I captured the guilty.Locked them inside our prison. Tortured their bodies and abused their minds.I had murdered hundreds. Never recognized one.Until her face.Until that scream.I was hired to take her life.But first, I had to figure out how she ruined mine.Animal is the first book in the Prisoned Spinoff Duet. Monster is the second book.*WARNING*Animal is an extremely dark novel. There are strong … book.
*WARNING*
Animal is an extremely dark novel. There are strong sexual themes, drug usage, physical abuse and torture that could trigger and/or cause emotional suffering. You have been warned.
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Well my goodness…I am sitting here with my mouth wide open. I mean that WTF just happened here kind of look… Let me tell you, read this book slowly and devour each word. There is a reason…trust me!
While Marni Mann knocked my socks off with Prisoned, (not really…because no way will I walk around without socks on…for fear of the babies, but you know what I mean….) this book took it to the next level of messing with your head!
Beard…he’s just battling with demons, that’s all. But to settle him down, just scream. Seriously…what woman doesn’t want a bearded man to make her scream? Hey, whatever works for him. But beneath the screams, he has a story to tell and what a ride it is! Buckle up and enjoy!
Tyler-Tye, just an innocent freshman at college who is glad to be away from her family. Which appropriately named her Tyler because she should have been born a boy. Keeping her nose stuck in her schoolwork is what her goal is, never wanting to return home.
This is like a ‘bogo’ (buy one get one) book. Two stories told…with a twist that just about sent me to the ER due to whiplash. Whoa…. where did that come from…. Buckle down and enjoy the ride!!! It’s a good one!
Although this is a standalone, In my opinion…you would get a total enjoyment if you’ve read Prisoned beforehand. This is a spin-off from Prisoned and I suspect there will be more to come!!!
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5 twisted as shit stars!!! Omg what did I just read?!!!
This is book one of the “Animal” series and it can be read as a stand alone but with that being said I am rushing right back to my kindle to start book2!!
I don’t have anything to say about the book. I don’t want to give away not one thing. Read the blurb and just jump in!!
“Prison fairs, captor, torturer-I had many titles. They all meant the same thing; I lived in the dark.”
This book is crazy good. It is dark and twisted as fuck so be prepared. At first I was like wtf am I reading and then I was a twisted bitch dying for more!! It was like bombshell after bombshell. The end of the book had me all types of messed up. I still am like wtf!! I can’t wait to finish this review just so I can’t start “Animal” and find out wth went down.
The author is like a magician with words. I had a feeling about a few things but shit there was so much more. Beard is Animal. He is sexy, jaded, dominating and just so damn perfect.
There are so many pieces to this puzzle and every piece is complicated. I am so curious about so many pieces of the puzzle. This author has fucked my mind seven ways to Sunday. I am in love with her and must now buy all of her books.
Just trust me if you like dark, hot, crazy and fucked up this is the book for you!! Shit this is one of the best books I have ever read!! Buy it now!!
‘WTF’ have I just read, I haven’t seen this author before so I was going in without any prior knowledge and WHAT a find, I picked up this for a dark read after over dosing on Romance, boy did I pick a good one, but how do I give a review with out giving the plot away. or spoilers.
The book is amazing, I didn’t know if I was on my head my hands or my a**, It drew me in from the first, I balked a bit when the words tortured, where mentioned. yes there is a lot of it, but damn it was also hot as hell, those sex scenes my god I got hot under the collar. Marni Mann I might never have read a book by you before but that will be rectified immediately, I don’t know what the Prisoned off series is, but will find out, I already bought Monster.
That ending blew me out of the water, was not expecting that at all !!!!!!
Tyler I loved, Mina I felt was more to her than met the eye. It’s why I gave it four stars instead of 5, I needed to know more about Mina, but assuming that book 2 will answer the questions. I hope.
I highly recommend this book, but if you do pick it up, don’t be expecting flowers and unicorns cos u won’t get that AT ALL
WTF!?!?!?!
What the ever loving f@ck just happened!?!?!?
I seriously am so lost. Throughout the whole book you try piecing together random bits of information. If you are like me you were able to figure some of it out, but I guarantee at least one piece of information will blow your f@cking mind!
