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Antidote (2000)

by Jack L. Pyke(Favorite Author)

4.42 of 5 Votes: 4

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Romance

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Don't...

review 1: Wow...where to start. First, please know that if you are interested in reading this book and have any triggers with rape, abduction, torture, you may not want to venture here. This is a VERY dark, VERY tough read through a good bit of it. Even after the worst of the scenes are over and you think you can breathe again, there are flashbacks. Having said all that, this book is one that you keep turning the pages because you have to know how Jack, Jan, and Gray try to work through things. You feel for them and all the pain they go through. They all have so much trauma, some shared, some uniquely their own. There are a couple of wicked twists, one that is hinted at earlier in the book but once you see it come into play, it tends to make your heart break even more. Well, bo... moreth twists do to be honest. The story takes a lot to wrap your brain around at times there is so much to it. Gray...he still remains my favorite. I simply love him. The ending was surprisingly sweet, even with knowing they still have a lot to deal with. Its one of those books that tends to stay with you for some time after you're done. I'm glad there is another book coming out in the series. I want to see where these three go next.
review 2: Having been blown away by Don't, I’d looked forward to reading this sequel for many months, even setting aside specific down time to savor it. Unfortunately, my disappointment turned out to be directly proportionate to my anticipation and much as I wanted to like it, too many things got in my way. So many things that I don’t know where to start.Let’s go with the most obvious, the bad grammar: Things like, “Me and Jan pulled through” and “Me and Jack, we’d gotten to know each other” proliferate the text with nary a single “Jan and I” as subject matter, in sight. (Mind you these are, supposedly, educated people speaking.) Even if the author didn't always employ good English, how did this get by the publisher/editor?Given my particular kinks, what was most lacking for me in this book that was in such abundance in the first one, was the erotic dynamic of two (Gray and sometimes Jan) on one (Jack). In this book, Jan is positioned as a victim too, diffusing the element of Jack being the singular sub and eliminating any humiliation he might have felt when Jan was an accomplice of Gray’s or participating as his Top. Further, the wonderful character of Gray is absent in this book for such a great stretch of time that I missed the threat of the discipline and strong hand he had with Jack, the source of so much eroticism in book one. Worst of all, a preposterous back-story of Jack appears from nowhere, complete with a history of sleazy companions, evil and conniving parents and from nowhere, a split personality. It's been awhile since I read Don't but to my recollection none of these were even vaguely alluded to in book one. They were pulled out of a hat right along with the kitchen sink. (Really, an exact replica of Jack’s apartment built in an abandoned warehouse, so detailed that the inhabitants can’t even discern living in it from living in the real thing, drugged or otherwise?)This last is minor but a pet peeve of mine. Whenever an author makes a switch over to writing from the POV of a character who is drunk, stoned or drugged, I'm thrown completely out of the story. Suddenly, instead of being caught up in the events of the tale, I'm a character in the tale. I don’t care to see Jack’s mother through his hallucination and made to wonder whether or not she’s really there. This reader wants to know what’s going on, that’s why I’m reading the book. I’m a spectator, an audience, not a drugged character in the story. In short, even though the character’s names and most locations remain, this could easily have been a new book instead of a sequel to Don’t. Then, perhaps, I wouldn’t have rushed to it with as much anticipation, and this would have been a different and much kinder review. less

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