- Title: The Dark Light of Day
- Author: T.M. Frazier
- Format: Kindle Edition
- Kindle Price: $3.99
- Length: 267 (estimated)
- Release Date: 12/5/13
Synopsis:
Warning: This is not
your typical romance. The story of Abby & Jake contains disturbing
situations, graphic violence, sex, rape, strong language, drug use, and
all types of abuse.
Abby has been through hell and has survived one of the most brutal childhoods imaginable…barely.
To the outside world she's just a loner with an attitude.
When her grandmother dies in a tragic explosion, Abby is left with questions-and nothing else.
Homeless,
sleeping in a junkyard, and on the run from a system that has failed
her over and over again, she meets Jake, a tattooed blue-eyed biker with
secrets that will rival her own.
Two broken souls that can't be healed. They can't be saved.
Abby
& Jake must reveal to one another their most guarded secrets and
discover if they can embrace the darkness those secrets hold-and the
darkness within themselves.
If they can accept one another for who they really are, they might be able to learn that love isn’t always found in the light.
Review:
Spoiler Alert!
HOLY SHIT! That was my first thought when I got finished with this book. What did I just read? Was my second thought. I couldn't believe what I was reading when I was reading it. My heart goes out to Abby & Jake. Jake, such a hot guy, was a broken man. Abby, such a strong girl, was a broken girl. Together they put themselves back together, as much as possible.
Abby had so many things happen to her, in her childhood, but came out strong. She was an accident, not meant to be born, her parents were drug addicts. Whenever her mother didn't have money to get her next fix, she would use Abby as payment. Abby endured as much as she could, before she was taken by the government to live with her grandmother. Her grandmother tried for four years to give Abby the love she deserved from the day she was born. Finally after about four years of living with her grandmother, Abby started to finally feel loved. Abby's graduation day, she gets terrible news, her grandmother is dead. Feeling alone and lost with nobody to run to Abby just gives up. She won't go back into foster care. Therefore she has no place to live. She starts to live in her grandmother's old truck that is in a junkyard. While she's there one night, she meets Jake. So the story begins.
Jake, when he was younger, was an amazing kid. One tragedy after another and he looses both his mom and younger brother, therefore loosing his father as a result of his mother and brother's death. After death struck the family, Jake and his father don't get along anymore. Jake's father turns to alcohol to numb the pain of loosing half of his world. He gets a temper whenever he's drunk, therefore taking it out on Jake. Jake gets tired of it and leaves. He becomes a contracted killer. Never settling down in one place for long, always going. He comes home to help his father's business, there he meets Abby.
Jake was such a strong hero for Abby, but so broken. I couldn't believe the love he held for Abby after everything that had happened to him. And vise versa with Abby. Everything that happened in their childhoods and they were still able to love as fiercely as they did. When Jake went out to do his hopefully last contract kill, saying he would be gone for a few weeks, Abby got raped by the town "good boy" Owen. I cried like a baby while reading Abby getting raped. I felt just as helpless as she did lying there. I cried even harder whenever Jake came home weeks later and had heard that she had sex with Owen, and he accused her of it. Abby had never been trusted in her life, so she just fell apart whenever Jake accused her of sleeping with Owen. I just bawled like a baby whenever she found out she was pregnant with Owen's baby, from the rape. She found out way later in the book, after some unfortunate circumstances, Owen was not after all the father of her daugher, Jake was. I was elated by this news! I was ready to jump for freaking joy whenever that came out.
This book overall, kept me on my toes, made me cry, made me cringe, made me laugh, and made me smile. I was in awe of the author and what she was able to create with this book. I could not have read a better "dark" read. I went in without any real knowledge of this book and it did not disappoint.I would definitely recommend this book to any body that can handle some violence, language and drugs. This book was "5 heart-wrenching stars!"
