Yeah, I fell off. But I’m here now. I’m not going to even
write about feelings. We are all up to our eye balls in emotions. There is
nothing I have to offer that you can’t probably find online.
I’m going to take it old school and write about books. It
took me a minute to get on the reading bandwagon. Many people in my FB book
groups said they thought they’d sit around reading all the time since we had to
stay at home, but didn’t. Most cited lack of focus as the problem. I rose my
hand and said, “Yup. Same here.”
I wrote a post asking for book recommendations that weren’t
apocalyptic/dystopian or too happy in hopes that would help. I couldn’t handle
happy. I had two Emma Scott books on my TBR list and thought, “Oh noooo. That
lady is the queen of making you cry then giving you a ridiculously happy ending.”
I’ve finally come to a place where I can burn my Sunday up
binge reading a trilogy. And I found the right genre. The Mind Fuck.
The Blood and Bone trilogy by Tara Brown. OMG. Total Mind
Fuck. I spent half the books unsure if I was in reality or not. Kinda like Never
Never by Coleen Hoover. There is a distortion of reality going on with the
characters and the reader is drug into it.
The MC is awesome! She works for some super-secret unnamed
government agency. Sounds far-fetched, but her character is so bad ass it seems
probable. She’s an assassin and very unapologetic about it. The point of the
story is not that she change her ways. She is “an eye for eye” to the last page.
I liked that about her and the way Tara Brown wrote her.
he was also a bit fragile in private moments alone. The
character wasn’t one dimensional. The reader gets to see that she has many
sides to her and how life molded her into this person. She also has two
different colored eyes that becomes critical to the story. Doesn’t make sense, right?
That’s what is so cool about the whole series!
I def had a good amount of triggers and I don’t go too too dark
with my romance. This series felt like it was often skirting the edge of my
comfort level. Some may find it not a big deal at all. For me, I
was always unsure if I could keep reading. It never went to a point that I had
to put the book down. That skirted edge made the story much more compelling for
me. Again, it may be chump change to some. If you can handle the Deliver series
by Pam Godwin this will be nothing for you. I couldn’t handle that series which
sucked because I like Pam’s writing quite a bit.
Anyhoo, there is a love story. It isn’t front and center, yet
it was crucial to the story. I’m putting
the link below. It’s on KU if you have that. I can’t rave enough, but I have to
go back to work. Booooo…..
