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A review by heatheray
Mr. X by Clarissa Wild
5.0
I’ve been sitting here staring at the screen trying to figure out how to approach my review for awhile now. I think I am going to start out with saying this is not an easy book to read. If you read the warning in the blurb you get an idea of why.
I like dark books and this has got to be the darkest one I have read in awhile. I typically can fly through a darker book, outsider looking in, keeping my own emotions and things that I have gone through in my own life (nothing like what is in the book), what would typically be triggers for some people, separate from my thoughts while reading. I couldn’t do that with this one. It was hard.
Mr. X is an excellent book and definitely something I wouldn’t consider to be a romance, though there is love, a strange twisted love, but love none the less. I almost have to go into this as if I am reviewing a horror story, something that keeps me up at night and gives me nightmares, which minus the nightmares, I love horror stories.
I kept turning the pages to see why Mr. X was what he was, why he had the scar, why he was so fixated on Jay, what Jay’s memories of the past were, I wanted all the pieces to the puzzle.
I physically cringed, I winced, and during the strawberry scene, I thought I was going to get sick. Like I said, excellent book. Clarissa Wild definitely was able to work my emotions through her words, through these characters, through the entire story. During it all, I kept hoping someone in this book was going to get an HEA. I kind of realized my mind is a little twisted when I started having sympathy for Mr. X as more and more of his story came to light.
Clarissa pulls no punches and doesn’t mince words, she leaves nothing unsaid, and she will wring the emotions out of you whether you want to give them over or not.
Amazing, tough, gritty read. I’m really glad I got a chance to read it even if it made it hard for me to breathe at times.
Thank you so much for my copy of Mr. X.
I like dark books and this has got to be the darkest one I have read in awhile. I typically can fly through a darker book, outsider looking in, keeping my own emotions and things that I have gone through in my own life (nothing like what is in the book), what would typically be triggers for some people, separate from my thoughts while reading. I couldn’t do that with this one. It was hard.
Mr. X is an excellent book and definitely something I wouldn’t consider to be a romance, though there is love, a strange twisted love, but love none the less. I almost have to go into this as if I am reviewing a horror story, something that keeps me up at night and gives me nightmares, which minus the nightmares, I love horror stories.
I kept turning the pages to see why Mr. X was what he was, why he had the scar, why he was so fixated on Jay, what Jay’s memories of the past were, I wanted all the pieces to the puzzle.
I physically cringed, I winced, and during the strawberry scene, I thought I was going to get sick. Like I said, excellent book. Clarissa Wild definitely was able to work my emotions through her words, through these characters, through the entire story. During it all, I kept hoping someone in this book was going to get an HEA. I kind of realized my mind is a little twisted when I started having sympathy for Mr. X as more and more of his story came to light.
Clarissa pulls no punches and doesn’t mince words, she leaves nothing unsaid, and she will wring the emotions out of you whether you want to give them over or not.
Amazing, tough, gritty read. I’m really glad I got a chance to read it even if it made it hard for me to breathe at times.
Thank you so much for my copy of Mr. X.