“Even if a dog goes mad, it will always be a dog.”So said a small white sign hung on a wall in Birmingham Mental Institution Ward number 3. It had a black frame, written in a hand they were all well acquainted with. The letters had faded over time. In the end, among all the calligraphy in the frame, one could detect a blurred signature. It was mine.
John Wilcox is a young idler who loathes … is a young idler who loathes people except for young women. His destiny brought him near Birmingham Mental Institution during an earthquake. At that time Wilcox saves Elsie, an eccentric, half-deranged teenager. John pulls out every manipulation at his disposal to convince her that he is the right person to help her recover. Grey, Alessi’s father, goes on a quest for his lost daughter. She, too, like her mother, was trying to escape him. And so, began the tragic story between prey, and it’s supposed predator.
Wicked Girl is a psychological crime fiction spiced with erotic touch, where a sequence of accidents generates cold-blooded, and blood-curdling actions. It is a fascinating combination of romance, tension, and humor, unpredictable to the very end. Presented in a clear, straightforward way, yet its plot is packed with wit, action, and surprises grabbing the reader’s attention all the way to the last word.
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“Even if a dog goes mad, it will always be a dog.”
A simple yet complex story, with interesting plot details as well as character development. It has a profound mark of psychological behavior. Abuse, anti socialism, mental illness..A delusional protagonist, a frail teenager, the neighbours..a day by day society with an intricate perspective of how each of us intérprete good and evil, a strong mention of relative morality viewed from a different perspective each one of us has. Do we lose our humanity when we become deranged? A truly thought provoking story!
I don’t think this is a masterpiece or an original article about society. It is a fascinating story that is designed to challenge reading and give moments of pleasure to those who love this seam between crime, violence, horror, and a lot of dark psychology.
In that sense, well done.
This is quite an interesting book. I was shocked at the ending. It was very unusual but entertaining. I wasn’t sure of the plot exactly but I still enjoyed the book. I will be looking into more of this author’s works. The character’s were definitely unique.
Can you say about a book it is so terrible that you enjoyed every moment of reading it? This is precisely what happened to me with this one, and after I received another private recommendation, I reread it and discovered that the entire book had changed completely. The story comes to give us perspective and a view between good and evil and vice versa. The point is that the first time you read the book, you identify with the heroine and the second time, you find yourself identifying with the hero. And it is absurd that both are seemingly opposites. One is good, and the other is total evil.
It is a book that left a deep imprint on me.
It’s the most compassionate book I have ever read and the vicious of them all. This one is an intriguing combination of all excellent writing skills can provide an avid reader; Shutter Island, American Phsicho, The Shining and Mud Vain all mixed up into a controversial masterpiece.
This book is something completely different. I have never read a book like it, one that makes me throw it on the floor and walk on it until its heroes die and on the other hand, can not stop reading it. OMG, I went through a great jolt, and it’s just great.
I held back for a long time because I read this book first in Hebrew about a year ago and now also in English. Below you can read the review I published in Hebrew, translated, and it still fits what I feel like I just read this book for the first time:
I’ve been sitting for a few hours now to write this review. This is the third time that I delete and rewrite. The truth is that anyone who remembers me knows that things to say are not my weak side, in my world there has always been enough words for every moment, even that time in class when I lost my voice and Grandmother consoled and explained with a laugh that at least I did not lose my head.
But this time almost all my words were gone. Really. And I’ve been trying to find them, man, I’ve not seen them for a week. This book pecks at my cortex and does not let go, asks me to find words for it, words that will caress or reprove it. And I, what to do?
I lost all my words in front of a book so thin and small.
Yes, This book contains no more than 200 pages. It’s a fast read, and then you think about it and reread it until all the secrets and mines in it are discovered, and things get in your head. So you look in the mirror in the morning or the night after and suddenly you realize that nothing worked out, so you reread it.
On first reading, you find that there are skips between times and it is written in a very different way. In another interpretation, you realize that it is different from everything you’ve read so far, so even after a week of giving myself thought I was left empty of words and unable to shake it off.
And yet I want to extract a bit of review, so without damaging the content of the story. I will try.
Get it – John likes to take advantage of young women. He meets young Elsie at the time of a terrible earthquake. John takes her out of the rubble of a mental hospital and becomes a hero in his own eyes. During the rescue, he also meets an interesting old couple who will intervene in his life and especially in the life of the rescued Elsie. Sometime later, the girl’s father appears. The young man survived the great earthquake and is looking for her.
So all is well?
How would Grandmother use to say?
NO!
