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Synopsis

Equal parts Dexter and 50 Shades, this is the eagerly awaited new novel from A. R. Torre, author of the award winning erotic thriller, The Girl in 6E.

The rules are the same. I can’t open the door. I can’t leave. I can’t kill anyone.
The only difference is, I don’t set the rules anymore. Guards in grey uniforms do. It is everything I never wanted and everything I always deserved. I write to you now, from a prison cell. My home for the next twenty to thirty years.
That’s the going term for murder.

Review

Deanna Madden

Jess Reilly

Psychopath

Cybersex Queen

Killer

Evil

Insane

Broken

Quilty

This is the sum of all of Deanna Madden’s parts, and if you dare to look inside her mind and attempt to understand her fragmented psyche, you’ll be left with a menagerie of conclusions that don’t realistically define all that Deanna was, is, and might become due to her past, her own mind, and her afflictions.

I know every time I enter a A. R. Torre novel, I’m going to be thrust into a world that is manipulatively twisted and deliciously dark. Much of what readers see throughout the story is merely a facade…a small part of a much bigger puzzle and the jagged and disjointed pieces must be whittled down and understood at their core in order to solve the riddle that Torre lays out for her readers.

Deanna Madden is one of the most complex heroines I’ve ever read, and it’s due to how Torre constructs each part of Madden. Torre is meticulous in allowing readers inside Deanna’s tormented mind; I suspect it’s a bit like being in purgatory because Deanna’s stuck between the good that Jeremy brings into her life as well as her drive to be normal and free and her thirst for blood, death, and destruction. As soon as she makes gains in her life…in her control…in her resolve to toe the line, she finds herself regressing and yearning for a release that only she can find with her hands around someone’s neck or one of her knives slicing through tissue.

Torre marvelously depicts how conflicted Deanna is and the steps she’s willing to take to ensure that Jeremy gets everything out of life, even if it means playing a part that has become such a part of her that she can’t tell the difference between what’s real and what’s pretend. Readers will also witness Deanna divulge some truths that will send them spiraling and will only add to her complexity.

Deanna Madden is a walking contradiction, and If You Dare only solidifies that idea. She can be described as unfeeling just as much as overwhelmed with emotion. She’s evil but has times of goodness. Her madness can undo her as much as her clarity can ground her.

I guess that’s why she has two names…two realities…two existences. And, it’s exactly what makes this series every bit as erotic and psychotic as it’s described.

A complimentary copy was provided by the author/publisher in exchange for an honest review.

4.5 Poison Apples

Alessandra Torre is an award-winning New York Times bestselling author of ten novels. Her books focus on romance and suspense, all with a strong undercurrent of sexuality. Torre has been featured in such publications as Elle and Elle UK, co-hosted Dirty Sexy Funny with Jenny McCarthy, as well as guest blogged for the Huffington Post and RT Book Reviews. She is also the Bedroom Blogger for Cosmopolitan.com.