The Binding

TW: violent death of a dog, murder, suicide, rape

Difficult book to rate. Interesting premise but not really explained or explored thoroughly. Features an M/M love story of two very flawed characters who hurt a lot of people (especially women). Well-written dark gothic with an intriguing twist but ends abruptly with several major questions unanswered. Hard to get into at first, but then hard to put down.

I guess it averages out to a 3 star rating, but not in the same way that you'd give a book that you consider to be “just okay.” At different times in the novel I could have gone with 1 star or 5 stars. Not sure if I would read another book by this author unless I was in the mood for something truly dark.

And I don't think I'll ever look at books quite the same way again.