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530 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 9, 2015
But that's what happens when you shoot at something impenetrable.
It ricochets.
“You are the violence inside of me...My most exquisite destruction.”
I hated what I’d become. Thief. Kidnapper. Killer. Bastard.
“I’m not going to let you break me, Nick. Not with your kiss. Not with your touch. Too long, I’ve survived, to let you tear down my guard. I’ll survive you, too.”
“I don’t want easy and uncomplicated. I want love that makes me fucking insane and irrational. I want to drown in it and never come back up for air.”
“How far do you want to go?”
“Until you feel free.”
“You’ve ignited a flame inside of me, Pistol Lips….I will obliterate any motherfucker who lays a hand on you again. I’d kill for you.” Nick
“Cage a bird that once felt the wind through its feathers and the world beneath is feet, and you’d find that insane glint of hope in its eyes that enticed it to escape every time the door swung open. Even if it could no longer fly, it’d never stop vying for its freedom, and neither would I.” Aubree
“Every scar told a story, but it was the ones we didn’t want others to see that told a truth.” Nick
“Apart, we were nothing more than two broken halves, but together, our jagged edges fit perfectly, sealed into something whole again.” Aubree
“Light exploded behind my eyes, rippling through my body like an aftershock. Blinding pleasure trailed it, coating my hot muscles trailed it, coating my hot muscles with a cook tingle that left me numb, weakened. I called out his name, and when he pulled out of me, his body shuddered, breaths broken by moans and curses.” Aubree
“She felt small and right, her curves pressed into my body in all the right places. Together, our bodies melded perfectly, like two halves of a whole. Paired with her words from moments ago, a realization struck me. We fit the only way two fucked up people could possibly fit together.” Nick
“I saw darkness in her beauty, and she saw beauty in my darkness.” Nick
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'To defeat a monster, I had to become one.'
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"You make me dream things I shouldn't dream. Crave things I shouldn't crave. My weakness." His lips slanted over mine in a kiss that stole my breath. "You'll destroy me, Aubree. And I won't stop you."
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'I saw darkness in her beauty, and she saw beauty in my darkness. Yin and yang. Black and white. Beauty and scars; fury and forgiveness.'
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“A dark angel, with blood on his hands and fire in his eyes.”
“Monsters did exist. They didn't hide under the bed, though. They stormed through the fucking door and stole away everything we loved.”
“The man was like a finely crafted blade -- lean, beautiful and dangerous enough to cut me to the bones, if I wasn't careful.”
“I don’t want easy and uncomplicated. I want love that makes me fucking insane and irrational. I want to drown in it and never come back up for air.”
'A dark angel, with blood on his hands and fire in his eyes'
4.5 STARS
You punch a brick in the wall, your knuckle bleed.
You shoot a gun, it recoils.
You destroy a man’s life, he seeks revenge.
An eye for an eye.
Anger was where I felt alive. I needed it to survive, to feed some twisted, charred part of my soul which I’d been waiting for a plan, craving something I couldn’t formulate inside my own head.
“The stars in the sky are the souls of people we love. They shine so bright not even the night can hide them. And when we’re lost they guide us.”
“Will you be a star someday, Daddy?”
He'd become my rescuer, my savior. A dark angel, with blood on his hands and fire in his eyes.
Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured in the same manner:
fracture for fracture,
eye for eye,
tooth for tooth-
Leviticus 24:20
“Monsters did exist. They didn't hide under the bed, though.
They stormed through the fucking door and stole away
everything we loved.”
“I don’t want easy and uncomplicated. I want love that makes me
fucking insane and irrational. I want to drown in it and
never come back up for air.”
“Perhaps Nick and I were opposites in life, as he said,
but in pain, we were the same. Two broken halves, with jagged edges
that seemed to fit together in some messed up way.”
***3.5 stars***I was unsure about rating this book for a long time-it wasn’t bad, I liked it for the most parts but certain elements didn’t work out for me. Let me break down this review to my likes and dislikes!
"To defeat a monster, I had to become one."It was gripping, angsty and very much dark, author did not try to sugar coat any horrendous event I mean, at times I had to take a break just to stomach certain act of violence and non-consent sex! Kudos to the author for delivering such a raw-gritty-dark story.