Reviewed by Caroline
TITLE: Psychopaths & Sinners
SERIES: Don’t… Book 5
AUTHOR: Jack L Pyke
PUBLISHER: Enspire Publishing
RELEASE DATE: May 22, 2018
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“Because us? Psychopaths and sinners… we don’t need fixing, Gray.”
Three bodies, three mutilations, each one with something… unusual inserted into the wounds. The deaths are enough to leave Ash Thomas scrambling around to find someone to trust as the murders hit so close to home and heart.
For Gray Raoul, MI5 director of G-Branch, the deaths offer something else, a fall back into a familiar life where culling serial killers cater to his own darker mindset. But the farther Gray moves away from home, the more he realises serial killer games in the field are nothing compared to who he has locked up back at home. Sometimes walking the fine line between psychopaths and live-in lovers is a far darker game.
For Ash, that might just mean he’s on his own now, facing a killer who has a deadly fascination for pretty young men and dancing Holly Blue butterflies over their skin.
REVIEW:
This book gets all the stars!!
Even though it raises more questions than it answers, even though Jack is still lost, even though my favourite trio are nowhere near back to where they should be and even though I have been left biting my fingernails (again!) for the next instalment Psychopaths & Sinners was everything I wanted and more than I expected and it was so, so good being back in the Don’t… universe.
I say this in every review for this series but it does need repeating – this series is dark and all that darkness is on page. This author doesn’t make it easy for her characters EVER and there is no HEA here but there is an absolutely absorbing storyline that moves everything forward and throws you back into the crazy world of Gray, Jan and Jack Martin from the start. This is the first full book in the series without Jack and I missed him a lot, as did Gray and Jan, but I am forever hopeful that at some point he will make it back to everyone he loves and Martin won’t have done too much permanent damage.
Reading Psychopaths & Sinners leaves you with an overwhelming sense that the worst is yet to come. Gray seems to be slipping between what he currently has and what he had and wants back – the lines are beginning to blur and for the first time in a while he doesn’t appear to be as controlled as he once was. It felt like the only thing keeping him grounded and in the here and now was Jan but there is damage there too which is made worse from outside interference that is a little too close to home for comfort.
Jan is beautifully strong and devastatingly delicate at the same time. The Ferryman’s interference has left him feeling vulnerable but when it comes to getting Jack back he seems to be the one that understands what is needed most and his strength comes in standing up to Gray to ensure that happens. Jan needs help but I think he needs Jack more and it will be interesting to see how strong he can remain and for how long when Jack is still so obviously lost.
Martin is completely in control and out of control at the same time. His games have no limits and his skills at manipulation know no end BUT every now and then just under the surface there is a glimmer of someone else. Someone who is scared, someone who needs his lovers and someone who is going to need to fight with everything he has to return. This is a real battle of wills that will ultimately decide the futures of three men who are all slightly unbalanced and who all need each other just to function and breathe.
There are so many other relevant characters here that all have their part in how this will eventually end. Jack L Pyke is a master storyteller that excels at giving you the story you wanted but leaving you with just as many questions as you began with. I see bleak times coming for all these men before anything changes – so many lies, secrets and personalities I’m sure the fallout is going to be huge but I also have everything crossed that will finally, finally get a bit of happiness back.
Highly recommended.
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