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christinemomo 's review for:
Wrong Way Home
by K.A. Merikan
January 2023. MM “dark criminal romance” from a Kindle Unlimited collection of the same genre called “Criminal Delights,” each with a different author.
I wasn’t into this, not for me. The main character takes a different route to go home from college, accidentally witnessed a murder in the woods, and is kidnapped by the killer. The killer is a doomsday prepper who keeps him alive in a cage in his basement.
I’ve liked several crime or war novels that have an element of being kidnapped, interrogated, undercover, or other types of power imbalance but those have had the two characters having a level of similar ability and having made some type of choice to get into the situation (e.g., undercover) or a reason they are set against one another (e.g., enemy sides of a mob conflict or military operation).
This lacked the feeling of somewhat equally matched opponents; a thin undergrad is kidnapped by someone twice his size, who is about a decade older and is significantly stronger, and kept locked up with no end in sight. He has no survival or combat skills and it seems like it will be a lifetime of captivity in which he is fed and not in any particular danger. The kidnapper doesn’t seem lonely and just finds it mildly annoying that he has to use some of his home-grown food to feed a guy he put in a cage. Had some explicit scenes.
I wish it had gone darker (e.g., kidnapper is insane) to give more urgency and danger to the story, or something. Like a horror story with our main character being the ”final girl” type character etc. It didn’t work for me.
I am hoping to discover other authors I might like if other books in the series are actually more about criminal and action stuff.
“Wrong Way Home” by K.A. Merikan, part of the “Criminal Delights” gay dark romance collection on Kindle Unlimited.
I wasn’t into this, not for me. The main character takes a different route to go home from college, accidentally witnessed a murder in the woods, and is kidnapped by the killer. The killer is a doomsday prepper who keeps him alive in a cage in his basement.
I’ve liked several crime or war novels that have an element of being kidnapped, interrogated, undercover, or other types of power imbalance but those have had the two characters having a level of similar ability and having made some type of choice to get into the situation (e.g., undercover) or a reason they are set against one another (e.g., enemy sides of a mob conflict or military operation).
This lacked the feeling of somewhat equally matched opponents; a thin undergrad is kidnapped by someone twice his size, who is about a decade older and is significantly stronger, and kept locked up with no end in sight. He has no survival or combat skills and it seems like it will be a lifetime of captivity in which he is fed and not in any particular danger. The kidnapper doesn’t seem lonely and just finds it mildly annoying that he has to use some of his home-grown food to feed a guy he put in a cage. Had some explicit scenes.
I wish it had gone darker (e.g., kidnapper is insane) to give more urgency and danger to the story, or something. Like a horror story with our main character being the ”final girl” type character etc. It didn’t work for me.
I am hoping to discover other authors I might like if other books in the series are actually more about criminal and action stuff.
“Wrong Way Home” by K.A. Merikan, part of the “Criminal Delights” gay dark romance collection on Kindle Unlimited.