be too picky, eh?
i could go on at length, about how unbelievably low the level of security was (before writing a story that takes place in a prison, DO YOUR FUCKING RESEARCH!); how irresponsible it was for a guard to let a convicted murderer fondle him in the dark (because of a very convenient power outage) after seeing him ONE FUCKING TIME before that; how stupid it was to let that same convict fuck him with ZERO protection AND FALL ASLEEP IN HIS CELL - WHERE THE FUCK WAS EVERYONE ELSE - but as you can well see, it STILL manages to piss me off, and i’ve already wasted too much time on this… book. i'm done. show less
Like whitewater rafting for your mind
Hold on tight and prepare to be put through the wringer. The Rat was brilliant! It had a subtle intensity. There were times where I felt like I was drowning under the weight of Rory’s feelings. Yet it took a scene change for me to realise this. Louise Collins is the queen of prison romance novels
Hold on tight and prepare to be put through the wringer. The Rat was brilliant! It had a subtle intensity. There were times where I felt like I was drowning under the weight of Rory’s feelings. Yet it took a scene change for me to realise this. Louise Collins is the queen of prison romance novels
I loved this!!!
I'm used to flirty and sexy books by this author, but this was different. I wouldn't even say it was THAT dark.
There is a serial killer on the loose and Chad and his team try their damnedest to catch him. The build-up was slow, really slow. The first 10 or so chapters (about 25% of the book) focuses on the murder investigation. Other than that, what I gathered in that first part of the story is that our main character is no one special. He's not a hero type who busts down show more doors, jumps off buildings and whatnot. In my eyes he's a totally average guy with a nice, albeit dangerous job and he has a fiancé with a nice house. Sure he wants to be the big boss at his job eventually and he does his best to reach that goal, but he seems content. But this case ruins everything for him.
Time is running out and he makes a reckless decision, which lends him in trouble. "Homicide detective caught by the serial killer" would be the title of the Canster Times' article on the front page.
What I really liked is that this story felt more real than any other I read about Stockholm syndrome. I actually believed this could happen in reality. It's not like a fairytale, it's not OTT, but it's not too dark and twisted or gruesome either. Chad was chained up in a barn for a time and than relocated to a farmhouse. And at that time there wasn't anything sexual in their relationship. (And later there won't be much sex either, at least not what one would expect from a book like this). They were the killer and the detective, simple as that.
Chad wasn't pampered that much, just the necessary amount after an accident. He wasn't tortured. Romeo didn't try and bend him to his will. And then they got to talking and it turned out they like each other. Which was a problem.... but I feel this would have been a natural progression of a relationship in normal circumstances.
I really liked what the author created here. I never know what to expect from a story like this. So I'm always open to any kind of ending.
There is a little surprise at the end. Do you like crossword puzzles? I do! :D
P.S.: one more round of editing wouldn't have hurt, but I really loved this book, so I'm just ignoring that. show less
I'm used to flirty and sexy books by this author, but this was different. I wouldn't even say it was THAT dark.
There is a serial killer on the loose and Chad and his team try their damnedest to catch him. The build-up was slow, really slow. The first 10 or so chapters (about 25% of the book) focuses on the murder investigation. Other than that, what I gathered in that first part of the story is that our main character is no one special. He's not a hero type who busts down show more doors, jumps off buildings and whatnot. In my eyes he's a totally average guy with a nice, albeit dangerous job and he has a fiancé with a nice house. Sure he wants to be the big boss at his job eventually and he does his best to reach that goal, but he seems content. But this case ruins everything for him.
Time is running out and he makes a reckless decision, which lends him in trouble. "Homicide detective caught by the serial killer" would be the title of the Canster Times' article on the front page.
What I really liked is that this story felt more real than any other I read about Stockholm syndrome. I actually believed this could happen in reality. It's not like a fairytale, it's not OTT, but it's not too dark and twisted or gruesome either. Chad was chained up in a barn for a time and than relocated to a farmhouse. And at that time there wasn't anything sexual in their relationship. (And later there won't be much sex either, at least not what one would expect from a book like this). They were the killer and the detective, simple as that.
Chad wasn't pampered that much, just the necessary amount after an accident. He wasn't tortured. Romeo didn't try and bend him to his will. And then they got to talking and it turned out they like each other. Which was a problem.... but I feel this would have been a natural progression of a relationship in normal circumstances.
“I kept the magpie alive. I killed snails to feed it, as well as giving it scraps of bread, ham. It even ate cheese. At first the magpie pecked me every time I tried to feed it. It squawked, flapping its damaged wing, making it worse…” Chad thought back to the hazy days after he’d hurt his leg. He’d thrashed, cried out, moved to avoid Romeo’s hand every time he reached for him. He’d refused water, food, begged Romeo to end his suffering, to take the pillow and press it to his face. “Then …something happened, and it stopped fighting me. It let me feed it, let me close. Let me ease its suffering."
I really liked what the author created here. I never know what to expect from a story like this. So I'm always open to any kind of ending.
There is a little surprise at the end. Do you like crossword puzzles? I do! :D
P.S.: one more round of editing wouldn't have hurt, but I really loved this book, so I'm just ignoring that. show less
I misjudged this book.
It's dark, sure.
But what makes it dark is the setting and the psychological war that's going on inside Alfie's head. There's no blood and gore and torture, and stuff like that.
Other than that, it's pretty effing romantic! Nate seduced me with his purring "Freshman..." grrr ;P He's very intense.
Alfie is your typical Goody Two-shoes. He follows the rules and compassionate. And loyal, he just doesn't know who to be loyal to, and therein lies the problem. He is different show more than the other guards, because he doesn't threat them as trash, he sees the human in them and not the animal who did those crimes.
The back and forth between Nate and Alfie was fascinating to watch. How Alfie was trying to figure out if he was being played by the inmate, or if his interest in him is genuine or not.
And did I miss the part where Nate's age was mentioned, cuz I don't know. I put him around his early thirties. Which means there's at least a 12-year age gap.
I'm also not sure if it's possible to hire an 18-year old as a prison guard.
Also there were a few things that didn't make sense, like... shouldn't there be cameras in a prison?
I'm not well-versed in the prison-world, so I don't know these things.
The ending was wrapped up pretty fast, I wouldn't have minded an epilogue.
Overall I enjoyed it a lot. :D Recommended! show less
It's dark, sure.
But what makes it dark is the setting and the psychological war that's going on inside Alfie's head. There's no blood and gore and torture, and stuff like that.
Other than that, it's pretty effing romantic! Nate seduced me with his purring "Freshman..." grrr ;P He's very intense.
Alfie is your typical Goody Two-shoes. He follows the rules and compassionate. And loyal, he just doesn't know who to be loyal to, and therein lies the problem. He is different show more than the other guards, because he doesn't threat them as trash, he sees the human in them and not the animal who did those crimes.
The back and forth between Nate and Alfie was fascinating to watch. How Alfie was trying to figure out if he was being played by the inmate, or if his interest in him is genuine or not.
And did I miss the part where Nate's age was mentioned, cuz I don't know. I put him around his early thirties. Which means there's at least a 12-year age gap.
I'm also not sure if it's possible to hire an 18-year old as a prison guard.
Also there were a few things that didn't make sense, like... shouldn't there be cameras in a prison?
I'm not well-versed in the prison-world, so I don't know these things.
The ending was wrapped up pretty fast, I wouldn't have minded an epilogue.
Overall I enjoyed it a lot. :D Recommended! show less
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