Summary:
Erika
I was told that dreams were our heart’s desires. My nightmares, however, became my obsession.
His name is Michael Crist.
My boyfriend’s older brother is like that scary movie that you peek through your hand to watch. He is handsome, strong, and completely terrifying. The star of his college’s basketball team and now gone pro, he’s more concerned with the dirt on his shoe than me.
But I noticed him.
I saw him. I heard him. The things that he did, and the deeds that he hid…For years, I bit my nails, unable to look away.
Now, I’ve graduated high school and moved on to college, but I haven’t stopped watching Michael. He’s bad, and the dirt I’ve seen isn’t content to stay in my head anymore.
Because he’s finally noticed me.
Michael
Her name is Erika Fane, but everyone calls her Rika.
My brother’s girlfriend grew up hanging around my house and is always at our dinner table. She looks down when I enter a room and stills when I am close. I can always feel the fear rolling off of her, and while I haven’t had her body, I know that I have her mind. That’s all I really want anyway.
Until my brother leaves for the military, and I find Rika alone at college.
In my city.
Unprotected.
The opportunity is too good to be true as well as the timing. Because you see, three years ago she put a few of my high school friends in prison, and now they’re out.
We’ve waited. We’ve been patient. And now every last one of her nightmares will come true.
She has done it again! Penelope Douglas, you genius!!! I can't say enough good things about this book!!
This book had everything! It was so tantalizingly dark but also romantic and thriller-like (which had me questioning my sanity for even thinking of romance). I couldn't stop reading because I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. It started out with a bang and it ended with one as well. The characters in the book were all so twisted and the more I read the more I uncovered about why they were that way. I wanted to jump inside their heads and uncover their secrets. I won't go into who but certain characters are so deliciously despicable that as a reader you can't help but love the part that they play in the book as well.
I thought that Erika and Michael were made for each other. They each had flaws, Michael more so than Erika in my opinion, but together they seemed whole. She made him question himself and the actions that he was taking. He made her fight for the things that she wanted in order to make her stronger.
Everything in the book served a purpose toward building to the climax. The flashbacks to the past only added to the intrigue and made the story more interesting and tense. I honestly had no idea what was going to happen in the book while I was reading it. I can usually guess fairly easily what will happen in any given book but this one kept me on my toes.
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