Havoc by Debra Anastasia

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Title: Havoc
Author: Debra Anastasia
Published by: Indie
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 313
Genres: Romance, Contemporary, Mystery
Find it: Goodreads ✩ Amazon
My rating:

Blurb:

I named myself. I took the word Animal out of their mouths, wore it like a badge of honor then shoved it down their throats. I’ve fought for what I have. I see you coming, before you even know you want a piece of me. In a city riddled with warring families, I’ll rise up between them. My people, the broken souls I gather will have power by the time I’m done with them.

I protect mine.

Him. My brother, Nix.

Her. The girl that is the only home I’ve ever had. She knows me.

I’m coming at you, Sweetness. Stay ready.

My Review:

Favorite Quotes:

He was devastating. Just being near him was like getting pulled into the sun. I knew it was probably bad for us both, but my heart was set up like a clearance sale. No returns, no refunds.

T was an obstetrician of death. She was incredibly capable at delivering it.

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I’m gonna start off by saying that while the story was average, the WAY it was told made it fricking amazing!  She writes so beautifully that I got sucked into the story. The only thing that irked me a bit was the abrupt time jumping and the lack of details from their pasts.  Everything was very mysterious and alluded to, something that I found to be both very smart but also kinda lazy.  Smart because it allowed the reader to fill in the blanks and I could make it as gruesome as I wanted.  Lazy because we don’t really know how they dealt with a lot of stuff and so I wasn’t able to connect on a deeper level because of it.

But other than that, and it’s really not that big of a deal because the writing was so good that I overlooked it, I loved it. The romance kinda threw me. Like, I knew they would get together but I didn’t really see the need for a romantic relationship between them.  What they had almost seemed to transcend a physical relationship, if that makes sense.  So them getting together seemed kinda anti-climactic to me, because I figured it was a given.    The action was gruesome, fast-paced and steadily resolved. It was nice to not have to deal with a lot of dragging on when it came to that.

While this is a stand alone novel, there are side stories with the other characters that I think I may want to go back and revisit, if only  to get a better understanding of all the characters in this world.

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