Dark Hope - Monica McGurk
I really wanted to like this book, and there were parts in it that I did enjoy. But the majority of the book did not grab me as it did others.
Hope Carmichael had always lived an extremely sheltered and controlled life under the obsessively watchful eye of her religious fanatic of a father after being kidnapped and tattooed as a young child on the back of her neck. She finally goes to live with her mother, and she is looking forward to living like a normal teenager, doing what teens do.
She ends up meeting a teenage boy that has been emancipated, and to Hope he is drop dead gorgeous. But he is not your normal teenage boy, there is just something about Michael Hope can’t put her finger on, but she knows something is every different about Michael.
The book starts out full speed ahead and then just drops to a slow dragging lull. That is when I just got turned off by the book. I did end up finishing the book but it took quite a few tries of putting it down and then picking it back up.
I was offered a copy of this for a book tour I did for this book for free, I did not have to write a review for it but I figured since I read it I might as well throw my two cents in, sorry I did not like it like many other people did.