Reviewed by True

TITLE: Headcase

SERIES: Necessary Evils #4

AUTHOR: Onley James

PUBLISHER: Self-Published

LENGTH: 303 pages

RELEASE DATE: January 31, 2022

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Asa Mulvaney is half of a psychopathic whole. He and his twin brother live together, party together…kill together. In the Mulvaney family, murder is the family business and business is good. So, when an experiment separates Asa and his brother, Asa is forced to navigate the world on his own for the first time in his life.

Zane Scott is a small-time crime blogger, but he dreams of a byline in a major paper and his suspicions surrounding Thomas Mulvaney are about to make that dream a reality. When an invitation to a boring fundraiser lands him not beside Thomas, as he had hoped, but Asa Mulvaney, they share an intensely passionate encounter that leaves Zane trapped in a cage of his own making.

At a nearby college, a cluster of suicides isn’t what it seems. When Asa’s father asks him to look into it, he sees the perfect opportunity to exploit his little crime reporter and make him fall in line. And Asa needs him to fall in line. Zane is suspicious of Asa’s motives and half-convinced he’s dead either way, but he won’t say no to a chance to peek behind the Mulvaney family curtains.

As the two unravel a sinister plot, Asa’s obsession with Zane grows and Zane finds being Asa’s sole focus outweighs almost anything, maybe even his career—which is good for Asa because loving a Mulvaney is a full-time job. Can he convince Zane that he’s worth navigating a family of psychopaths and tolerating an almost too close for comfort twin? Or will Zane learn the hard way that the Mulvaney boys always get what they want? Always.

Headcase is a high heat, intense, lovers-to-frenemies, psychopath romance with an HEA and no cliffhangers. It features an obsessive, calculating psychopath and a wannabe reporter who will stop at nothing to earn himself a major byline. As always, there’s gratuitous violence, very dark humor, enough killers to fill an auditorium, and enough heat to melt your kindle. This is book four in the Necessary Evils series. Each book follows a different couple.

REVIEW:

This series has such a great original concept. At the head of the Family stands Thomas Mulvaney, a billionaire with a vision. He adopted all his sons, carefully selected them by their psychopaths’ minds. One way or the other, they are all special.
Like I said he has a vision, a purpose, for the simple-minded ones, not something to understand.
It’s quite contradicted, just read this series!

To solve the mystery around billionaire Thomas Mulvaney and his sons, Zane Scott must get closer to the man. In Thomas Mulvaney’s neighborhood, people got killed, there must be a story. It’s Zane’s big chance to put himself in the spotlight, to be seen, at last. After his brother died Zane was even more invisible to his awful mother.

Being separated from his twin Avi, Asa is getting crazy, or maybe getting more crazy than the psychopath he already is. His father is punishing him by sending Asa alone to a fundraiser diner, Asa needs an outlet or else he’ll kill.

Meeting Asa at the fundraising wasn’t difficult, only, Asa is the predator and Zane the prey.
Zane’s out of his mind, why isn’t he afraid, Asa is dangerous just like his whole family.
Being chased by Asa is hot as fuck. Zane feels seen. The things Asa makes him feel, is addictive.

With just one stupid move Zane ended up cuffed at Asa’s radiator, waiting to get killed or whatever this psychopath has in mind for Zane. Omfg if he only knew how Asa thought about him.
Thomas found that exact moment to give Asa an order to invest suicides at the university in the last two months, five suicided to be clear, clustered.

Asa wants to claim Zane, own him, mark him, show the world he’s his. And so he does, he’s brutal, animalistic, Zane’s walking with bruises all over, Asa is proud of them.
Their lovemaking slash fucking is deliciously rough and dirty.

The Mulvaney’s are as much a deadly as a fun family, they love gossiping, they made me laugh out loud more than once. Being part of them means they will give their life for you. They have the most creative minds, certainly when it’s about torturing, I was flabbergasted! I loved them hard!

The plot was just ingenious, amazingly intriguing and so well thought out. The parts where Asa and Zane come together are hugely sexy and sensual, certainly the animalistic parts.
While this story looks quite vicious it really wasn’t, we didn’t witness the horrible bloody parts, there was talk about, well except one suicidal act on video. Maybe you should keep that in mind.
There’s a bunch of sexiness, sweetness, roughness, obsessiveness, and possessiveness to find.
This narrative was immensely entertaining, strongly written, solidly build, it was super intense, rough, tough, emotional, and sexy af, watch their HEA, *hearts in eyes*
The main characters were enchanting and just like the whole family wrong on the good side, confused? Read it yourself!!

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