Sociopath by Lime Craven
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
The name’s Aeron Lore. And you are…? Such a pleasure to meet you, sweetheart. Is that a southern accent? Gorgeous.
Sociopath
You fucking bitch.
Why so surprised? I control a billion dollar fortune. I control the news. Give me five minutes and I’ll control you, too. If you could read my mind, you’d probably call me perverted. Unnatural. Manipulative. But I’ve learned to blend in, to be funny and charming. A predator in a designer suit.
I have no conscience. No shame in taking the things I want. And what I wanted was for Leontine Reeves to sell me her boutique tech firm so I could exploit the f**k out of it. Maybe exploit the f**k out of her, too, because desire haunts me in shades of scarlet, and I desire Leo most of all.
I never meant for this to be a love story. I fought it kicking and screaming, the same way Leo fought me. Now we’re bleeding into each other, making a mess. A chaos. There’s no control here. And what do monsters like me do when control leaves the building?
We attack.
Provocative and compelling story!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🤎🖤❤️💜
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌏🌍
Character development: 😠☺️😋😎🥰
The Hero: Aeron – he has known he was a sociopath since he was a child. He learned to fit in and as he grew up, he built a global news empire to rival the best of them. He is wealthy and has little morals and has his sights set on acquiring a tech company called SilentWitn3ss which is run by Leontine Reeves.
The heroine: Leo – she is a Harvard graduate who started SilentWitn3ss in her junior year. It is an up and coming tech firm which developed small wearable personal video camera’s that are able to upload product directly to services such as youTube. It is a platform that makes the everyman able to capture news in a new way which is why Aeron Lore wants it for his media empire.
The Story: Aeron is immediately attracted to Leontine and soon becomes obsessed with her. However, she has secrets of her own. Aeron has a large competitor he is trying to take down a notch and he also has someone wanting to write his unauthorized biography, so he has a lot going on in his business and in his life.
I love that this book is told from Aeron’s point of view and that we are getting a good look into his mind. He is a sociopath and is not able to love, but he is able to feel emotions about certain things, just selfish emotions and he goes after what he wants without any compunction or remorse. He definitely goes after Leo that way. She is attracted to him, but she knows what kind of person he is, so she fears him.
“You’d make an excellent sociopath. Just work on your cannibalism, or something.”
I pull myself to standing. “Right.”
“Or maybe psychopath. Cannibals are psychopaths, right?” she calls.
“There’s no difference.” I glance back, careful to catch her eye. “They just started using sociopath because too many professionals mistook psychopath to mean psychotic.”
I read this book about 5 years ago and at the time I really loved it. I thought it was hilarious how Aeron just did what he wanted no matter what. He was so deadpan about the fact that he did things that would be illegal and you could really see that he felt nothing about doing things that most people would consider to be wrong.
Aeron is a very likable character, even considering that he fakes his way through life so that people don’t figure out how much of a sociopath he really is. It’s his mind and his thoughts that are great and I love getting this peek into his motivations for the things he does. He has deviant sexual proclivities and he makes no bones about it.
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