Name: With Visions of Red I
ISBN: 9781523871315

Trisha Wolfe

After a rapid string of grisly murders shakes the usually peaceful city of Arlington, Virginia, the sadistic killings of young women lull into a deceptive calm. Agent Sadie Bonds knows the terror isn't over; serial killers don't stop until caught. And this sadist has targeted the profiler, revealing pieces of her dark past and weaving her secrets into each gruesome crime scene. Is the killer someone from Sadie's past, her present?

Broken Bonds One

With Visions of Red I

Starting a book with one of my all time favorite quotes? Awesome. 

Stephanie 

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. When you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss gazes back into you.

Obsession can be our paramount joy; sweet, sweet love. 

It can also be our utter hatred. An ecstasy of sorrow.

“You’re so aware, attuned. To me.” She looks up then, ensnaring me with her eyes. “If I lose what fragile grip I have, I’ll fall. I’ve worked so hard to just be where I am now.”

Guys I‘m shook. A spicy book where the protagonists actually talk about consent, limits and safewords BEFORE they engage? 👏🏼

“This much contact was not part of our…agreement,” I say, noting the tremble in my voice. 

It didn’t help that I was a psych major. Who psychoanalyzed him, over and over, no matter how hard he tried to convince me I was worthy of love. 

It just never made sense to me back then. 

Criminal profiler Sadie Bonds knows blood. Her affair with the gruesome, dark world of killers began long before she started applying her analytical skills to investigate gory crime scenes. She gets inside the killers' heads, breaks them down, relates to them on an arcane level. She prefers it this way--because it's safer to ally herself with the villain than the victim. At least, that's how she's coped ever since she was abducted and tortured as a teen.

Broken Bonds, Book One

With Visions of Red

Mackenzie Turner

Very Intrigued

I’m so interested in this story! I’m glad that there’s more than just one book, off to start the next one!

The plot is not groundbreaking innovative and didn’t get me emotional attached but it also didn’t bore me. The behavior and actions of the FMC do not always make sense but I blame it on her backstory. Since it’s a series, I‘m okay with mediocrity and count that as a typical start before things take off. 

Perfect mediocre distraction.

Deranged profiler FMC ✔️

Kinky love interest ✔️

Creative serial killer ✔️

The plot is not groundbreaking innovative and didn’t get me emotional attached but it also didn’t bore me. The behavior and actions of the FMC do not always make sense but I blame it on her backstory. Since it’s a series, I‘m okay with mediocrity and count that as a typical start before things take off. 



With Visions of Red I Broken Bonds One