Lunatic (Ruthless Asylum #1) by KL Savage-Review & Excerpt tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 26, 2021
Mania: A mental illness consisting of episodes of profound excitement, euphoria, delusions, and over-activity.
I deal with highs and lows, but somehow, I end up making the best of it.
My family disowned me, but family is the reason why I’m in Vegas.
Even with my inability to think straight, I end up being in charge of a bunch of runaway mental patients.
Control doesn’t exist if someone is fighting their mind. We have to break in order to mend.
Constantly.
Hence, The Asylum.
A sanctuary for lost causes.
Where crazy can roam free, and compulsions can be let loose.
My nephew says as long as it stays at The Asylum, we won’t have problems.
What fun would it be if problems didn’t exist?
And my problem is in the shape of a dancer, twirling on the front lawn in the middle of the night.
Her laughter is music.
Her beauty is timeless.
And my mania has kicked in overdrive.
When I’m obsessed with something, it’s more than what the normal person feels.
If I can’t have her, no one can.
If I can’t have her, I’ll die.
And I’ll make sure she’ll die too.
I’m a lunatic who has found the living breathing version of his mania.
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REVIEW:LUNATIC is the first instalment in KL Savage’s contemporary, adult RUTHLESS ASYLUM dark, erotic romance series, a spin off from the author’s RUTHLESS KINGS MC. This is Zain and Chloe/Jessica’s story line.
WARNING: LUNATIC deals with issues of mental illness, and contains graphic scenes that may be triggers for more sensitive readers.
SOME BACKGROUND: The Ruthless Kings MC purchased a former asylum in an effort to contain a violent assassin who targeted the members of the MC. With the return of Reaper’s uncle Zain, the asylum will become home to Zain, and a number of former asylum inmates with no place to call home.
Told from three first person perspectives (Zain, Chloe, Jessica) LUNATIC follows the atypical relationship between former asylum inmate Zain, and newcomer Chloe/Jessica. Zain spent thirty-five years in a psychiatric institute, an ‘insane asylum’, having been misdiagnosed and improperly medicated as a child but suffers with severe mood swings and bi-polar disorder, exacerbated by years of abuse and neglect. Forgotten by his family, Zain waits for the opportunity to escape, an opportunity that forces our anti-hero to kill. Upon his run to freedom, at the age of forty-five, Zain finds a home along with several other former ‘inmates’, with the Ruthless Kings MC but their volatile and uncontrolled mental disorders force Zain’s nephew and MC president Reaper, to set up the escapees in their own MC owned hospital asylum. Enter Chloe aka Jessica, the woman with whom Zain will fall instantly and obsessively in love. As Zain struggles to contain his own unstable mood swings, he will quickly discover that Chloe is more than he could ever have imagined.
The relationship between Chloe and Zain is unconventional as Zain’s obsessive and manic need for Chloe is compounded by our heroine’s need to run. Meanwhile, Jessica refuses to remain waiting in the wings, and forces Chloe, on more than one occasion, to to give into Jessica’s control which often over power the more shy and quiet Chloe-in this Zain finds himself falling for two distinct woman who share equally in their disordered compulsion for Zain. The $ex scenes are edgy, erotic and intense, and not without some questionable issues of consent due to the nature of the heroine’s illness.
LUNATIC is a quick read; a dark, gritty and atypical love story-there is no romance only obsession heightened and inflamed by infatuation, mania and mental illness. The premise is unique and unusual for a love story but KL Savage rarely writes commonplace stories- her characters are damaged and broken but in the end, everyone deserves someone to love.
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Reviewed by Sandy
NOTE: The Excerpt is intended for mature readers 18+ due to strong language and content
I’ll never take anything beautiful for granted.
“It’s such a gorgeous night!” a sweet, harmonic voice says from out of nowhere.
I sit up and glance around, staring back and forth to see if I can spot who the voice belongs to. I don’t see a damn thing. “Shit, maybe Reaper is right. I don’t need to be drinking right now.” I set the beer down and rub my eyes, fucking exhausted. It’s hard to sleep when my mind is always on, constantly with the thoughts, and battling the urge to not fucking lose it.
A giggle from my left wakes me up. I stand and run down the steps, wondering where the hell it is coming from.
“So much space!” The angelic tone is a song filtering through the exhaustion.
She’s getting closer now. It’s cold out here, and dark. What if she’s lost? She’ll need help. I spin around again, staring over the outline of the cactuses, but then the scuff and grind of sand sounds from behind me. I turn, holding my breath when the faint glow of the porch light illuminates against platinum blonde hair. Her arms are above her head, and she’s smiling as if she isn’t in forty-degree weather wearing a black dress that blends in with the night. Her skin is the color of cream, the kind someone puts in their coffee.
I’m enamored.
I stand there, staring at the most beautiful creature I’ve ever seen, watching her spin and dip like she’s a ballerina. Her movements are smooth and effortless, like waves in the sea, flowing in constant sets of perfection. One arm reaches out, like she’s stretching to touch an object that has her attention, and damn it, I wish it was me. Her back leg lifts and her dress dips low in the back and the material in the front falls over the leg on the ground.
My thoughts start to race, imagining her in my arms in bed, kissing her plump lips that are red from the cold air of the night, grabbing her tits that bounce with every graceful move she makes, and wanting her to be mine.
Only mine.
It’s dangerous when a man like me wants so deeply because I don’t have the ability to let go.
And I know if she were to ever be mine, I wouldn’t allow her to let go.
I’d take her will.
I’d take her freedom.
I’d take.
Until all there was in her world was me. All she could ever want is me.
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K.L. Savage decided they were tired of looking for the kind of books they wanted to read. They had an itch that needed to be scratched, and as every girl knows, nothing scratches better than an alpha.
They write about gritty, alpha males, sometimes their dark sides, and the women they love.
If you have the same itch, their alpha males should fix that.
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