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I am a total Chelsea Cain fan girl and cannot wait for the next installment in the Archie and Gretchen saga. These two have one of the sickest relationships I have ever read. Archie, a police detective was tortured by Gretchen, a serial killer for ten days. After two books, you find out truly sick these two are because they long for each other. Gretchen likes to make Archie suffer and Archie needs her like the air he breathes. Sounds disturbing, right?
Who needs Hannibal and Clarice when you have these two?
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Evil at Heart is book three from Chelsea Cain and will be released from Minatour books on September 1st
Synopsis:
Gretchen Lowell is still on the loose. These days, she’s more of a cause célèbre than a feared killer, thanks to sensationalist news coverage that has made her a star. Her face graces magazine covers weekly and there have been sightings of her around the world. Most shocking of all, Portland Herald reporter Susan Ward has uncovered a bizarre kind of fan club, which celebrates the number of days she’s been free.
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Archie Sheridan hunted her for a decade, and after his last ploy to catch her went spectacularly wrong, remains hospitalized months later. When they last spoke, they entered a détente of sorts---Archie agreed not to kill himself if she agreed not to kill anyone else. But when a new body is found accompanied by Gretchen’s trademark heart, all bets are off and Archie is forced back into action. Has the Beauty Killer returned to her gruesome ways, or has the cult surrounding her created a whole new evil?
Speaking of disturbing love stories, what was the most disturbing or shocking romance you have ever read that makes you go WTF, but you couldn't get enough of?
8 comments:
OMG, I totally want this book! I love intense, weird, dysfunctional relationships like that. LOL
Will I be banned for life KB if I admit to not having read Chelsea Cain?
This series sounds *trying to find the right words* disturbingly compelling...
Oh, and I recently read a book that I can't stop thinking about, which was (I thought) way out of my comfort zone: Bent (Sean Michael). It's m/m romance and BDSM. And the book totally worked for me. Actually, it was kind of scary how much I related to one of the characters...
Leah: I don't know how Chelsea has done it but she has me hooked on Archie and Gretchen's relationship especially after Archie became such an asshole in the second book after we find out what really went on before he was tortured.
Orannia: Even though these books are suspense and has murder, the violence isn't too hard core. The reason you are outside your comfort zone because of the sick relationship the two characters have.
You're just hooking me in, word by word KB :) There's a word for that, OK two words: Supreme Pimage :)
*adds Heartsick to TBR list*
Orannia~I have never read Chelsea Cain, either, but it sounds like a fun series. In a really sick way.
The most shocking love story I read recently was in manga (of course), Vampire Knight. Its starts out as your normal, high school, human girl-sexy vampire-normal human boy love triangle; BUT THEN, it turns out later in the series after you totally want the vampire and human girl to get together that the vampire is actually... HER BROTHER!!! And they still have sex. I was gobsmacked.
Wow, this looks like a different but really interesting story! I think I'll be looking for the first book now... thanks! :)
I love this series. I think authors rarely lay it all out there like Cain does. She lets you see the good, the bad and the ugly of all of her characters. Aside from Archie and Gretchen, Susan has problems of her own that lots of readers find distasteful, but readers of this series embrace all these things and ask for more.
I wish more series, no matter the genre took chances like this.
Sounds like a twisted version of Stockholm Syndrome.
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