The Nora Theory

From the evil genius that brought us one of the darkest of the dark romances, Haunting Adeline, comes a spin-off, Where’s Molly by H.D. Carlton. Readers first met Molly in the Cat and Mouse duet, and her story is a contemporary dark romance that is satisfying for anyone who was waiting for Molly’s happy ending.

When the book opens, we find that after her miraculous escape from human traffickers, Molly has built a life for herself living in rural Montana and feeding pedophiles to her pigs. This is what I’m going to tell people I’m doing the next time someone asks about my career or tells me to get a real job.

Nine years before, she had a one-night-stand with Cage a hunky man with a talent for making people disappear. He comes back into her life through the organization they both work for, dedicated to ridding the world of rapists and pedophiles, and is determined to never let her get away again.

Right away this story is filled with the darkness that is H.D. Carlton’s signature. Molly has been through hell and back, and readers will see that. There is not as much horrific on the page trauma as Haunting Adeline, the second book in the Cat and Mouse duet, but it is most certainly still there.

Where’s Molly has dual POVs and flashbacks, and isn’t as spicy as its predecessors. There’s breath play, blood play, degradation, but somehow even with all these things this was nowhere near as spicy as I was expecting, but solidly sordid nonetheless.

This is technically a standalone, but this book will definitely be a better experience if you’ve read Haunting Adeline and Hunting Adeline first.

Where’s Molly is short and to the point, and a fun read for the bookish girlies that like more than a little violence and angst with their romance.

Spice: 3

Writing: 3.5

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