Ghosts of War (2020)
6.2
Rate It
Movie
Five American soldiers assigned to hold a French Chateau near the end of World War II. This...
Happy Racing - Online Wheels
Games
App
HAPPY RACING is a rag-doll physics-based game with many inadequate characters trying to reach the...
Children of the Different
7.0
Rate It
Book
Nineteen years ago, a brain disease known as the Great Madness killed most of the world’s...
Australia Dreams Zombies Post-apocalypse
Merissa (11950 KP) created a post
Jul 28, 2022
Heather Cranmer (2721 KP) rated A Kiss of Madness in Books
Jan 14, 2019
The synopsis for A Kiss of Madness sounded very interesting. It could have been a very interesting book except there's too much going on in the story. Lydia gets sent to Brocker's Center for the Criminally Insane after having a vision and throwing a chair through a window as well as attacking an innocent bystander. She could have chose jail time or to voluntarily commit herself to Brocker's. She chose the latter. While there, she gets feelings about people and doesn't feel like she belongs. She meets three guys who are patients with their own issues. However, she ends up thinking they're hot, and they also think she's hot. The guys all agree to be her boyfriends and end up following her everywhere. When one of the other female patients goes missing, Lydia tries to uncover what really happened putting herself in grave danger. I was confused if A Kiss of Madness was trying to be more of a romance novel, a mystery/crime novel, or a paranormal novel. I got the insane asylum vibe for a few chapters, but soon this book lost its whole mental illness vibe. I felt like the insane asylum setting was just thrown in there to make this book sound more interesting than it actually was. It soon turned more into an erotic novel which made me like the book even less. There was just too much pointless fairly graphic sex for my liking. I feel like all the fairly graphic sex and sexual references really took away from the story. I also didn't like the ending. It just felt too rushed. Actually, the whole story just felt really rushed. I also didn't understand how one character who had a violent past could have such a great job. I won't go into further details because it's a spoiler.
I started out liking Lydia and was on her side for the first few chapters or so. However, I found myself losing the connection I felt with her the more I read. She just came across as being very irresponsible and immature. I didn't really care for Pierce, Emmett, or Mason/Jason either. None of the characters in A Kiss of Madness were fleshed out enough to be likable or believable.
The pacing starts out great in A Kiss of Madness. However, it soon slows down once the sex scenes come into play. Then it slows down and becomes more of a smut novel instead of a decent read. Luckily this is a short read or I would have given up on it when I got to the sex parts.
Trigger warnings for A Kiss of Madness include violence, murder, mental illness, attempted sexual assault, fairly graphic sex scenes, sexual references, and profanities.
Overall, A Kiss of Madness started out great. However, it soon went downhill close to halfway through the book. I feel like this book feels more like a rough draft on what could be a decent read. It just needs a lot more work to be good. Get rid of a lot of the pointless sex scenes and references, bulk up the story and characters a bit, decide on what angle to go with, and give this book some guts! At this time, I would not recommend A Kiss of Madness by K.B. Everly and Stacy Jones.
Down Salem Way (Loving Husband #4)
Book
How would you deal with the madness of the Salem witch hunts? In 1690, James Wentworth arrives in...
Historical Fiction
Dean (6925 KP) rated Heavenly Creatures (1994) in Movies
Feb 24, 2018
Serial Killers
9.0
Rate It
Podcast
Every Monday, Serial Killers takes a psychological and entertaining approach to provide a rare...
Punch Up The Jam
6.0
Rate It
Podcast
Miel Bredouw and Demi Adejuyigbe are comedians, writers, and best friends, with absolutely no...
Martini Hour
Podcast
Sit back, pour yourself a drink, and enjoy all things digital imaging with self-appointed computer...