Gun Shy by Lili St. Germain

“Gun Shy” has a really good narrative and a pretty good pace, told from MPOV so you can be in the shoes of the victim and the criminal…just that in this scenario the book plays with the idea about who the real victim is? And who the real psychopath is? letting your mind fly high with the menu of options you can come to think of.

Telling the story of a tragic love so much more sadder than the one of Romeo and Juliet’s a love already blossomed that nothing and nobody can seem to get to break…until circumstances…happen…or at least that’s what the book makes us all believe. Leo and Cassie are high school sweethearts, knowing each other better than they know themselves but because a psychopath’s greed an accident and a sentence will have to make them apart for almost eight year, letting life to show them the worse things they are capable of endure.

It’s just me and my monster, just us in our house built out of bones and lies. Being as playful as destiny is, they meet again with the same strong love they used to have once, the time apart only being the cause to reinforce it; but now their relationship isn’t as easier as they thought it may be. Cassie is not the very same girl she used to be, Cassie is nothing alike as the girl she used to be being on the claws of a predator for that long she seems unable to escape from his reach risking Leo’s and everyone else’s life in the middle.

Leo’s the same goy just stronger and harder in his principles fighting desperately for the people he loves and the things he believes in…will find new and difficult obstacles to overcome in the way to happiness.

Jennifer, Karen and Hannah; are secondary characters, but not because of it they will be a fade memory in the reading of this book, but all the contrary will leave you with sentiments of anger, remorse, and compassion .

And of course Damon king the monster from this story, that even when you know his story… will still want to rip every single part of his body, because he´s not only living in the dark, but he irradiates darkness as he walks swallowing everyone that comes into his reach as long as he can takes what he really wants.

This is a fast reading, a book completely dark that will make you see life from another perspective. Liked it very much, totally recommended.