![]() ![]() King, "Lord of London's underworld," always enigmatic and aloof. I received a copy of this book from the publisher for review. But otherwise, Bowen could have generated King’s backstory without the sexual abuse. I did appreciate that King says “I believe you” over and over to the boy, because no one ever believed him and he knows that’s important. Oh, and of course King is actually supposed to be a Baron but his parents faked his death for “lying” about the uncle abusing King’s brother for years. ![]() Again, the length of a novella does not provide adequate space for handling this kind of content. Everyone deals with trauma differently, so I’m not going to say that it’s impossible for them to have wanted to have sex, but it IS impossible for me to want to read sex after reading about child sexual abuse. Not only is there a scene in which a boy is chained to a wall and attacked by the villain, then stabbed (he bleeds out), but we go right from that scene into the only sex scene in the book. I am beyond tired of pedophilia being the “big shocking reveal” at 80%. I’ve never been so disappointed in a book by Kelly Bowen.Ī novella is tricky to pull off and not only did King deserve a full novel, there’s a child sexual abuse plot that isn’t handled with care. ![]()
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