Lou Randall was not a monster. He was just a fourteen-year-old runaway, escaping his abusive mother. But he saw the body lying in the water, not moving. He had been in the fight and, seeing that unsettling grin, realized he helped the wrong guy.
Wyatt Morgan was a monster. He also understood that the world was full of monsters, and that breaking the law was often necessary to survive. But when he took the vulnerable and naïve runaway Lou under his wing, something inside Wyatt changed.
Despite the labels of their pasts, something good was kindling between them and the only way to protect it was to either fight or run. Pursued by everyday villains masquerading as heroes and ensnared by the web of organized crime, Lou and Wyatt must fight through grueling and horrific ordeals to stay together and obtain the ever-illusive right of freedom.
Well, I'm definitely choosing the wrong (or right?) books at the moment ... at least every second ending (at least it feels like that often...) just breaks my heart. Some even rip it rght out of my chest....
This book was unconventional in pretty much every way. It's not your typical story. Lou isn't your typical teenager and Wyatt isn't either.
This book made me care about a serial killer and made me wish they had just gone on like before. It made me cry for that serial killer. For Lou and for Wyatt. For Gunner and Seth and everyone who wasn't konventionally good or even who was, but was dealt a hand in life that no one actually deserves.
In another life, another situation, under different circumstances ... well...