A review by damnfinesam
OMINOUS: Book I by K.V. Rose

5.0

I honestly have no words. I don’t know what to do with myself. This book was transcendent. I’ve never related to a character more than eden & I’ve never fallen so hard for a sociopath like Eli. These two were the ultimate obsession. It’s not stated in the book but Eden has bipolar disorder, I know this bc her reactions & manic phases were so similar to my own. I can’t tell you how much it means to me to have a character like this. At one point Eden says she feels like an alien in her own brain & I felt that so hard. So thank you KV for showing the darker side to this illness & yet still making her a loveable character. Then there’s Eli who completely surpassed my expectations of what I thought a sociopath is. He has feelings & they run DEEP. His obsessive, stalkerish lust/love for Eden is so powerful & you get sucked right the fuck in. These two understand one another. They’re fucked up yes, but it’s like their fucked up-ness attracts. I also love a story with unreliable narrators. I was questioning everything & maybe that’s why I can’t stop thinking about this book. I still have questions, who is right, who is telling the truth, what do they really want. Eden wants to please eli more than anything & Eli wants to own her. Mine, mine, mine. The imagery in this book was also spectacular. Being from southern ca I’ve always had a pool & I used to pretend to drown. I would hold my breath as long as possible & stay completely still while pretending I was dead bc it cut out all the noise & shut my brain off. I still do this so to read about characters who understand that nothingness? Fuck. In a way the drowning metaphor is like Eden & Eli’s relationship. It burns & you know you need to come up for air but it also feels so calm & quiet while you’re under even though you’re killing your self. Their love is toxic, damaging, but it feels so good.