Title: Preach.
Series: Church Duet #2
Series: Church Duet #2
Author: Stylo Fantôme
Genre: Dark Romance
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Rating: 4 Stars
Told in the first person. Alternating persons.
Rating: 4 Stars
Told in the first person. Alternating persons.
Blurb:
A shattered woman.
A changed man.
Church Logan wanted to kill someone, and Emma Hartley wanted to die - they were a match made in hell.
But one little cut, a pint or two of blood, and suddenly everything between them is different.
Are they still destined for greatness? Or has the darkness finally eclipsed them and torn them apart?
Looks like it's time for Church to practice what he preaches.
Ignition, meet explosion.
**Warning: if you have triggers - this story will touch on a lot of them. This book is a dark romance, 65,000+ words.
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My Thoughts:
Emma Hartley has me
worried. Paul “Church” Logan is more of
a secondary character in the beginning of this second book. He’s more of a thought, a memory. Emma has more of a staring role. It’s been a few months since I was first
introduced to Church and as I’m
reintroduced to our characters it seems that you have no choice but to read
these books in order.
I give the author
continued kudos for switching from first person to third person. For the reader, it’s like we’re ghosting Emma
as she tries to navigate her new normal.
I’m still trying to decide if Church is crazy or not. Is his brain different from ours? Or maybe he’s a product of his
upbringing? If you watch The Dr. Oz show
at all you know he has his True Crime
segments. I have to wonder how he would
see Church or even Emma. I would call
them a modern day Bonnie and Clyde because I could see them getting the same
amount of notoriety should the media get involved.
Can’t figure out who is
more terrifying – the parents or the children.
It also makes me wonder if the so-called “professionals” try to see if
there is any type of correlation there.
Maybe that’s what the author wanted me to figure out. I found it interesting to see that Emma and
Church seemed to have a logical explanation for their madness.
In this book Emma seemed
like someone that doesn’t care but our author shows us a glimmer of
humanity. She believes in sticking up
for those whose voice has been squashed.
Right at that moment I decided that no matter how hard this book was to
read, I had no choice but to finish.
It’s something that had my heart pounding from beginning to end. Even though I saw those two dreaded words, I
didn’t feel that their story was over.
So much seemed to be left unsaid.
I’m glad that I got the chance to get to know this author’s writing
style.
The only issue I had was
if this story ever got made into a movie.
I think people would enjoy it but it would just make it too real for
me. With a book you can disconnect from what’s
happening but not so much when you’re given graphic visuals. Same with nightmares – a movie gives me something
that I have to see with my eyes. It makes
it harder to forget. With reading, there
are outside forces that may override what my mind sees. Makes me wonder if this author’s duet was
born from nightmares.
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Author Bio:
Crazy woman from a remote location in Alaska (where the need for a creative mind is a necessity!), I have been writing since ... forever? Yeah, that sounds about right. I have been told that I remind people of Lucille Ball - I also see shades of Jennifer Saunders, and Denis Leary. So basically, I laugh a lot, I'm clumsy a lot, and I say the F-word A LOT.
I like dogs more than I like most people, and I don't trust anyone who doesn't drink. No, I do not live in an igloo, and no, the sun does not set for six months out of the year, there's your Alaska lesson for the day. I have mermaid hair - both a curse and a blessing - and most of the time I talk so fast, even I can't understand me.
Yeah. I think that about sums me up.
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