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Average rating3.6
"I haven't touched a human in three years. That seems like it would be a difficult task, but it's not. Not anymore, thanks to the internet. I am, quite possibly, the most popular recluse ever. Not many shut-ins have a 200-member fan club, a bank account in the seven-figure range, and hundreds of men lining up to pay for undivided attention. They get satisfaction, I get a distraction. Their secret desires are nothing compared to why I hide... my lust for blood, my love of death. Taking their money is easy. Keeping all these secrets... one is bound to escape. What if you hid yourself away because all you could think of was killing? And what if one girl's life depending on you venturing into society? Enter a world of lies, thrills, fears, and all desires, in this original thriller from A. R. Torre"--
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Initial Thoughts”
This was a very different genre than what I typically read and I'm surprised that once I got used to it that I was intrigued. This definitely did remind me of a female Dexter and it was interesting to see how Deanna hid herself from society until she believed she was the only one who could help.
Good premise and a quick read, but it's just missing something.
Maybe a bit more of the past, a bit more about her “affliction”, a bit less of her profession, who knows :/
Suspension of belief required...
I'm in two minds about this book - whilst it did keep me intrigued and I read it very quickly, I felt like it was a book of two starkly different halves. The first half was overloaded with erotica which cut off completely at the half way mark when Deanna leaves the apartment. Obviously I'm not saying I expected it to carry on after it left, it hardly could, but perhaps there was just too much of it in the first half that the switch over felt very sudden. I did enjoy Deanna as a character, she is complex and weird and actually tries to deal with her problems. On the negative side I honestly had some moments of just utter disbelief, you do have to take this book at it's surface level and just enjoy it for what it is rather than trying to delve too deeply into what else it means. All in all a fairly gripping (erotic) thriller that requires a little suspension of belief.