Review: White Out by A.A. Dark

White Out by A.A. Dark

Series: 24690 #2

Publication date: September 25th, 2016

Pages: 287

Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Synopsis:

~THIS IS BOOK 2. DO NOT READ THIS BOOK IF YOU HAVEN'T READ 24690~

For the briefest moment, revenge was sweet. My husband was suffering before my very eyes, and Bram... he was alive.

But happiness didn't last.

The man who claimed he wasn't my savior held true to his word. Bram didn't rush in and save me from the cruel fate of the White Room. No one did. Now I'm tortured with red light massacres and a hell I could have never imagined. Surviving will take everything I have, but I'm determined to get answers from the man who turned his back on me.

When I think it can't get worse... it does. Slave 24690 is all but gone. The evil woman reborn is what nightmares are made of. Insanity beckons, but even my madness won't derail the plans I've set in motion.

Masters will fall. Conspiracies will reign. But will I be strong enough to let go of the one thing that could ultimately destroy me?

****WARNING****This book contains EXTREMELY disturbing situations, explicit sexual content and very graphic language. This book EXCEEDS the dark genre and has been classified as PITCH BLACK. May contain triggers for some. Read at your own risk!

READING ORDER:

#1: 24690

#2: White Out

#3: Welcome to Whitlock (27001, 27009, & 27011)

#4: Black Out

The novellas 27001, 27009, 27011 can be found individually or in the complete set book titled, Welcome to Whitlock. They MUST be read before Black Out to understand the story completely.

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Review:

Everleigh is caught in absolute hell. She had thought she was gaining the upper hand against her psychotic husband but it was only a matter of time before she found herself in the White Room. Even after a poem reveals that Bram may be more alive than dead she can only find joy in the realization for a moment before reality sets in. She went through the worst treatment of her life, torture, pain, rape, and manipulation and the man who had claimed to have protected her all these years hadn't stepped in to save her once during the whole ordeal. She had to handle everything herself and it had noticeably cracked her mind wide open. She was not the same slave that he once knew and there may be nothing that he could do to bring her back. She had to step up and make her own future even if that meant becoming more Mistress than slave and conniving with the worst of them to do it. If it was the last thing she would do, she would find her freedom either with Main Master's permission or against his wishes.

I had been anxious to see if Bram was alive which is what kept me reading for the second book. I wish that I could have possibly not done so. The second book in the series just felt like it went on and on without nothing really happening other than the author steering a bit more away from the rapes and the manipulative relationship drama and trying to make the violence and death a lot more devastating to read. The problem with erotic horror is there are only so many terrible ways you can depict humans treating each other terribly before you run out of shock value. Once you introduce cannibalism there is nothing further you could delve into that would turn someone's stomach other than crimes against children. In this book such were touched on but never revealed in a scene (thankfully). I think I just ran out of shock for what was happening so it all just got a little dull for me. 

Bram was the one character I was really holding out hope for. In the first book he was an evil man but he had a soft spot for Everleigh. He would treat her badly as her station dictated but he would also protect her from further pain and punishment. It was the bare minimum but still, I had felt like he was the better option available to her. Then he came back into the picture and he was just as bad as Everleigh's husband was. So then I had no lesser evil between the men surrounding her so I became as disillusioned as she did about men in A.A. Dark's fictitious world.

The way the story ended I felt was how the series should have ended. I am not sure why there are more books in the series. There shouldn't be more story to tell at that point. Let it have a semi-happy ending and move on. But then the third book is apparently a bunch of novellas of other slaves between where book two ends and book four picks up... I think I will quit while I am behind at this point. The first book had some promise to be both a really dark book but with at least a good core couple to give a dose of wistful romance, but the second ruined every speck of good within anyone present. I wish I had found the second book more enjoyable because I do wonder why came of Everleigh.