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Cult of Personality
by Cole McCade
ARC provided via Booksprout for an honest review.
"You actually like me," he ventured, and Malcolm smiled, eyes crinkling at the corners.
"Yeah. Yeah, I do."
"Why?"
"If I tried to list the reasons, you'd punch me before I got to three."
This series gets better and better with every book.
I thought my heart would explode with Where There’s Fire, but Cult of Personality went so much harder – and by that, I mean cuter.
After Malcolm and Seong-Jae slept with each other at the end of the previous book, I thought this book would have them ignoring one another and pretending that the night they spent together didn’t happen.
I can’t tell you how excited I was to be wrong.
Not only do Malcolm and Seong-Jae talk about their complicated relationship, but Malcolm refers to Seong-Jae as his ‘boyfriend’. I think Cole McCade killed half of his readership with that scene.
Reading these two men getting closer to one another and opening up about things they’d never told anyone else before was so touching. Seong-Jae reveals something from his past to Malcolm, and that entire scene is portrayed with so much respect – although I would expect nothing less from McCade.
The case Seong-Jae and Malcolm work on was just as disturbing as promised. There’s just something so unsettling about cults and cult-mentality to me, but mix that in with toxic masculinity, and you’ve got something truly horrifying. McCade is probably one of the only authors I trust to write such disgusting criminals because you 100% know they’re going to get their comeuppance. These criminals are never glorified, and McCade makes it very obvious that he’s aware of the surrounding social and cultural issues in reality, through Malcolm and Seong-Jae.
Cult of Personality was an incredible book to an already stellar series. I am dying for the next book. Is it Feb 10 yet?
"You actually like me," he ventured, and Malcolm smiled, eyes crinkling at the corners.
"Yeah. Yeah, I do."
"Why?"
"If I tried to list the reasons, you'd punch me before I got to three."
This series gets better and better with every book.
I thought my heart would explode with Where There’s Fire, but Cult of Personality went so much harder – and by that, I mean cuter.
Spoiler
After Malcolm and Seong-Jae slept with each other at the end of the previous book, I thought this book would have them ignoring one another and pretending that the night they spent together didn’t happen.
I can’t tell you how excited I was to be wrong.
Not only do Malcolm and Seong-Jae talk about their complicated relationship, but Malcolm refers to Seong-Jae as his ‘boyfriend’. I think Cole McCade killed half of his readership with that scene.
Reading these two men getting closer to one another and opening up about things they’d never told anyone else before was so touching. Seong-Jae reveals something from his past to Malcolm, and that entire scene is portrayed with so much respect – although I would expect nothing less from McCade.
The case Seong-Jae and Malcolm work on was just as disturbing as promised. There’s just something so unsettling about cults and cult-mentality to me, but mix that in with toxic masculinity, and you’ve got something truly horrifying. McCade is probably one of the only authors I trust to write such disgusting criminals because you 100% know they’re going to get their comeuppance. These criminals are never glorified, and McCade makes it very obvious that he’s aware of the surrounding social and cultural issues in reality, through Malcolm and Seong-Jae.
Cult of Personality was an incredible book to an already stellar series. I am dying for the next book. Is it Feb 10 yet?