Arctic Absolution
I wasn't very convinced in the beginning but it goes from worse to better and I ended up loving it.
The main problem is the style of writing. There are times I wonder if the grammar is correct. I'm not native but some sentences still sound wrong. But that's nothing compared to the alternative POV in the same paragraph or even in the same sentence. The bi-POV annoyed me, I had to re-read parts because I wasn't sure which one of them is feeling this or that. The author even "cuts" scenes with no logic at all, because she doesn't change the POV, she just goes on with the bi-POV from the very same moment the cut it. It's as if the narrator almost works in a 1st POV but talking in 3rd person, and using both POV at the same time. It's weird.
This feeling is more present at the first third of the story. Then it becomes more "normal" and I could enjoy it.
The strong point of this love story are the characters and the isolation. We are apart of everything and everybody in a cabin in the woods, surrounded by cold and snow. I can't deny it's romantic. I have always liked the idea of two people in a place, alone.
I liked the MC a whole lot. They have their weak points and their strong ones and they are not the same ones. This means each one of them protects the other one's back. Their complementarity is complete and absolute. Dixon is a policeman but he has been abused by his partner when this guy should have appreciated and protected his submissive facet. Dixon can't face him, but Jaye can. Whereas Jaye's past is strangling him, Dixon pushes him above water. It's incredible how two people so hurt can save each other. Some of their actions are unforgivable in the real scheme of things (and I mean, not only breaking the law on purpose but with dubiously ethical methods and results), but witnessing their motivations and fears you can understand them, if not approve them.
There is a special atmosphere that surrounds everything is this story. Dixon and Jaye are not the same old pair. They are moved by different reasons: one wants to be a good person, one wants to make an exchange of favors. But from the very beginning you feel this is not how two normal guys first meet. They feel a pull towards each other and undeniable so, I could feel it. Even in that weird way of writing, I could feel it.
To sum it up, I liked the book pretty much. And now lots of snowy gifs because there is no better occasion than this one :D .
