A Twisted Love Story - Review

Author: Samantha Downing

Genre: Horror

Format: Hardback

Hours: 390

This is my fourth Samantha Downing book, and she is one of my favorite authors. She still has two more books I need to read, and they are on my 'for later' shelf at the library. By now, I have learned that her books are never what you think they are going to be. There's always going to be this twist here or there that shakes the whole plot up. And, that it was like about her books, it works a bit like real life. With a whole lot of soap operas I was raised on, sprinkled in, and I love it so much.

Reading A Twisted Love Story was like being nosey about the couple that lives next door, who only have one volume, loud. Like you know, this whole thing is going to end in tears and cops, but you just hear for the ride as well. Because you know it's going to be wild and messy, and you cannot stop yourself from that nosey neighbor. Only this book takes that and throws you off a cliff, too. Because about halfway through, I realized something, and it threw a whole wrench in the plot.

I also really liked it because as I started to unravel one part of the plot, another thread would loosen that you'd sort of forgotten about. So then I'd start thinking about that piece. Then another piece was scratched off, so I toddled off over there. And at one point, you realize that all these little pieces actually fit together, and now you realize why all of a sudden that character, and that moment, are important. Because somehow Downing has started to tie it all together. But then you go back to another thing because it was all made up, or what a minute.

Over and over in a circle, I went for nearly four hundred pages. The book was hard to put down because what in the actual hell was going to happen next. How was Ivy going to make this worse? Because let's be serious, she was making everything worse because she didn't know how to not cause a scene. Though Wes wasn't helping because he couldn't just talk away and tell Ivy no. So, there was that. 

I spent the whole book knowing they were going to get caught because, of course, they are, but was it jail time. Was someone going to get shot? Were they going to get away? It also doesn't help that chapters are short, so you feel like you're flying through this book as you complete another chapter. Having more points of view was great as well because you're seeing everything from different angles. Which means you're getting information in different ways, but that doesn't always mean you know what you have right away. So you have those "holy crap" moments a lot.

I love Samantha Downing's book because they are low risk, high reward, and is just absolutely wild. I always know I'm going to enjoy them. Four books in and she hasn't disappointed with a read yet.

HAPPY READING!!