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| Definitely Really Liked It!!! |
First: Every time I hear Placebo’s Running Up That Hill, I think of this book. I
Basic Summary: Emily Sheppard grew up very privileged, but
threw it all away after her outcast of a brother is found dead from a drug
overdose. Emily now leads a very plain
and boring life, going to college, working in a library, and taking a jog
through the rougher parts of town. That
is until one day where she witnesses a murder, while jogging through a cemetery. Emily is then kidnapped, by a very hot and
young drug lord, Cameron. She immediately
gets swept up into their dark and seedy world, being held captive in his house
in Vermont. Of course eventually she
falls in love the mysterious and dark Cameron.
This book takes you on a journey of Emily’s struggle to become closer to
Cameron, and Cameron’s struggle to balance his growing love for Emily and job
as head honcho of the drug world.
Secrets about Emily’s brother Bill are revealed along the way, which
just sucks Emily in more, making her very curious and eager to learn everything
is to know about this underground world.
What I love About This Book: If you have read and loved The Dark Duet
series you will probably love this book as well. There isn’t an erotic element to this book like
with Captive & Seduced in the Dark but the darkness, the moral struggles,
and the violence is all right there. I
love books that bring you on a roller coaster ride, and this book definitely
delivers. Since I read tons of romance
and erotica books, the ending in most of them is happily ever after, but in
this book you have no clue at all what is going to happen. It is the first book in a series so I feel
like eventually in the end there will be a happily ever after, but Julie
Hockley writes this book in such a way that, that kind of ending is not
guaranteed.
I love Emily Sheppard as a protagonist
because she really loathes herself but isn’t annoying about it. She has no faith in herself at all, and to me
as this is the case in most characters in a romance series she isn’t whiny
about it at all. To me Emily Sheppard’s
lack of self-confidence is just a fact in her life she accepts and moves
on. She isn’t constantly complaining
about her red hair and freckles but you get the sense that this is just her
life, and that’s that.
The details in the book are amazing,
the minute Emily walks into Cameron’s Vermont home you really grasp exactly
what this house looks like. Julie
Hockley really describes the environment around Emily and Cameron so amazingly
well. In the beginning of the book you
really get a sense of the squalor that Emily lives in as a struggling college
student. Especially if you have ever
gone to college, you completely understand how living in such a mess can be so
much fun all at the same time.
The way the characters are written too
is just so amazing. The author makes it very
easy to get attached to them, and not just Emily and Cameron but with Cameron’s
brother Rocco, and Carly, and Griff. You
really get invested in their lives and their drama as well. The darkness that is Cameron’s life and work
really drips into every corner of this book.
You feel the hopelessness that all these characters lives with, every
second of every day they cannot show weakness they constantly have to be
assessing their situation and that every action will have a negative
reaction. Cameron has made decisions for
him and his friends that has lead them down this path of no return, there is no
getting out of the drug dealing business, you’re in for life.
You also morn Bill’s death along with
the characters, as a reader you feel Emily’s tremendous loss in her life when
he dies. Julie Hockley really delivers
the loss of an amazing life and his potential as if you lost someone close to
you. Bill’s life wasn’t a very healthy
one, with lots of lies and secrets but the sense that he was such an important
person is everyone is very apparent throughout the book. You feel heartbroken for not just Emily, but
for Cameron losing his best friend and Carly losing the love of her life.
Throughout this whole book, you
have no idea how this book will end. I
love a book that keeps you guessing and Cameron & Emily’s relationship definitely
keeps the reader on their toes. When
reading it you just want Cameron to give it all up and run into Emily’s arms,
so when you finally get to the end you are in complete shock!! The ending is
crazy, and it just rips your heart out and stomps on it. The epilogue in a way rescue’s you from going
through the five stages of grief, because all the denial you had in the last chapter
goes away pretty quickly. At the end of
the last chapter you realize how much Emily has grown in such a short amount of
time, and cannot wait to see how this change will affect this series and shape
the next storyline.
I can’t freaking way for Scare Crow it
cannot come soon enough!!!!!!
Cons: I don’t have tons of negative things to say
about this book, but one thing I will say is this book is a good example why I
don
’t like reading a lot of new adult or young adult books. This is because even if there is a sensual
scene, which is very few and far between in this genre, they are just glossed
over. There is no real detail in the sex
scenes at all in this genre, and this book is no different. I get a lot of people don’t mind that and I
completely understand that but I am not one of those people.
Another con for me was the fact that
Emily asked too many damn questions!! I get she led a sheltered life, and was
very removed from her brother Bill’s business but sometimes during her constant
questioning I want to scream! Like after
question number 20, how does she still not get it???? Cameron answers most of
her questions the best he can, but damn put two and two together in your own
head. Maybe if she shut up and stopped
asking questions at a certain point and really thought about it maybe she was
get to the answer herself. I feel like
for a girl that was able to walk away from her family and live on her own, she
sometimes has no brain at all. I understand
the message that Julie Hockley is trying to send out about Emily but for me it
was just one too many questions, it could’ve been stopped at a certain
point.
Also this whole Cameron being the head
drug dealer amongst the families is a little too much for me to swallow. He’s twenty six, I get he’s good at what he
does but I can’t buy older more experienced drug dealers listening to him. There is no way in the real world that, that
kind of hierarchy would be working. You
want to make a 26 year old a genius at his job, that’s fine but for him to be
like the King, no way. That was just one
step too far.
Overall: This is the beginning of a great new
series. It’s like they took Twilight and
Captive in the Dark put it together and out came Crow’s Row. I cannot wait for the next book, it’s so
great for a female character to really come into her own self and at the end of
this book you feel Emily has more of purpose now. She isn’t some innocent little nothing
anymore, she is wants revenge and is willing to bide her time and wait for the
opportunity.
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