Genre:
Psychological Thriller
Description:
“Already a killer, thirteen-year-old Michael Romanov jumps at the
opportunity to please his father. Attaining financial independence while
indulging in deliberate depravity is an unexpected bonus.
This dark story paints a corrupt man’s twisted demands from a son
obsessed with gaining a father’s love and respect.”
Author:
“AB read at birth according to her mother. At age four, her public
librarian rejected her application for a card. She was too short to see over
the desk.
She stormed home undeterred. Older neighbor kids and loads of cousins
provided a fix for her reading obsession. She traded them dolls and colors and
small trinkets for scary comic books.
Years of teaching adolescent boys and working with high-testosterone
tekkies fuel her interest in neuroanatomy and behavioral psychology. The terror
those comics imprinted in her brain surfaces regularly.
Her dark, psychological thrillers probe the impact of the family on wounded
hearts. She still holds public librarians in high esteem.”
Appraisal:
If you don’t like dark and twisted, this isn’t the book for you. But
if you don’t mind an occasional excursion to the dark side, it might be. The
protagonist of the story, Michael, may only be thirteen, but he’s way beyond
his years in intelligence. I don’t think calling him a psychopath would be
going too far either. Yeah, he may have a lot of advantages in some ways, but
he’s still one sick puppy.
I could have easily found it impossible to like Michael or care what
happened to him. Luckily (for me, not for Michael) the people and situations he
had to deal with were bad enough that I could pull for any thirteen-year-old to
make it through. Not even Michael deserves to go through stuff like that.
Intense. Dark. Twisted. If that appeals, this is for you.
FYI:
While this is the third book in a series I haven’t read the first two
and didn’t feel like this made it hard to follow what was happening in this
installment. It can definitely be read as a stand-alone.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No significant issues.
Rating:
**** Four Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate
word count: 35-40,000 words
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