Preach. by Stylo FantomeMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
6 Royally F**KED UP Stars!!
I'm so sad its over, I want more!!
"If you weren't broken anymore, then I wouldn't be able to love you the way I do."
I know everyone says this, but PLEASE LISTEN!! This is NOT a story that you want to read spoilers on! I promise, It ends good and the ride is totally worth it! If you read spoilers, it really will kill it for you! JUST SAY NO!
This duet was simply the most unique and craziest story I have read in a long time. I was on the edge on my set the entire time saying to myself, "What the HELL is going on!!"
And I freaking LOVED IT!! I am not sure I can say that enough lol
"I have more faith in you than you do, yourself. How could I not? You're the other half of my soul."
I love stories with questionable "anti-heros" and dark material and obsessive dark romance. This story just took all that to an entirely new level.
"Commissioned for me, made for me. You've always been mine, even before we met."
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!!!!!!!SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!!!!
In this second part of our Church and Emma journey we delved a bit more into Churches thoughts with his POV being presented more than in "Church." We start where book 1 left off with Emma Being at the recovery facility, Sunshine Ranch Institution after her incident (view spoiler) and we hear from Church's POV, but have no idea where he is. Emma is angry at Church for basically abandoning her because she has not heard from him in 6 weeks. She is now under her mother's "guardianship" and doing her best to fake "Normal" so she can get out from under Margo's thumb.
It is so interesting, in this story, it seems like everyone Emma comes across in her life are just Cluster F**ks of people. You're not sure if it is because of her station in life or the type of person she is that she seems to attract the human garbage heaps all around her, but she does wonder that herself a few times during book. The therapists, who you would think would be the only good people in the story are two of the crappiest given their actions. (view spoiler)
The story progresses and we see the lovers reunited, we learn more about Jerry (who was quickly becoming one of the most interesting characters), some new characters are introduced, and all around mayhem ensues.
This is why this was such a home run for me...
These characters are not good people, don't claim to be either. In fact they are quite honestly two of the most unquestionably morally bankrupt MC's I have ever read about. They did not get "better", or become better citizens, or have any great epiphanies on how they have overcome some personal trauma/obstacle and now they look at the world in a new light... In fact, I more thought the journey of the story was Emma letting go of her strangle hold on "normalcy" and learning to embrace her "Dark" side; to accept who she was really meant to be, a "monster". Much of the book is her personal journey of acceptance of that fact. Weather she was "made" that way by her mother's parenting skills (or lack there of) or simply born that way didn't matter. Just that she was and that's that.
As the reader you were somehow ok with how absolutely f**ked up these two MC's were because all the other characters were worse (view spoiler).
But, I FREAKING LOVED IT You are so happy in the end because they got away with everything and ride off into the sunset! Sign of a great author! To make you not only understand why the character does what they do, and cause the reader to commiserate with them, but to also be 100% on board when they are doing horrible awful things. Simply outstanding...
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