BURN DOWN THE NIGHT | BY MOLLY O’KEEFE

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MY REVIEW:

Wow! I was not expecting much from this book, since I read it a few years ago and I and not sure why but I didn’t love it.

I started to review it and realized that I really didn’t remember much about the book so I decided to give it a reread. And omg am I glad I decided to do that.

Joan (Olivia) is a woman desperate to find her sister and get her out of the cult that she was in. she’s made so many mistakes up until this point in her plan to get her sister back but she doesn’t seem to care.

“Trust me, I know how crazy that sounds. But I’ve been the queen of crazy for the last few months. The last year, really. Who am I kidding? My entire life I’ve been at the epicenter of crazy. I am the hurricane’s eye.”

She’s a bit unhinged because everything that she’s tried thus far has failed and she just isn’t sure what else to do. So she decides to basically kidnap Max, but she’s also saving him.

She holds him captive to get what she needs from him, this doesn’t really sit well with Max.

Things start to heat up between the two.

But Joan isn’t use to anyone being good to her so she doesn’t even entertain the idea that her and Max would have anything good between them.

She’s had a tough life thus far and hasn’t always made the best choices. She is led by anger and despair. She doesn’t assume that anything will go right for her.

Joan’s always had to pretend and be something she isn’t, she doesn’t trust anyone enough to show them her real self. And she just doesn’t trust people period, because no one has been worthy.

“Save your act for other people. The lies and the show—I don’t want it. I want you. F***ed-up and crazy. I want you.”

But Max wants to know everything there is to know about Joan and what makes her tick. He also wants to know what turns her on so he can push all those buttons.

And let me tell you this book really heats up! I had to fan myself a few times. Their chemistry was off the charts! But of course Joan kept pulling away because she didn’t want Max to see the real her and how broken she was. She also didn’t want to care about Max.

“With Joan—I wanted her to peel back her armor. Her skin. I wanted to see her beating heart. Her ragged soul.”

“Don’t trust me. Don’t care about me. Don’t…even like me. And I will do the exact same for you. So when we walk away from each other…” It won’t hurt.”

Max has been through some stuff too, from crappy parents to trusting people that ending up turning on him.

He’s been in the life too long and just want to be done with it but like Joan, Max has seen and done something that have left him broken.

“No, you stop it,” I tried to fight free but he didn’t let me go. So all I had were my words and I used them like fists. “Stop pretending, Max. Stop pretending we’re people we’re not. Like you’re going to find me when this is all over and we’ve got some future with your goddamn boat. We don’t. I’m going to the cops, Max. And you’re a f***ing criminal. Don’t you see how this plays out for you?”

He starts to open up to Joan and starts to see the woman she is under all the attitude and realize that maybe he doesn’t want that life anymore. And maybe he wants a life with her.

But Joan keeps pushing him away.

“But I want you to tell me it hurts,” he said. “Stop playing this hard as ice game of yours and tell me that it hurts to push me away. Tell me that this thing between us matters to you.”

But Max is prepared, he knows exactly what she is doing and he also knows why she is doing it.

He see’s so much of himself in her that he understands her in a way that no one ever has before.

“You and me are so alike,” he said. “Everything is either-or. It’s one or the other. Us or them. Sacrificing ourselves for our family because that’s all we have to give up. But I’m not giving you up, Joan. Not yet. And you’re not alone. That’s my promise. You are not alone.”

“But I forced myself to look at him. To soak him in. His exhaustion and beauty. His bravery and selflessness. I made myself accept the fact that he was here for me. And that I deserved that. I deserved him. “I will always come,” he said. “If you need me. I’ll be there.”

Eventually Max starts to prove to Joan that maybe she can open up and trust not only him but the people in her life that are trying to help.

And maybe not everyone will disappoint her, if she opened up and gave them a shot they might actually surprise her.

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WOULD I RECOMMEND:

Yes!! You have to read this book. This book was amazing! I don’t know what I didn’t appreciate it the first time I read it. It made me actually want to go back and read the others in this series.

These two characters are so broken from everything that they’ve lived through and all the disappointment they had in their lives and you can feel that on the pages.

They begin to help each other heal and want to be better for each other.

Although Joan did annoy me a little with her need to continually push everyone away when all they wanted to do was help her.

But overall a great book that you should definitely read!

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Molly O’Keefe has always known she wanted to be a writer (except when she wanted to be a florist or a chef and the brief period of time when she considered being a cowgirl). And once she got her hands on some romances, she knew exactly what she wanted to write.

She published her first Harlequin romance at age 25 and hasn’t looked back. She loves exploring every character’s road towards happily ever after.

Originally from a small town outside of Chicago, she went to university in St. Louis where she met and fell in love with the editor of her school newspaper. They followed each other around the world for several years and finally got married and settled down in Toronto, Ontario. They welcomed their son into their family in 2006, and their daughter in 2008. When she’s not at the park or cleaning up the toy room, Molly is working hard on her next novel, trying to exercise, stalking Tina Fey on the internet and dreaming of the day she can finish a cup of coffee without interruption.

Dishing It Out, her last Harlequin Flipside won the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice award for best Flipside in 2005.

Her Superromance Baby Makes Three won the RT Reviewer’s Choice for best Superromance in 2006.  L-length Her novella, “The Christmas Eve Promise” in The Night Before Christmas won the RITA in 2009. And her full length contemporary romance CRAZY THING CALLED LOVE won the RITA in 2013.

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