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By K. Webster

ISBN# 9781547014170

Author’s Website:  authorkwebster.com

Brought to you by OBS reviewer Heidi

Review

“Sometimes love isn’t black or white. Sometimes love isn’t even in color.

For me, love is red.

Bloody, dripping, bright, and crimson.

Violent.

Messy but brilliant against my otherwise dull world.”

Violet has been working at her current company for six years.  She feels unappreciated and she’s constantly being leered at by her male co-workers and even clients.  It’s not that her boss doesn’t care that this is going on, it’s that he has never noticed.  She has finally had enough and has decided to take a job offer at a competing firm. 

And, when Violet goes to give Gray her resignation, he finally sees her.  Now he’s obsessed.  He will not stop until he knows everything about her and can finally make her his, permanently.   Gray quickly discovers that Violet is hiding from someone, always looking over her shoulder.  Her abusive ex.  He must eliminate the threat so Vaughn can never harm his girl again.

Can Gray convince Violet to take a chance on him, despite his overbearing obsession with her?  Or will he feel like just another toxic relationship?

“I exit her apartment. With practiced efficiency, I engage all of the locks in seconds.

I want my girl to be safe.

There are all kinds of freaks in this world who would die to be inside this apartment with her.

Lucky for her, she has me to protect her.

There’s only room for one freak in her world.

And I take up a lot of space.”

I have fallen in love with dark romances.  However, this one was quite terrible.  It felt like amateur hour.  The characters were not likeable, in the least.  You have an over-the-top obsessive stalker and a complete push-over for his love interest.  The unbelievability of this book is by far the worst for me.  How am I supposed to believe that this girl has been Gray’s personal assistant for SIX FREAKING YEARS, coming into his office multiple times a day and he doesn’t even know who she is!?! That he doesn’t ‘see’ her?

Then there is this whole scene where he cleans house at the company firing all the guys that have been sexually harassing her.  Which would be fine, if he hadn’t just been going down on her in his office right before …

Also, it wasn’t bad enough poor Violet attracted one obsessive psycho, but her abusive ex too.  And, she’s a pushover with both men.  She hears Gray hiding under her bed and rightfully freaks out thinking her ex found her.  He uses sex to convince her that it’s fine and he would never hurt her like Vaughn would.

There also was a whole hoarder situation with Gray’s mom and sister that seemed odd an unnecessary.  And that weird creepy epilogue where we see what is in Gray’s chest of secrets that makes the hoarding not look so bad.

I hate writing such negative reviews, but I feel stupider after reading this book and I’m down-right pissed I spent money on it.