Quintessentially Q is a dark, compelling story that consumed me.
Pepper Winters took me on a heart wrenching, mind blowing, gut twisting journey
that in the end left me feeling spent but soaring high and free.
This, book 2 in the Monsters in the Dark series, picks up where
Tears of Tess leaves off. Just when I thought things were going to fall into
place for Tess and Q, my world got flipped. The traffickers that originally
kidnapped Tess return and she is literally ripped away from Q and plunged into
the depths of hell. The atrocities she endured shredded me. My heart cried out
for this woman. For her life, her soul, her mind and for Q.
My mind is a jumbled mess when it comes to describing Q. I think
the one word I can use to sum him up is power. Q is full-force, extreme power.
He will stop at nothing and no one to get Tess back. He welcomes his dark side
and engulfs himself in it. He is terrifyingly powerful in his ferocity.
"Je suis pire"
When Q finally does rescue Tess her mind is so warped with guilt
and disgust that nothing he does or says can penetrate the tower she’s enclosed
herself in. My heart broke to see these two people, so meant for each other,
ruined. Q didn’t give up though. He was desperate to have his Tess back. His
esclave. It hurt, physically hurt to watch Tess give up; to see the strong
fighter that I knew her to be lock herself up in her own mind because she was
weak and couldn’t face the things she was made to do. It pained me that she
couldn’t even put up the fight for Q. She made promises to him. He was her
everything. But she couldn’t unlock her mind for him.
Q’s final attempt to release Tess from the hold she had on herself
did me in. If my heart broke before at the ruin their relationship was in, then
the rest of me just shattered at what he put himself through to get her back.
"Je suis รก toi"
As painful as this book was to read at times, I never would have
missed it for the world. I loved every single agonizing moment of it. In the
end my heart was left elated to the point that it overrode all the bad.
Everything fell in to place. Q and Tess needed to go through the excruciating
hell they went through to get to the point they are at now. It was all
necessary and pivotal to make them who they are individually and together . . .
stronger.
"Les uns des autres"
I applaud Pepper Winters for not holding back with this series.
She takes us into the dark. It's ugly, raw, and painstakingly honest. I cannot
wait for the next one. I'll gladly follow her wherever she leads.
This review was originally posted in December 2013
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