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Title: Darkness Bound by Larry Brooks ISBN: 0-451-40945-0 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: 10 October, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.06 (47 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Be Careful: You just might get it!
Comment: Larry Brooks' DARKNESS BOUND could just have easily been called DARK PASSAGE. It is a wonderfully engrossing book. The story takes place in Seattle. The protagonist Dillon Masters has it all: he is movie star handsome, has a beautiful wife, a glamorous job and is the envy of friends and coworkers alike. But all is not right in Dillon's world. Dillon's beautiful wife wants Dillon out of the house so that she can find herself. Exit a sulking Dillon who takes up what he hopes to be a temporary residence at a Residence Inn. Poor Dillon! The last thing Dillon wants to deal with is his crumbling marriage. A day or two later after a rather defining encounter with his wife Karen, Dillon is taking a walk through Nordstrom's, thinking about his marriage when someone catches his eye. ' The woman was so beautiful that it hurt to look at her. She was the Dark Lady, and she was perfect'. A fix to take away the pain of the breakup? ' This was a woman...out of his league. A woman with the promise of a very palpable and unmanageable danger...An evil woman, in a way that men have found irresistible...who acted and dressed the part...to lure the attention of her prey. The realization gave him an incredible amount of satisfaction, the private pleasure that he'd never been able to satisfactorily explain and that no woman in his life had ever understood'. Thus starts Dillon's dark passage into the nether world of sexual fantasy and deviation, murder and betrayal. You read that description of the Dark Lady and you want to say to Dillon: ' be careful of what you ask for because you just might get it'. And while he gets the Dark Lady, the unattainable woman of his darkest dreams, a woman who shares his sexual predilections, he almost doesn't get it. So much of how we see the world is in our heads. As I heard a troubled woman say once: 'My mind is like a gang infested neighborhood. I dare not go there by myself'. When Dillon finally realizes this truth he gives himself a chance agaist the minions of the Dark Lady. Dillon's roller coaster ride has enough twists and turns to keep the most casual reader of mystery fare on the edge of her seat; and, enough tension and drama to keep even the most experienced mystery buff riveted. And just when you think that Dillon is becoming a cliché, the author puts his novel into another gear; and off we go again.
DARKNESS BOUND was well edited and researched and reflects the author's eclectic background. The character development of the main actors was good to excellent. The dialogue was crisp, delightful and intelligent...except at the end when folks started talking too much while holding other folks at bay with loaded pistols in their hands. I have never believed in the TV version of soliloquy when you have the drop on someone. Still it is a vehicle that authors since Shakespeare have used to tie up lose ends; and, it almost works here. Larry Brooks is an excellent writer. I am anxious to read his next outing.
Rating: 4
Summary: A lot of great twists
Comment: When it comes to books, at times, morals can be learned. Darkness Bound is no exception. The Moral is simple: Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
Dillion Masters is going through a sepreation with his wife, and a chance encounter will change his life. In a dept. store, he meets the woman of his fantasies....then the nightmare begins. Dillion soon learns that punishment and reward goes hand in hand. Soon Dillon's life is turned up sidedown....all for the sake for "the woman of his dreams".
This is an erotic story that has a lot (and I mean a lot) of twists that keep the plot moving as a rapid pace. Brooks has a writing style that will keep the reader glued to each page. This is one of the first books that I actually lost sleep over. I just *had* to read one more chapter. Then at the end of a chapter, there was a plot twist that had me and refused to let go. You may want to get sleeping pills with this book, so you'll be forced to sleep.
You won't miss this book if yer looking for it. It's has an arrtactive woman bound by the writst in a erotic way. The book caught my eye, the I was talking about it with a friend, and she said that I *had* to buy it, I wouln't be sorry. How right she was.
One char I really liked was Detective Rubin. What a wonderful character. He adds a lot to a book that has a lot.
Okay, I said enought. Go out and get Darkness Bound. Just remember, always be careful what you wish for b/c you might just get it....
Rating: 3
Summary: So so.
Comment: Not one of my favorites. Not too erotic, not too thrilling. The first half of the book is much better than the the rest of it as the plot grows confusing and lost in details and in police investigation's procedures.
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