ISBN: 978 - 0374228194
Publish Date: May 8th 2018
Read Date: 06/17/2018 - 06/27/2018
I received Our Kind of Cruelty as part of a Goodreads giveaway. My honest review is not required.
When does love meet obsession?
Mike Hayes had the worst childhood one could imagine. An alcoholic mother with a parade of abusive men in and out of her home. It stands to reason that Mike may not fully understand love and treatment of a loved one.
After being removed from his mothers care, Mike entered foster care. His foster parent tried very hard to teach him how to love, and be loved in return. They thought they had done a decent job. They got Mike through school, and even got him into college.
During college Mike met Verity, (V). There was an instant attraction, as Verity is that girl that every boy wants to date, and every girl wants to be. Mike became deeply devoted to V. He worked until he had the successful career meant to support V. The physique one would expect of a partner of a woman such as V. Created the perfect home he believed V to belong in.
Mike and Verity had a very sexual relationship, even creating a game of sorts out of it. The couple would enter a bar separately, and Verity would use her striking good looks to entice an unsuspecting man to flirt with her. She would then signal mike, using a secret code only they knew and he would swoop in to her rescue.
Then Mike agreed to take a job in New York, leaving V in England. During his time in NY he kept in constant contact with V, wanting to know every part of her day. Then he ran into Carly, and Mike had an affair. Deeply disturbed by what he had done, he returned to V during Christmas and revealed his shamless act to her. Thus prompting V to end their years long relationship. Little did Mike know, V had secrets of her own.
Mike receives an invitation to Vs wedding in the mail. Mike is in denial about the wedding and has convinced himself that this V has started up their old game. Mike decides he is all in. He is willing to play.
What Mike doesn't understand is this is no game. Verity is deeply in love with her new fiancee, wanting no more than a friendship with Mike.
Mike is not willing to let Verity go.
One night, it all comes to a head when Veritys new husband arrives at Mikes house, highly drunk. An altercation occurs leaving Verity to arrive to witness one of the men dead.
** Large amounts of sexual content, may not be appropriate for younger readers**
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