Sabrina's Reviews > Absolution

3.5 'Sin and Blood' Stars

It's a week after reading this book and my mind is still wondering what the fuck I read. This book was beyond dark and gritty, it was demented and sadistic, yet I couldn't get enough of it! The crazy part about this book is that it made me laugh a few times. Sure the heroine, Evelyn, was completely batshit crazy, but I must admit there were also times her craziness was a little humorous. Did I just admit to being insane???



Evelyn is a killer. She kills for her God and to rid the world of the evil in it. In her world, you must be punished and suffer the pain of God in order to be forgiven, and if you sin then you must die. She see's herself as God's sin, and she does his work to rid the world of sinners. Which includes Ezra...so why isn't he dead yet?

Ezra is a criminal, he pimps out whore's to be used by his clients in any way imaginable. To him, it's just business and he doesn't care that it may not me morally right. When he see's Evelyn kill a man, it stirs something inside of him, and makes him want to own her. But his personal rule is that he doesn't fuck whore's...so why is Evelyn in his bed?



I don't know what it is about these two authors but when they get together, they create some fucked up shit, and this book is the perfect example of that. I loved every minute of it though, and these characters were so damaged that they somehow were perfect for each other. Even through the very messed up shit that was happening in this story, it was sad and emotional, and even romantic in it's own crazy way.

"We must be broken before we can be fixed, and now, I will fix Evie because she is mine."

Ezra and Evelyn were completely unhinged but I actually felt for their characters and even connected to them on some level. Their relationship, for lack of better word, moved quickly but was well developed. Through the need to possess Evelyn, it was clear that Ezra started to care for her, and I really liked that part of them together. The two of them are far from your normal MC's but that was part of their charm, and what made this book so interesting and erotic.



The only problem I had with this story was the ending. I didn't like how Ezra's character seemed to change at the very end because it just didn't make sense to me. We see him being this sick, sadistic control freak, and at the end he just wasn't the same, he was a little sweeter out of no where. If I saw a gradual change of character I would have been fine with it, but since it was like a switch was turned and he changed really fast, I didn't like it.

Bottom line, if you like very dark, deranged stories, this is the one for you. I promise you that you will not be disappointed. There are a lot of dark books out there now and I've become used to them, so it takes a lot for me to think a story is actually dark. But this book is one that still has me questioning what the fuck I read.