{"id":1776,"date":"2014-01-23T01:16:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T09:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2016-12-26T18:24:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T23:24:05","slug":"review-the-dark-light-of-day-the-dark-light-of-day-1-by-t-m-frazier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=1776","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Dark Light of Day (The Dark Light of Day, #1) by T.M. Frazier"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cWe\u2019re all a little damaged \u2026 Some of us more than others.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

4.5 \u2018HOLY SHIT THAT WAS INTENSE<\/u>\u2019 stars.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, I wanted a \u2018darker\u2019 read, and I dove into this book fully expecting darkness. I wasn\u2019t expecting to be smacked over the head with it though! Wow, this is gritty read! Definitely not one for the feint-hearted, but if you can handle raw, brutal, and devastating, then go for it \u2013 because it\u2019s a beautifully told, ultimately uplifting story that had me mesmerised from start to finish.<\/p>\n

Abby has lived a tormented life. She has endured so much in her 17 years, but she hasn\u2019t let it destroy her. She has developed coping mechanisms to deal with the pain of her past, and because of that she is incredibly cynical and closed off. With the death of her grandmother, she loses the last of her family and the only person who ever truly loved her. Desperate to avoid \u2018the system\u2019 that has failed her in the past, she runs, finding herself alone, homeless, and with nowhere to go.<\/p>\n

Jake is also running from his past. His father is an abusive drunk, and Jake has been living an itinerant life as a killer for hire since he was 18 years old. When he swings by his hometown to deal with his father\u2019s failing business, he never expected Abby, but from the moment he sees her, his whole world shifts.<\/p>\n

When Jake and Abby meet, they have an immediately intense connection (and some fantastic banter) and Jake extends a helping hand to her, offering her safety, a place to stay, and friendship, and the two of them share an understanding like they have never experienced before.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just\u2026\u201d He hesitated. \u201cI like the way you make the silence bearable.\u201d I knew instantly what he was talking about. I felt the same way.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Both acknowledge that they are fucked up and, wanting desperately to heal \u2013 themselves and each other – they start to open up to each other about their hideous pasts. And seriously, reading the scene where Abby shares her story with Jake was actually nausea-inducing it was so horrific! But somehow these two damaged souls find something incredibly special together.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow could broken plus broken ever equal whole?\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I need to say that there is a bit of insta love, and it did bother me while I was reading it. Here was Jake being all incredible and spouting off incredibly swoony lines that should have had me melting into a puddle of goo on the floor, but I found myself annoyed that it was happening so fast, and because it wasn\u2019t entirely believable to me, I didn\u2019t feel it as much as I wanted to. BUT, looking back now, it actually really works for the story. And going back and reading this quote after finishing the book almost had me in tears!<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy do I want to touch you? Are you fucking kidding me right now? I want to help you. I want to hold you. I want to make it all okay for you. I want to fucking touch you because you are the most beautiful person I\u2019ve ever seen, and I can\u2019t imagine never being able to hold your hand or kiss you.\u201d I thought that was everything, but then he added, \u201cAnd yes\u2014 I want to <\/i>fuck you , too, like I\u2019ve never wanted anything in my whole life.\u201d
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\n\u201cYou\u2019re not <\/i>nothing. Don\u2019t ever fucking say that again, because you\u2019re <\/i>everything.\u201d He said it again, quietly this time, \u201cYou\u2019re fucking <\/i>everything, Bee.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh. My. God. Yep! He\u2019s intense! But his intensity and the incredible love that these two share just makes the rest of the book so much more amazing, because the story takes a huge twist and goes off in a direction that I certainly didn\u2019t see coming!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve already said this book is dark, but let me say again \u2013 it\u2019s DARK! It\u2019s shocking, it\u2019s brutal, and it\u2019s disturbingly graphic, and the way that Frazier has written certain scenes in this book just blew me away. She gets you right into the heart of what the characters are going through (particularly Abby because the book is told from her POV), and my heart broke for her. Actually no, it shattered for her.

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The pure evil that is Owen, the calculated evil that is his mother\u2026 the attack, the betrayal, the shooting\u2026 and four years!!!! <\/div><\/div>\u00a0 OMG, I think I\u2019m still slightly traumatised by it!<\/p>\n

But even with the horrors, there are some lighter moments. Abby\u2019s strength is truly incredible. She goes through so much in this book, yet time and time again, she just picks herself up and keeps going, and I really admire her for that! I also really liked the duality of Jake\u2019s character \u2013 he\u2019s a sexy, smart-mouthed, badass biker with a dangerously violent side, but he\u2019s also an incredibly loving guy with a huge heart who wants nothing more than to love and protect his girl. And, of course, their love story is absolutely incredible, and despite the insta-love element at the beginning, I was swooning and squeeing pretty much every time Jake opened his mouth. His love for Abby is all-consuming, he is nothing but accepting and supportive of her, and I love that he never holds back.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese scars don\u2019t make you ugly. You don\u2019t need to hide them from anyone. Fuck anyone who thinks anything on someone like you could ever be anything but beautiful. You should be proud of them, baby.\u201d
\n\u201cProud?\u201d How could I be proud of the ugliness on my body, left on me courtesy of the ugliness in people?
\n\u201cYes, proud. They make you powerful . Each line is a road traveled, an experience you had, whether it was good or bad. Each mark is proof of pain in the past, not the present. You are a survivor, you are a warrior. These are the scalps hanging from your fucking belt. You took the beatings and here you are, in front of me.\u201d He kissed me softly on my lips and my mouth opened to him before he pulled away again. \u201cYou are fucking amazing.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Their relationship is honest, and I love the way that they open up to each other. It\u2019s not all sunshine and rainbows between them, and at one point I wanted to smack somebody, but they have some incredibly beautiful moments, and some incredibly hot moments, and I loved the bond that was so clearly there.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, we don\u2019t fit any mold. But, where you are concerned, it\u2019s simple.\u201d He kissed along my jaw line. \u201cI want you, Abby. No bullshit . I want you just the way you are.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This book is a standalone, so we get a complete story which, although drags you through emotional hell while you\u2019re reading, does have a happy ending that left me very satisfied\u2026 mwahahaha. It\u2019s compelling, it\u2019s heartbreaking, and a beautiful story of love and family. I thought it was an amazing read.<\/p>\n

I loved it! 4.5 stars.<\/p>\n

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The Dark Light of Day Series<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Dark Light of Day (#1)\u00a0<\/strong>(Jake & Abby)
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Dark Needs (#1.5)\u00a0<\/strong>(Jake’s POV novella)
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Buy:\u00a0\u00a0Kindle Ebook\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0Paperback Review \u201cWe\u2019re all a little damaged \u2026 Some of us more than others.\u201d 4.5 \u2018HOLY SHIT THAT WAS INTENSE\u2019 stars. Well, I wanted a \u2018darker\u2019 read, and I dove into this book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","yasr_overall_rating":4.5,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"Product","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[297,88,47,49,9,29],"tags":[105,48,103],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-angsty","category-badasses","category-dark-gritty","category-feeeeeeels","category-romance","category-steamy","tag-dark-light-of-day","tag-review","tag-t-m-frazier"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dark-Light-of-Day.jpg?fit=150%2C224&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gaNL-sE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}