Title: The Goodbye Girl (Red Market, #2)
Authors: Mary E. Palmerin and A. Giannoccaro
Publication Date: April 18, 2016
Synopsis
The Red Market is where every pound of flesh has a price tag tacked onto it. It is a place where money can buy you everything, even a heart.
Caesar has fallen and a new boss, Mateo, has risen; but he has lost his Lettie Doll and he doesn’t know where to find her. She stole his soul and now he must find someone to replace her. Just like her love, his new power is an illusion. The real force behind the Red Market is about to show her cards and no one wants to play her game.
Mateo and Lettie will both have to fight to find their love, but sometimes it is only found in death. You cannot go through life unnoticed by demise when you play with it every day. Sooner or later, it catches up with you and you lose.
**Graphic content warning. Taboo, violent themes prevalent throughout. Reader discretion is highly advised.***
I am unreasonable. I used to be the quiet girl who listened and took what she thought she deserved, but as the pieces of time come back together like a painful puzzle, I am shriveling down to nothing except the splinters of love and psychosis of my mind. I am totally unhinged, yet through this cacophony of chaos, I am strangely finding myself.
-Svetlana, The Goodbye Girl
The Goodbye Man (Red Market, #1)
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Dysfunctional empires were made to fall.
I am Caesar. Broken and conflicted. I am a man who gives false goodness to those who crave it. I provide solace to the ones who beg to be saved, giving them the goodbyes they want. But, my quiet little world is about to be shattered by the whispers from heaven and hell.
I am Mateo. Unlovable and unworthy. I am the boy everyone runs from. I keep love close to me in little jars of perfection, reminding me of a thousand goodbyes I never had to say, because I left them before they could leave me.
I am Svetlana. Dirty and Used. Birthed into brutality while still trying to comprehend my version of normal. I am an injured lamb, eaten by filthy wolves day after day. Just as salvation seems like it’s within reach, a goodbye from this awful world is all that I wish for.
About the Authors
A. Giannoccaro
Author of the Colour series, a dark romance.
“Our skin is clothing enough to cover what we hide inside.”
Mary E. Palmerin
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International bestselling author of the Monster series. Writer of dark, taboo tales. Lover of tattoos, art, and a hopeless book junkie.
Giveaway
This is the second book in the Red Market series and this is as deliciously dark as the first one!
After reading the first book in this series I was completely and hopelessly hooked on the dark and
depraved world created by these authors and I couldn’t wait to see where they took these characters
next. I was definitely not disappointed at all with this and my mind is still reeling days after having
finished reading this. I find it necessary to warn that the subject matter covered here is not simply dark,
but is deeply disturbing and at times completely deranged and will definitely offend anyone who is
sensitive to this type of material at all. Having said that, I could not get enough of this book and became
so immersed in the dark and twisted world created by these authors that nothing else mattered except
finishing this and finding out what was going to happen. I was pleased with the way this story played out
and felt that the ending was a nice surprise, especially with everything that had happened up to that
point. I have to be honest in saying that I’m truly surprised that Svetlana is even alive after everything
she’s been through. This girl is a freaking super hero in her own right and I found myself admiring her
strength and refusal to give up, even if she’s a bit on the twisted side. Saying these characters are
complex is a gross understatement and I have never read a book where the characters had so many
freaking layers before. I found myself constantly being caught off guard by them and peeling back
another deeply twisted layer into their nature and I loved this!
The three main characters in this series are Caesar, Svetlana and Mateo and the lives of these
three are all intertwined in a deeply disturbing way that is only made even more disturbing through
some of the choices that they make. The word normal doesn’t even belong anywhere in the description
of these three and they only serve to further drive each other into the dark world they’ve managed to
create for themselves where madness is a stark reality. I loved everything about reading this series and
have never had any book succeed in disturbing me as deeply as these books have! There’s just
something about these books that makes them addictive and impossible to put down and I can’t wait for
my next fix! I highly recommend reading this to those who like to read stories that are completely
twisted and that will leave your head spinning long after reading them.