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Wanna Play a Game?
by Alina May
*** THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS***
Ryder, Sawyer and Miles are a throuple. They’re also hunters … of humans. Think Hard Target movie 1993, kinda.
Cali is a hairdresser and a recovering alcoholic, who lives with her cat and her abusive boyfriend, Ben.
Ben comes home one night, beats her and chokes her out and she flees. She ends up at an all-hours gas station to buy booze and accidentally runs into Sawyer, literally.
While sitting in her car drinking, She decides to phone 911 on Ben, but changes her mind while on the phone with the operator. Sawyer watched her during all this and spots her on the phone as they leave the parking lot.
When they get to their Motel, Ryder gets arrested and it turns out someone at the gas station reported them. (Ryder is already wanted in connection to one of their previous hunts)…
Sawyer immediately thinks of the girl on the phone and decides she has to pay for messing with his family, so he makes her his next mark for a hunt.
Some creepiness ensues and Sawyer ends up kidnapping Cali without telling Miles and while Ryder is in jail.
“do you wanna play a game” becomes a line Cali dreads… but here’s the thing…Cali is a fighter, and she doesn’t want to lose. And sure enough, eventually that question starts feeling like less of a threat to Cali. But that’s wrong… right?
Again, Alina May writes a taboo book with a shopping list of triggers, dark men, questionable and downright deplorable and criminal behaviors, … and it’s somehow no less beautiful of a love story. It’s never sleazy. It never actually feels “wrong”, I’m not sure how else to say that.
The emotional turmoil that all of these characters go through endears them to the reader more, and that scene with Ryder and Cali in the street…Miss Alina, I was on the verge of tears, ready to jump into those pages and throttle someone. And yes, there were some moments when I went, “you wanna do what now ?!” like I didn’t read exactly what I just read.
The suspense, the lust, the danger, and the achingly, beautiful relationship that unfolds beneath, and during all this chaos, is worthy of ALL the stars and then some!
I highly recommend this book. Five stars, 10/10, I personally am rating it R,
Ryder, Sawyer and Miles are a throuple. They’re also hunters … of humans. Think Hard Target movie 1993, kinda.
Cali is a hairdresser and a recovering alcoholic, who lives with her cat and her abusive boyfriend, Ben.
Ben comes home one night, beats her and chokes her out and she flees. She ends up at an all-hours gas station to buy booze and accidentally runs into Sawyer, literally.
While sitting in her car drinking, She decides to phone 911 on Ben, but changes her mind while on the phone with the operator. Sawyer watched her during all this and spots her on the phone as they leave the parking lot.
When they get to their Motel, Ryder gets arrested and it turns out someone at the gas station reported them. (Ryder is already wanted in connection to one of their previous hunts)…
Sawyer immediately thinks of the girl on the phone and decides she has to pay for messing with his family, so he makes her his next mark for a hunt.
Some creepiness ensues and Sawyer ends up kidnapping Cali without telling Miles and while Ryder is in jail.
“do you wanna play a game” becomes a line Cali dreads… but here’s the thing…Cali is a fighter, and she doesn’t want to lose. And sure enough, eventually that question starts feeling like less of a threat to Cali. But that’s wrong… right?
Again, Alina May writes a taboo book with a shopping list of triggers, dark men, questionable and downright deplorable and criminal behaviors, … and it’s somehow no less beautiful of a love story. It’s never sleazy. It never actually feels “wrong”, I’m not sure how else to say that.
The emotional turmoil that all of these characters go through endears them to the reader more, and that scene with Ryder and Cali in the street…Miss Alina, I was on the verge of tears, ready to jump into those pages and throttle someone. And yes, there were some moments when I went, “you wanna do what now ?!” like I didn’t read exactly what I just read.
The suspense, the lust, the danger, and the achingly, beautiful relationship that unfolds beneath, and during all this chaos, is worthy of ALL the stars and then some!
I highly recommend this book. Five stars, 10/10, I personally am rating it R,