Review: Monster by Joely Skye
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Title: Monster |
Joshua Mackay is hunting a “monster” in the park, Kiran Brunner. Kir has the ability to conceal himself, to make people forget his presence, and once even to convince a man to kill himself. The agency that contracted with Josh, a gay outsider, is out to hunt and control all the Minders: those like Kir who can manipulate the human mind. Supposedly Josh can relate to Kiran because the younger man occasionally hooks up for anonymous male-to-male intimacy.
Josh quickly discovers that the agency representative responsible for hiring him to bring in Kiran is a sadistic monster himself, after Kir not for the agency’s benefit but so that he may further abuse him. Josh overpowers Kir’s handler/rapist, Snow, and escapes with him, to take him to his older half-sister in Atlanta. Josh quickly discovers that Kir is a mass of contradictions: emotionally vulnerable and simultaneously psychically manipulative; abused and able to mentally abuse; a murderer by proxy and yet a victim. Yet Josh is immensely attracted to the younger man, as Kir is to him.
This is a very fast-paced exciting novella which will keep the reader turning the pages as quickly as possible. Both Josh and Kir will endear themselves to the reader immediately, and even the “villains” have their human sides. Joely Skye is most definitely a writer to watch, and this reviewer hopes she will be quite a prolific writer. Caution: the book deals heavily with m/m sensuality, so might not be suitable for some readers.
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