Hence the book becomes a horror show for mollusks like me. In each line, and each page has a discovery, an occurrence that turns the whole story and devours the cards and stomach. You will not pay attention, and you will not concentrate – you’re lost. Poor Elsie and cruel John or cruel Elsie and poor John. The father is a monster, or is he only a victim? And the dogs in the story and death and romance and cruelty and compassion…
So, how do you get out of it without going mad?
An excellent question if this is a question …
Until the last sentence in the book, you will only guess. You will not succeed, give yourself over to this book, let it take you for two and a half hours in another world with this extraordinary writer’s writing.
And one more word before I end, if you do not have the patience to start using your mind, do not start reading. It’s neither erotic nor novel or thriller. It can not work in the background. It’s something else. I do not know exactly what it is.
In short, this book recommended for women like me who are looking for a moment in life that the words will go away so suddenly. Let alone to enjoy that moment.
I just love this author’s writing. He’s got courage kicking his reader’s stomach mercilessly. Reading his books is like Marines basic training. The great thing awaits those readers who are brave enough to stay that they get a different reading experience than any other book. Although I don’t doubt that this one will get a lot of poor reviews (especially by readers who didn’t read the book to its end) I prefer to be one of the bravest and dare to write this is one of the best books I have read. Shocking, disturbing, wonderful!
I’ll start with the bottom line. It’s an excellent read.
At the beginning of the reading, I thought I had chosen the wrong book. First pages I had a hard time understanding the go-between the plot I was reading and the psychological thriller or crime I intended to read. But I was soon sucked into the plot, and from that moment I fell into every trap the writer put in front of me. The end of the book is no less than a genius.
4.5 Stars.
“She had the greenest eyes in the world, and they were so bloody bright! In those eyes, the world looked like the greenest grass ever watered by nightly dew and through which sunlight danced with a plethora of colors-such colors, which even the Good Lord gave rather sparingly.”
Where in the world could you meet such a beautiful girl, loved and described with such a passion? Well, I read about her in Olokita’s new thriller; Wicked girl, Yet, as for my question, according to the author’s perception, such a girl can only be found under the rubbles of a mental hospital.
Wicked girl is Olokita’s second book I read, and here, too, he holds no horses, producing an even more powerful and straightforward story than before. In this book, Olokita offers much more than imagination and ingenuity. He presents us with the twists of his soul, which only makes it more intriguing.
The main characters are Elsie, the girl described above, and John, a young man in his thirties who lives like an adolescent. Failing to find a job, and, actually, not even trying to find one, he lives with his parents after failing in his psychology studies and passes his time seducing teenage girls. One day, John and Nicole, one of his girlfriends, drive into the scene of an earthquake, which eventually kills Nicole. Once John gets out of his car, a stranger asks him to help search for survivors. There, under the rubbles, he meets Elsie, a young inmate of the collapsed hospital. From that moment on, his life rocked.
This book feels unsettling and eerie from start to finish, make you expect nasty surprises from around every corner. It doesn’t fall under any specific category. Instead, it is a fascinating blend of elements.
Olokita builds up all characters thoroughly, with a grand master’s sensitivity. Despite the quick tempo of events, with every character always surprising us at every step it takes.
Some sentences in this book belong in collections of great literary quotes, conveying profound messages. However, I chose not to quote them, fearing they lose all their quality once out of context.
It is undoubtedly an excellent choice for reading.
Wicked girl is not the kind of books which you can finish reading and soon move on to your next book. It leaves you breathless and speechless for hours. It is a psychological crime thriller which tells the stories of John Wilcox- a pedophile, Elsie- a resident of the Brmingham Mental Institution whom John saved after an eathquake, Grey- Elsie’s father and a few more characters. The story is not told chronologically but shifts from past to present and with each such shift new information is unfolded which turns upside down any anticipation you may have of how the story will continue. And indeed, the ending of the story is the most undredicable I have ever read.
I highly recommend this excellent book by I.V. Olokita. It is one of the best books I have ever read.
An earthquake was felt at Brmingham Mental Institution. When that happened, John Wilcox saved Elsie, a resident of the Institution. Is it love at first sight? Or something else?
Elsie’s father goes on a quest for his lost daughter. She, too, like her mother, was trying to escape him. And so, began the tragic story between prey, and it’s supposed predator.
Book Blurb: Wicked Girl is a psychological crime fiction, where a sequence of accidents generates cold-blooded, and blood-curdling actions. It is a fascinating combination of romance, tension, and humor, unpredictable to the very end. Presented in a clear, straightforward way, yet its plot is packed with wit, action, and surprises grabbing the reader’s attention all the way to the last word.
I can’t improve on the book blurb. It’s full of twists and turns and surprises around every corner. It’s a compelling read … totally unpredictable. The ending was unforseeable. remember … not everything you see and hear is true … or is it?
Many thanks to the author for the digital copy of this crime fiction. Opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.