Dirty Psychopath by Celia Crown
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
“It should hurt, little girl. Being with me will always hurt.”
Dirty Psychopath
I don’t know him, I have never spoken to him, and I have never seen before.
He’s a man wrapped in inky patterns, armed with scarred knuckles, and donned with selfish obsessiveness.
One look and I’m his; I’m his favorite victim.
I shouldn’t have these complicated feelings in my stomach when I’m near him, but his presence had proven to be poisoning—far too late to stop the spread of the compulsive submissiveness that he commands of me.
“John Doe” is his identity; he’s nothing, but everything at the same time.
WARNING: This contains sensitive material that will be triggering to some, reader discretion is advised. Emotional Manipulation, Stockholm Syndrome, and Graphic Violence.
I just adore a psychopath in love!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🤎🖤❤️💜
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎🌍
Character development: 😍😚😉🙂🥰
The heroine: Jessie – she is a volunteer at the insane asylum, her tasks usually have to do with cleaning, putting clean laundry in the rooms and things like that, though she does like to help the patients when she can. She is teaching one of them to play chess. She has heard the rumors about John Doe and knows some of the nurses have crushes on him though they would never act on those crushes since he is so dangerous.
The Hero: John Doe – he has been stuck in an insane asylum for five years after the courts decided he was criminally insane. He hasn’t spoken in the time he has been there which frustrates his psychiatrist to no end. Not because he can’t speak, but because he has nothing to say to anyone there. He is a big, muscular mountain of a man and is usually flanked by two guards in case he acts out, but could easily bash both of their skulls in if he wanted to. Though in the years he has been there he has never been violent.
The Story: When Jessie first sees John, he does nothing but stare at her, which makes her quite nervous. So much so that she looks down in a submissive way that intrigues him all the more. When the doctor notices more alertness in John than ever before, she thinks Jessie might be the key to getting John to open up. Her main focus is to use John as a case study to further her career and she will do whatever she has to in order to make that happen.
I picked this book because I love when the Hero (or anti-Hero) is a psychopath or sociopath who falls for the heroine. It is a short read (96 pages), which I dislike but I thought I would give it a try anyway, because I wanted to take a break from audiobooks and actually read some for a change. I like audiobooks because you can multi-task when listening, but sometimes it is so nice to just relax and do nothing but read and I really liked this one from the start. I just loved a man obsessed like this:
“There was nothing special when I first saw her, no spark of desire to reach for her. But a small seed of yearning for her grew in me until it became almost overwhelming.”
“Nothing brings more satisfaction than knowing she is frightened of me.”
“Five years of silence, and I am not going to talk just because she has my pretty girl in the room. I usually block out her voice and just stare into thin air during these useless sessions, but I can’t tune her out with that girl sitting here today.”
“I want to learn what makes her tick, what she likes, and how she reacts to certain things.”
“She wants to get away and put as much distance between us as possible. It’s endearing that she thinks this is going to be the last time she sees me.”
“Jessie gives me a nervous smile when she mumbles a greeting. I concentrate on her voice, the prettiest thing I have ever heard. Her voice is on the soft side, and the tone stirs something dark in my heart.”
“Contrary to popular belief, despite being diagnosed as criminally insane, I know what is right and what is wrong. I just don’t care. I understand what I’m doing; I just don’t feel remorse.
A psychotic sociopath.”
I thought I wouldn’t like this one so much because it was so short, but so much happened in it and it was done so well, that I couldn’t have asked for more in a longer book. This was my favorite book so far this year. I just adore a psychopath in love!
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