Well written and mind twistingly entertaining, Animal will keep you on edge with the suspense, the erotic fun, and the need for more screams.
I’m not sure who is more messed up in the head, Marni Mann for writing it or me for loving the hell out of it.
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Holy wow, this book gripped me from page one and kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. I don’t even know what to say. All I can tell you is that Marni Mann has put together one helluva series. Jae and Tyler’s story is agonizing and tragic from the very start. Star crossed lovers with so many obstacles ahead of them. And Beard, my God! That man is sick and twisted, and yet absolutely intriguing. He had me wrapped around his little finger the entire time.
Marni has definitely done a wonderful job storyline, characters, hauntingly dark romance, wow! This is a must read for my dark romance lovers. Monster is definitely next for me.
So here is “Animal” in all its glory.
Where do I start with this so very different story. well here goes,
Beard is running an illegal prison in Venezuela with his two best friends.
It’s A place where they torture and kill, not just for the money involved, but also for the kicks too.
Beard himself has an obsession with the screams, he loves to listen to the cries of the tortured and the damned, it’s just his thing.
So as you have probably surmised from the above “Animal” is an extremely dark tale and you should probably be aware that the descriptions in this are very graphic and detailed.
So the majority of this tale we get to follow Beard around and experience his very graphic sex life.
I should also mention that there’s a lot of girl on girl action, some menage scenes and also some drug use as well, just in case this bothers you.
The sex itself is also very down and dirty in language as well as detail and while this itself didn’t bother me, the sheer amount of it did.
This is where Animal lost a star for me, I felt there was too much and I just didn’t enjoy some of the encounters here, they felt a trifle off to me.
I actually in hindsight realised why I felt this way, It was quite obvious to me once I’d made the connection.
Surprisingly the prison itself didn’t affect me that much, not because I don’t have a heart and lack the ability to empathise, Just more because I tried to not visualise what was occurring there, I buried my head in the sand, so to speak, out of sight, out of mind and all that jetsam.
You Know, LA LA LA LA LA Fingers in ears that kind of stuff.
I am actually pretty much unshockable anyway as it takes a lot to disturb me and mess with my head. Probably the side effect of reading so much depravity.
So moving on , the other person’s head we get to play inside is a young college girl by the name of Tyler.
Ignored and taken for granted by her family, makes Tyler extremely vulnerable in her need for acceptance and love.
she is Easily Recruited by the Achurdy and her choices in life lead her down a dark path with only one end seemingly in her sights.
we are given a little taster of Tyler’s utter despair in life and also in her death.
A snapshot into her head if you will.
So, What did I just read? And How darn Clever Was this folks? A Slow Stunned Clap from me, I’m so very impressed Marni, you rock girl.
Animal by Marni Mann was a complete an utter twisted-mind F@ck.
I know I had a slightly bemused expression on my face throughout.
And I was also, in a state of utter confusion for the majority of this story.
and Just when I thought I was getting somewhere, It was like BAM!!! here’s another curve-ball for you, we don’t want you getting too complacent girl.
With the final curtain closing on what was a massive Reveal, my first thought after the initial shock was, Ah, I get it now, everything kinda makes sense in a weird sort of freaky arse way.
Marni Mann after keeping me in a state of compete and utter perplexity throughout all of “Animal” has somehow managed to wrap this all up so prettily
Gathering together all the stray threads of this story and weaving them into a sort of gruesome testimony.
At least that’s what I thought until Animal threw another DUH!!! moment at me, (I’m rolling my eyes here people.)
I knew it was to good to be true,
Back to trying to find my way out of the dark, sigh.
Animal is like being lost in a maze with no exit anywhere at all.
So where were we, 0h yes, I guess this story hasn’t quite finished unfolding yet. I for one can’t wait till act two commences.
So just a footnote,
I originally after finishing “Animal” rated this a three and a half.
I decided to sleep on it before I put pen to paper
As I could not get this out of my head, and for that reason alone I’ve upped this to a four, as this is not a read I will forget in a hurry and it doesn’t really matter if that’s for the right or the wrong reasons it’s stuck in my head now so it’ a definite score.
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WHOA!
