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Darkling I listen and for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death
Call’d him soft names in many a musèd rhyme
To take into the air my quiet breath.

~ John Keats

I appreciate imperfect characters in a well-written story: fragile souls with flaws. If you have read any book descriptions by Katherine Sutcliffe -I read Dream Fever some time ago and awarded it four stars- you know one or both of the main protagonists carry some form of trauma. *You need to read this with caution.*

Brandon Carlysle lost his young father to a tragic accident in his early childhood. His mother, if you could call her that, was simply horrible. She steered her young son into becoming a Hollywood sensation. And while riding the money train, she messed with his head and encouraged despicable behavior. Needless-to-say, I skimmed some parts. At eight years of age, he had been introduced to alcohol to numb his life. By 13 years old, he was an alcoholic. It was heartbreaking.

There were several villainous persons. By now you know one was the awful mother. The second had connections within Hollywood. And the third was a whackadoodle that was referred to as Anticipating. He/she -I am not releasing the identity!- provided the twist-full of suspense.

Brandon was not an easy person to like but I understood why. When Alyson James approached him for his story- by then he was released from prison- he had been considering suicide. The man triggered conflict.

This heartrending romance read like a story written in the early 1990s but it wasn’t. Alyson had a big secret. The tension ‘Anticipating’ provided crumpled my prediction of who I thought the person was. I wondered how many of Ms. Sutcliffe’s personal experiences with Hollywood affected this story.

Prepare yourself to cleanse your mental palate after you are finished reading.


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Darkling I Listen Katherine Sutcliffe 9780515131529 Books Reviews

I'm not sure why everyone thinks Brandon is at the top of the tortured hero charts, because, yes, what happened to him is awful, but compared to some of the other heroes i've read about, his past wasn't that shocking (though that didn't stop me from wanting to give him a hug and take away his pain).

I think there was too much of the secondary characters. Yes, I think the author was making an attempt to develop them, but...she didn't even really do that. There was one character who spent the whole book mentally ill and then at the end, bam, she was suddenly healthy and sane. It made no sense.

As for Brandon, I liked him but didn't find him original or special in any way. Everyone in the book kept saying Brandon had this horrible awful temper, but he never showed it. Maybe one time, but, still, it wasn't anything that big. And he was supposedly a psycho when drunk, yet the one time he actually gets drunk during the book, he's completely calm and rational, even nice. Contradictions much?

The issues of his past where barely brushed and discarded too quickly, not that I really WANTED more details, but I would have liked a little more of his mother, who only appeared at the very end for about two pages. After Brandon confesses his past to Aly, she say not one single word, literally. It could have been done better.

Aly was all right. I honestly can't say I liked her that much. Didn't hate her, didn't love her. She was annoying at times, but generally okay. Henry was supposedly, as Aly thought, the "ideal father," though I didn't think so...he once commented lightly that he used to beat Brandon with his belt, and unless he meant that figuratively, I don't see how he is "ideal."

There was too much of Aly. At one point toward the end, we go a good fifty pages without once encountering Brandon. And the whole end was drawn out for about 100 pages too long. The characters spent time making small talk while Brandon was in serious, life-threatening danger.

As for Anticipating...I knew who this person was during their very first scene. It was very obvious.

Aly seemed confused as a character. One second she is thinking how kind and tender and caring Brandon is toward his uncle and invalid aunt, then next she's describing him as a man with "no conscience" who "cares for no one but himself."

I'm not going to blame Aly for this. I blame Sutcliffe.

Brandon...self-centered w/ no conscience? Really? Then why does he hide all of his problems from his uncle b/c he's afraid of weakening the older man's health? WHy does he donate millions of dollars to charity? Why is he so kind and nice to his aunt and uncle? Why did he refrain from commiting suicide simply becase he knew it would hurt his uncle? If that's a man w/ no conscience who only cares for himself, then I'm a teapot.

Also, I don't think it was very nice of Aly to be waving beer in Brandon's face ALL NIGHT when he's a recovering alcoholic. She's kind of a bitch. Minus the "kind of."

Overall...it was an entertaining read, and I liked that, for once, the stalker was after the hero and not the heroine (that's never happened before). The heroine made an attempt to rescue the hero, but it really turned out to be the hero who rescued her in the end, which was annoying, because I thought it would be different at first. Pretty fast paced, worth reading, but...nothing I'd like to read again and again.
Darkling I listen and for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death
Call’d him soft names in many a musèd rhyme
To take into the air my quiet breath.

~ John Keats

I appreciate imperfect characters in a well-written story fragile souls with flaws. If you have read any book descriptions by Katherine Sutcliffe -I read Dream Fever some time ago and awarded it four stars- you know one or both of the main protagonists carry some form of trauma. *You need to read this with caution.*

Brandon Carlysle lost his young father to a tragic accident in his early childhood. His mother, if you could call her that, was simply horrible. She steered her young son into becoming a Hollywood sensation. And while riding the money train, she messed with his head and encouraged despicable behavior. Needless-to-say, I skimmed some parts. At eight years of age, he had been introduced to alcohol to numb his life. By 13 years old, he was an alcoholic. It was heartbreaking.

There were several villainous persons. By now you know one was the awful mother. The second had connections within Hollywood. And the third was a whackadoodle that was referred to as Anticipating. He/she -I am not releasing the identity!- provided the twist-full of suspense.

Brandon was not an easy person to like but I understood why. When Alyson James approached him for his story- by then he was released from prison- he had been considering suicide. The man triggered conflict.

This heartrending romance read like a story written in the early 1990s but it wasn’t. Alyson had a big secret. The tension ‘Anticipating’ provided crumpled my prediction of who I thought the person was. I wondered how many of Ms. Sutcliffe’s personal experiences with Hollywood affected this story.

Prepare yourself to cleanse your mental palate after you are finished reading.