cverdeja 's review for:

Lessons in Corruption by Giana Darling
4.0

Alright…I’m conflicted. Giana Darling’s got me all twisted up on this one.

A few notes worth mentioning: firstly, this is my first Gianna Darling novel so I had literally no clue what I was walking into and secondly, I previously had no idea what an “MC” book was and couldn’t find reference to it online so decided to just read it an find out…boy, did I.

For those of you wondering… “MC” stands for Motorcycle Club… *cue all known references to Sons of Anarchy, cut and paste.

Mostly, I can summarize my review into a few culminating thoughts:

As a high school English teacher myself I just have to first say that I spent the beginning of his novel going “Ew… ew, ew, ew” because, well, ew.

Now, despite my best efforts to really not be down with this concept, I did my best to give it a chance and… again refer to the begging of this review where I said Darlings’s got me all twisted in my feels.

I was eventually able to put the age thing aside because this is fiction but also because the author makes a real effort to outline King as a very outside-the-norm, grown-beyond-his-years, type of kid (but don’t call him a kid to his face, he’s a man