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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Review: Empathy (Empathy #1) by Ker Dukey

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Blake:
I am a brother
I am a police detective
I am a contract killer
I don’t want to love
I don’t want to feel
I don’t want … EMPATHY.

They say some people are born with decreased activity in the front central lobe causing them a deficiency in empathy. Maybe that’s true about me but whether I was born this way or created in a moment of evil, empathy was something I didn’t possess until her green eyes met mine in the mirror and I couldn’t take her life.

I didn’t want to feel, didn’t want this woman in my life complicating how I lived but she was there at every turn. Sent to haunt me for my sins. Her light so bright she provoked a shadow from everyone she touched. When a job turns bad quickly altering my life forever I’m forced to feel. When nothing is making sense I’m forced to face truths I never would recover from. When life drowns you in its cruelty you don’t know which way the current will drag you or who you’ll become once you re-surface.

Melody:
I was a daughter
I was a student
I was a victim
Did I have his love?
Did I make him feel?
Did I have his empathy?

When the actions of a soulless killer forces sorrow into my veins I never dreamed the man healing my wounds would be the one to leave the worst scar. His love would scar my soul. Scars are permanent; I will never feel the relief from them. Will I learn to live with them, remember why I have them and learn never to let him close enough to inflict more?

Will I eventually cover them… like tattoos coating them with new memories, new love and new starts? I didn’t know these answers because the pain was too suffocating, the only thing I knew was they will always be under the surface lingering. He had scars too, from his sins. There is nothing that can cover them, they were too deep, too ugly, too dark and they marked us both forever.

Warning: This book will mess with your mind. It is a very dark, sexy, twisted romance novel. 18+ only.



*Complimentary copy received for review purposes.

Let’s start out by saying holy cow! This book was suspenseful, an emotional rollercoaster, and had me hooked from the prologue. I read the prologue and said am I really going to like this? This is pretty wicked. I gave this book 5 stars. I was completely set on feeling one way towards Blake throughout the whole story to have my thoughts completely turned upside down at the end when the truth of the story came out.

I want to use this quote directly from the book to help tell my version of empathy without spoilers. “They say some people are born with decreased activity in the brain; a cold spot in the front central lobe. Where most people have activity, a hot area giving these feelings, emotions, and enabling them to love, there are a few who have a cold spot, affecting their ability to feel emotions, empathy. There are theories that serial killers have this cold spot. Psychopaths. That’s why they lack the ability to connect, to care.” Was Blake born this way or created in a moment of evil? Is it possible Melody was his sunshine? Was she what broke through all the empathy and made him feel, made him love?

Melody was a daughter and student who was grieving. Who would be the one to help her cope? Literally running into Blake was what turned him into having nightly dreams of her Jade Green Eyes. Were his thoughts and dreams enough to control his desire for her? Blake was a jerk. Did she love him or hate him? Or was it that she hated herself for wanting him? The connection they share is not what it seems. Just like I said above, when you think you got it all figured it out. The ending and the truth is not at all what I pictured based on what information was given in the beginning to make you believe what you “thought happened.”

Is someone you love and care about who you really think they are? Do they hide emotions and/or a side no one knows about? This story really lets you see into the sickness that psychopaths experience in their head. What do they thrive on? What fuels them to be the way they are or act the way they do? Will you do anything to protect the one you love? Will the truth put Blake at ease? Will he be able to live with his past? I hope you enjoy this novel as much as I did. I hope Ker Dukey will give more into these characters, maybe in another book…




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