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Scarla
Scarla Fragran shook the world. The youngest female kickboxing champion in history, she came from nowhere to become the brightest young star with the most promising future. Until it all died, along with the man she loved and the only life she'd ever known. Now, she hunts and kills, preying on the predators that cost her more than she ever thought she could lose. Working as an undercover prostitute for the police, she walks the night as bait. Her only lifeline is a man she hardly knows, but Facil LeTour is the only thing standing between Scarla and the jaws of death. Every night is a roll of the dice. She has nothing left to live for, but a million ways to die.
160 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2010
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October 9, 2011
Definitely not a book for the meek. Sex, death, monsters.. this story was fast paced from the first page until the last. Erotic in a twisted way. I only wish there was more story line that explained how the virus came about and what exactly it does or why it was developed. Maybe a second book? A good read for those who want action on every page!
April 24, 2012
Scarla is a raw, gory, sexy, surreal, boundary-pushing novella. But what I enjoyed best was how Furtney wasted not a single word. He is the antithesis of flowery and superfluous. Moving from the first word to the last word was as smooth and fast as a whiskey and Coke on a Saturday night. It's a guilty pleasure and not for the kiddies.
December 23, 2011
This is a book written for those who truly enjoy being entertained by stories--it's a shear bloody good time. Having this novella with the kindle app on my phone earned me my first write up at work and that still didn't stop me from reading it. This is an addictive story. I had to know what happened next...
A Hard Boiled Detective style story--with just enough modern nuances are to bring splash of today-color into the noir of the piece--chock full of, bloody violence, drinking, swearing, hot sweaty sex, drugs, death and finding the balance between good and evil.
I learned the characters as we went along, building up, pulling toward, backing away from, and then running headlong back in to my relationship with them as I got to know them and my feelings about them would change.
Visually written, it never lost my attention. It constantly spread-out and took up more space, like a puddle expanding on the floor--at times with an eerie unsettling constant drip that made the hair on my arms stand up--and other times with a bloodcurdling tidal rush leaving me gasping for breath.
It is intelligent, gritty, raw, violent and real--even in its most surreal.
A Hard Boiled Detective style story--with just enough modern nuances are to bring splash of today-color into the noir of the piece--chock full of, bloody violence, drinking, swearing, hot sweaty sex, drugs, death and finding the balance between good and evil.
I learned the characters as we went along, building up, pulling toward, backing away from, and then running headlong back in to my relationship with them as I got to know them and my feelings about them would change.
Visually written, it never lost my attention. It constantly spread-out and took up more space, like a puddle expanding on the floor--at times with an eerie unsettling constant drip that made the hair on my arms stand up--and other times with a bloodcurdling tidal rush leaving me gasping for breath.
It is intelligent, gritty, raw, violent and real--even in its most surreal.
April 29, 2012
*I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads. Thanks to Comet Press for listing this giveaway!*
At first I thought this book was very intriguing. I easily feel into it and wanted to read more. It was very graphic, but I knew going into it that this kind of book is graphic. However, by the time I was about 3/4 of the way through the book, it dawned on me that I was not going to get any more background information than I already had. This left me feeling confussed, not being able to grasp the reasoning behind the events and also not feeling like the book was a possible scenario. I love when no matter how crazy a book's ideas are, you feel like it could possibly happen one day. This book did not make me feel like that and it wasn't because of the events that took place, but because of how the people in the book, main characters and random extras alike, reacted throughout the whole story. I started out really liking the story but by the end, I felt like I had wasted my time reading it.
At first I thought this book was very intriguing. I easily feel into it and wanted to read more. It was very graphic, but I knew going into it that this kind of book is graphic. However, by the time I was about 3/4 of the way through the book, it dawned on me that I was not going to get any more background information than I already had. This left me feeling confussed, not being able to grasp the reasoning behind the events and also not feeling like the book was a possible scenario. I love when no matter how crazy a book's ideas are, you feel like it could possibly happen one day. This book did not make me feel like that and it wasn't because of the events that took place, but because of how the people in the book, main characters and random extras alike, reacted throughout the whole story. I started out really liking the story but by the end, I felt like I had wasted my time reading it.
July 18, 2013
This is harsh. This is nasty. This is not for everyone. This book is the ugly equivalent of a B-movie you found on cable at about 3:00 AM, broadcasting from Videodrome, which means Pittsburgh if you were paying attention. My biggest complaint is the main character didn't say much. I was starving for explanations, too, meaning when the requisite bad lab military types showed up, I hung on their every word. But there is real emotion between her and her trainer. So if you're the kind of person who likes your books hopeful and pretty and cradling a sense of good taste and responsibility, don't bother, but you can find plenty of that elsewhere. Tune in here if you want to learn a bit about people with three kinds of teeth and see how much of the Cronenbergian body horror climax ('70s version of Cronenberg, not the later, more hopeful incarnation) you can stomach. I read the end through my teeth.
May 30, 2015
Firsty I did not ever think would rate this 5 stars when i choose to read it but I really really liked this book.
The charatcters were all very interesting and I enjoyed getting to know them.
It went right into the storyline and had me gripped from the first chapter. I did not get bored at all reading this. Entertainment at every corner.
It was a very strange concept for a story, I had never read anything quite like it before. As unbelieveable as the story was it was a pleasure to read and I was not put off by the madness.
Plenty of descriptive sex and violence throughout.
I also liked the fact that there was no explaination to the things that were going on, they just were. The only bit i didn't like was the ending it just got a bit extreme.
The charatcters were all very interesting and I enjoyed getting to know them.
It went right into the storyline and had me gripped from the first chapter. I did not get bored at all reading this. Entertainment at every corner.
It was a very strange concept for a story, I had never read anything quite like it before. As unbelieveable as the story was it was a pleasure to read and I was not put off by the madness.
Plenty of descriptive sex and violence throughout.
I also liked the fact that there was no explaination to the things that were going on, they just were. The only bit i didn't like was the ending it just got a bit extreme.
August 23, 2012
Wow. That book SUCKED. I can't fathom how so many people rated it highly. I guess crazy sex and super gore warrants high ratings even if it's written horribly? Not for me. Thank God it was short.
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April 30, 2012
Loved the book.......blood, guts and sex all wrapped up in a direct, to the point book!
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