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heart. It is about revenge and hatred, misery and violence. I wasn’t always
this way even though it was in my blood. I grew up happy and in love with my
best friend until she betrayed me and walked away. After that, I fell into the
deep, dark world I was meant for.Presleigh Clarke’s actions turned me into the ruthless man I am today. Too bad
for her, I believe people should pay for the things they have done. The more
painful and messy, the better. I get off on making people bleed. It feeds my
inner demon, and right now, he is starving. She crossed me once, so now she’ll
know what it’s like to fear me. But not all stories end the way you think they
will … mine certainly didn’t.
~ Maria’s Review ~
Slaughter by Shantel Tessier is a twisted, messed up story filled with secrets, betrayal, heartbreak and violence. There is also love and redemption. I was excited to read this because I really loved the book I Dare You, which is also a dark romance by Shantel Tessier.
I am a fan of dark romance and I love suspense. Slaughter was definitely dark. I’m glad author Shantel Tessier wrote it in alternating POV because if I did not have Avery’s, the antihero, perspective, I’m not sure I would have liked him. I do like my male main character to be alpha, cocky, arrogant, even a jerk but not mean and abusive. He comes across this way and I had to focus on his POV to know where he was coming from. Ultimately, he does redeem himself, but it takes him a while to get there. As for our heroine, Presleigh, she was a little too meek but she had bursts of fire that made me like her and, when her story is revealed, my heart breaks for her. She is a survivor.
I know that in most dark romance books there are some hard to take scenes, but, usually, they are tempered with some tenderness, pleasure and pain. There was a lot of disturbing situations in this story. It made it difficult to feel the connection between Avery and Presleigh. There was something missing for me.
Overall, I liked it. I did like Avery and Presleigh. I like that she finally finds herself through this harrowing experience and kind of starts to feel comfortable in her own skin. Avery has his own demons to battle. But, he too, finds redemption and works on being worthy of forgiveness. They had so much to overcome to learn to trust again. While Slaughter is a stand alone, I look forward to reading Avery’s brother, Tristan’s story. His character intrigued me.
Oklahoma with her high school sweetheart, who is a wonderful, supportive
husband and their two daughters. She loves to spend time cuddled up on the
couch with a good book.
She considers herself extremely lucky to do what she does
while getting to work from home. Going to concerts and the movies are just a
few of her favorite things to do. She hates coffee but loves wine. She and her
husband are both huge football fans, college and NFL. And she has to feed her
high heel addiction by shopping for shoes weekly.
Although she has a passion to write, her family is most
important to her. She loves spending evenings at home with her husband and
daughters, along with their cat and dog.
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