My name is Mack, and this is my side of the story.
4 Suspenseful, Steamy Stars!
Review by Jen Hagen
Mack is 26 years old and has suffered from bipolar
disorder since she was a pre-teen. She
discovered that if she went off her medications for a short time that she develops
a high…supercharged and ready to conquer anything with a deadline as she does
not need sleep and her thinking process is off the charts. Besides being hyperaware of her thoughts, she
also becomes even more hypersexual during those times than normal. She has always been a very hypersexual
individual, but the high that comes from being off her meds causes her sexual
drive to become a DeLorean instead of a Volvo.
Mack and Gia were the best of friends growing up and
living next door. They had their future planned
out -- they were going to go to the same college on cheer/dance
scholarships. They have always been
inseparable so this was only a given that they would continue their lives
intermingled with each other. Sadly, an
event 7 years ago changed the course of their lives and broke their friendship. Mack and Gia no longer speak to each other.
I never confessed
how I was so messed up because of that night, or that I wake having nightmares
because of that night.
Mack continues to struggle with that night, and even with
therapy she is never able to confront what happened. Whenever her therapist becomes close to
having Mack relive the events, Mack finds a new therapist and starts her story
all over once again from the very beginning.
Mack doesn’t do relationships.
But Colton has seen her at her best/worst – depending on how you look at
her when she is off her meds. Colton has
been there for Mack to keep her grounded when the real versus unreal judgement
begins to cloud over from not taking her meds. Colton is there also to satisfy her
hypersexual needs. Colton is a very nice
guy and he admits to wanting to take things with Mack beyond sex.
“Let me be here for
you. Let me love you.”
Mack’s past includes too many lies, secrets and betrayals
to contend with. Too many times she’s
been told “Shhh” and now the truth versus lies are going to collide. Will the truth cause Mack to pull away from
everyone even more than she has already?
“People aren’t who
you think they are, are they, Mack?”
Mack has always run when things get tough and she gets
scared, never staying to see the outcome.
She is given a chance to see a glimpse of her past – one that she ran
far away from. Betrayals and lies are
unveiled. How she handles these will define if she has progressed towards
growth and acceptance, or if she will continue to be a runner from the
past.
Not only does Mack have the lies of that night to keep
hidden, she also has a long-going secret love affair that would do irreversible
damage to everyone around her if it was ever revealed. What if it wasn’t so well hidden that it
became the basis for revenge?
Oh I can’t forget to mention revenge…it’s a huge
subplot. It takes everything we thought
we knew about the situation and turns it around. The entire revenge scenario tickled my funny
bone because the revenge plan was completely backfiring. This person did not take into account Mack’s
need to have her medication.
“This is so f*cked
up…I didn’t bring your stupid ass here to watch you go whacko.”
I am a huge fan of Jettie’s writing. She can take the most unbelievable situation
and turn it into a romance novel, plus add an edge of eroticism to it. I have learned that Jettie is a master of not
letting the story play out in its entirety until the final pages and this story
was no different. I found it to be a little slow paced
for the first quarter of the book, but when it begins to pick up it never slows
down. It is told from present tense with
several glimpses into the past of pivotal moments that helped either form or
change the course of Mack’s life. Adding
to the suspense of this story is the prologue and epilogue being told from a
third point of view.
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