Name: Manik
ISBN: 9788366890077

Amo Jones

Manik

I'm Beatrice Kennedy, but everyone calls me Beat. I live a low-key life, fresh out of college and drifting from town to town until I find my home. I love music, and how it stirs even the deepest and untouched parts of your soul. Depending on what you choose to listen to, would depend on what it touches. It's the drug we all damper in, only different strains. My strain is Jazz. The smooth instrumental strums that take over me. The sound of cigar smoke, bourbon and an old dusty fedora hat. My strain wasn't rap, and it sure wasn't laced with some A-class shit like murky blue eyes casted down from the Lord and the Devil's handcrafted smile. I knew who he was--the whole world did. One fateful night set off a chain of events, events that no one was coming back from. You can't save people who don't want to be saved. You can't pull them up from the ocean when they've latched themselves to an anchor. Love was my anchor, destruction was the water that was drowning me, and the rope that was so tightly clamped around my ankles, was woven with the lyrics of Aeron Romanov-Reed, also known as, 'Manik. He steals hearts from all around the world, but one night, he stole something that wasn't his to steal. Me.

Cat Imb

I received an ARC of this book from the author and I voluntarily reviewed it. Thank you Amo Jones!

This book was different from what I expected. Different in the sense that there was a duality to it I did not see coming. A duality that both works and makes me twitchy. MANIK vs Aeron. Jekyll and Hyde in a sense. I was expecting a full-on dark rapper with dark rhymes and daemons eating at him. I mean there was some of that, but I craved more of it. It felt like it came second to his second life - to his family business. I wanted to bask in the darkness of MANIK's mind, and less in Ae's, if that makes any sense at all. I craved more darkness. I feel like his persona could have been pushed more.

There were definitely some cool elements in this book. I loves the characters. As always, Amo Jones creates some extremely lovable secondary characters. Lenny, and Kat being the best sassy and heart warming friends ever to Beat. Can I just say that character naming was ON FUCKING POINT? 

This book did NOT lack Amo Flair. Yes, I just decided that was a thing - start a hashtag people, let's start a movement. It had all the twists and turns of a Jones plot. As soon as you think you've figured it out, she throws you a curve-ball that will leave your head spinning and say to yourself: "What the fuckerdoodle did I just read" ← Do not judge the lingo, it'll catch on one day, I'm sure. It also had some beautiful lines, some that will make your heart race due to the intensity, and some that will make you swoon like a little girl over Prince Charming. Yes, I just called MANIK swoon worthy. I'll even go as far as say that he has his moments where he's a cutie. *looks over shoulder* don't tell him I said that *runs*. 

Anyways, I think Amo Jones' writing gets better with every book she writes. Her style develops and her flair intensifies #AmoFlair. I want to see her push the darkness more. I feel like she has it in her. She just needs to "let the devil in" *mic drop*

Actually, *picks mic back up again*, I also want to say that Amo Jones also tackles some heavy subjects in this book, and I'm proud of her for it. I'm proud she did it, and didn't beat around the bush about it. Now I'm done. *mic drop*