Title: The Goodbye Girl (Red Market, #2)
Authors: Mary E. Palmerin & A. Giannoccaro
Publication Date: April 18, 2016
Goodreads: http://bit.ly/RedMarket2
Book Description:
The Red Market is where every pound of flesh has a price tag tacked onto it. It is a place where money can buy you everything, even a heart.
Caesar has fallen and a new boss, Mateo, has risen; but he has lost his Lettie Doll and he doesn't know where to find her. She stole his soul and now he must find someone to replace her. Just like her love, his new power is an illusion. The real force behind the Red Market is about to show her cards and no one wants to play her game.
Mateo and Lettie will both have to fight to find their love, but sometimes it is only found in death. You cannot go through life unnoticed by demise when you play with it every day. Sooner or later, it catches up with you and you lose.
**Graphic content warning. Taboo, violent themes prevalent throughout. Reader discretion is highly advised.***
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Teaser:
I am unreasonable. I used to be the quiet girl who listened and
took what she thought she deserved, but as the pieces of time come back
together like a painful puzzle, I am shriveling down to nothing except the
splinters of love and psychosis of my mind. I am totally unhinged, yet through
this cacophony of chaos, I am strangely finding myself.
-Svetlana, The Goodbye Girl
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Our Review:
Reviewed by Donna ~ 4 stars
***ARC received for an honest review***
“Torture. Pain. Insanity. They
all meet again, and the lamb eats herself, birthing a wolf set to kill.”
Never has a series tested every boundary I never knew I had…until
this duet. This book has everything you read about in newspapers but never
truly believed existed. It is far from glamourous, far from normal and totally
depraved, disgusting and horrific, but I have to admit became an addictive read
that I couldn’t put down and desperately wanted to finish. I felt sick, I felt
disgusted, I cringed but I achieved something…I finished it.
“I realise that all I long for is
hello at the end of the day, a person. A someone who will be there when the
goodbyes are over.”
This duet primarily centres on the “Red Market” organ
trafficking, where the streets are rid of unwanted’s and their live bodies are
taken to The Goodbye Man to be put to sleep and their organs harvested and sold
on the black market. As you can imagine, to do something like this in the first
instance needs certain individuals, individuals without scruples and most
certainly certifiably insane and more or less every character in this story
desperately needed an asylum. This book contains incest, necrophilia and rape
and while you would think that the organ harvesting would be hard enough
nothing prepares you for the dark, depravity that some characters unleash in
this book that they tried desperately to control in The Goodbye Man.
“Ugly people’s hearts are the
same as beautiful ones, they still beat.”
If you have read The Goodbye Man you know what you are
letting yourself in for in some regards. The writing once again is on point and
while I found it a little slow going in the middle it really picked up after
and for once I could see light at the end of the tunnel. I have to say that how
these two authors came up with these characters makes me question their sanity
because they seriously must have hacked into the darkest recesses of their
brains to ever bring these characters to life. While these characters stretch your
imagination to the very limit, these authors gave their character’s heart, they
may be black but every character had redeeming qualities and issues that truly
were the roots to their evil. I can’t condone what they do or have done but the
authors do hammer home that they were not born evil, evil happened to them to
make them this way.
“Some boys have a special bond
with their mothers, a tether that ties them to the womb from whence they came.
I would cut my mother’s heart out in an instant.”
Svetlana, this girl seriously never catches a break and
after the end of The Goodbye Man you knew it wasn’t going to get any better in the
first instance. This girl is the strongest woman I have read about. What she
has endured and what she continues to endure are testament to her inner
strength and her resilience and any other person would have capitulated by now
and seriously given up the ghost. While Svetlana has her inner and outer scars,
deep inside she is still a little girl that wanted to be loved. Loved as in a
mother loves a daughter, not the horrific and depraved “love” she has been
shown so far, but it seems the sick and twisted has left her permanently
scarred. Svetlana needs to find her new normal and while it is far from
perfect, it was perfect for her.
“Torn apart by the nasty that
surrounded me, siphoned from any decency, I clung onto a sliver of hope as the
man with dark eyes and hair haunted my dreams. Little did I realize back then,
he would be my salvation both physically and mentally, and I would be the same
for him.”
I am purposely not going to mention the male characters this
time as I don’t want to spill any spoilers but the series is perfectly wrapped
up for everybody in more ways than one. Somethings I saw coming, some I didn’t
but I did feel that one person in particular got the only redemption he would
ever need. While sometimes it hurt to read, knowing the characters, knowing
their inner torment and turmoil some things need to be said and done and most
got what they deserved.
“We all have a little darkness in
us. I have my own monsters that I wrestle each day, but my monsters will leave
with them. I will finally be free to find all that I have lost.”
I very much doubt I will ever find another book like this,
yes it is unique, yes it pushes boundaries, definitely don’t eat while reading
but appreciate that these authors tested your limits, pushed your boundaries
all while delivering an addictive story that while you should have detested it and
put it aside you can’t help but read and see the good amongst the evil.
Other Books in Series ~ The Goodbye Man
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Dysfunctional empires were made to fall.
I am Caesar. Broken and conflicted. I am a man who gives false goodness to those who crave it. I provide solace to the ones who beg to be saved, giving them the goodbyes they want. But, my quiet little world is about to be shattered by the whispers from heaven and hell.
I am Mateo. Unlovable and unworthy. I am the boy everyone runs from. I keep love close to me in little jars of perfection, reminding me of a thousand goodbyes I never had to say, because I left them before they could leave me.
I am Svetlana. Dirty and Used. Birthed into brutality while still trying to comprehend my version of normal. I am an injured lamb, eaten by filthy wolves day after day. Just as salvation seems like it's within reach, a goodbye from this awful world is all that I wish for.
**Graphic content warning including detailed depiction of brutal, bloody acts. Physical and emotional abuse is also apparent throughout this book with graphic sex scenes, both consensual and non-sensual. Reader discretion is highly advised. Not suitable for readers under the age of eighteen or those who are easily offended by the above mentioned acts.**
About the Authors:
⇒ A. Giannoccaro
Author of the Colour series, a dark romance.
“Our skin is clothing enough to cover what we hide inside.”
⇒ Mary E. Palmerin
International bestselling author of the Monster series. Writer of dark, taboo tales. Lover of tattoos, art, and a hopeless book junkie.
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