Ok so I was confused for like the first 82% of this book. While I enjoyed it, I just couldn’t piece it together and then BAM!!!! A good/great BAM! but then WHOA again and I need more. Like really how can it end like THAT?????? So many more questions.
I will not really review this so as not to give it away/spoil. But you need to read this book.
Ok….What The Hell happened !!??
Did my jaw drop or the Earth was yanked from under my feet ?!?!
Because I can’t believe what I just closed the book on !
Wow….just WOW….W.O.W! I mean I thought I had figured out the story at some points , but Marni said – NO , I’ve got to flip the story one more time ! It’s most complex piece of writing which does the whole Topsy turvy , defying gravity, stunts .
It starts with Tyler , a girl who’s going through normal teenage angst ( she’s 18) and she’s insecure , feeling misunderstood and neglected by her family , and omg-no one-understands-me kind of a phase in life , when along comes a predator. She’s a recruiter of sorts, and lures naive Tyler away with promises of Riches and excesses. But as always it comes with a hefty price .Tyler is recruited for a nefarious company, it indulges in con games and thereforth begins her downward spiral , till she has nothing left.
There’s a parallel story of Beard . He’s a Prison Guard in Venezuela. Only his prison is very private , very violent. He’s the guard and the executioner. Who gets jailed and why is not in his hands , but who gets what punishment and is killed how, is in his hands. And in the hands of his two buddies – Shank & Diego. They three are sadistic to a fault. Cruel and extreme in meting out most violent and heinous deaths to the inmates.
Both the stories run side by side, till they clash. The ensuing explosion is akin to an atom-splitting intensity.
And then comes the punches.
One..two..three…pow, pow, pow !
I fall down from my bed, throw the Kindle at the wall and am sitting on the floor, completely flabbergasted !
It’s very difficult to figure out who’s the actual Animal. It keeps changing form , till you realize what is the true meaning of Animal .
What a thrilling ride, what a fantastic story.
Must read, but buy a back up Kindle, cause yours will end up on the wall – broken !!!
The writing is very taut and thrilling, characters are very black and white, good and bads are separated clearly, no heart changes or turnabouts. The language is very slick and the blind corners will leave you reeling . Heart thumping pace, hot F/F sex , the sex scenes are written so well, I actually pictured them live !!
Excellent work Marni, super awesome story !
OMG!
It took me half the book before I started to suspect how Beard and Tyler came into each other’s lives. While Beard’s story is told in the present, Tyler’s is told 4-5 years in the past.
It’s confusing and heartbreaking to watch them fall for and sleep with other people when you know that eventually they have to be the ones to get together. The ending is full of surprises that you could never guess and jaw dropping revelations. It’s both a jump for joy and omg how could it be tearjerker ending.
4.5 ‘WTF’ stars
If you read the blurb, you can’t really figure out what to expect. After I read Prisoned and met Beard, the main character of this book, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on his book. As soon as I got Animal, I knew some really dark and twisted things would go down. I love dark books with villains as main characters. And Beard fit that bill perfectly. In my opinion he isn’t a good guy, but there are things that made him the way he is. The structure of this book was different, normally it wouldn’t have worked for me but for this book it was perfect. It left you with question marks almost throughout the whole book. I had no idea what was going on in the beginning, however I am a pretty good predictor/investigator of secrets in books. So half-way through I had some theories and a couple of them were correct.
However Marni wouldn’t be Marni if she didn’t throw a couple of plot twists the readers way. There was so much dark and twisted things going on but there was also a lot of hot and dirty sex. The author did an amazing job with the characters. She made me feel a certain way about them, which made perfect sense at the end. There are two stories in one book but they are connected, and it is up to you to figure out what is going on. It was very creative and mysterious and I couldn’t get enough. I was hooked from the start and I couldn’t wait till I received the answers to all my questions. Marni has one crazy and twisted mind!! This book is NOT for the faint-hearted. If you want a good mind-fuck where nothing is as it seems then definitely read this book. Especially the ending had me saying WTF and OMG, Marni really knows how to end a book.
Loved the plot twist. Great book. Highly recommend.
This is a very dark book. Not my cup of tea. There is a follow on book. Doubt I will read it.
The only thing I didn’t like about the book is I didn’t understand the very last revelation. How? Why?