Review: The taker by Alma Katsu

On the midnight shift at a hospital in rural Maine, Dr. Luke Findley is expecting another quiet evening of frostbite and the occasional domestic dispute. But the minute Lanore McIlvrae—Lanny—walks into his ER, she changes his life forever. A mysterious woman with a past and plenty of dark secrets, Lanny is unlike anyone Luke has ever met. He is inexplicably drawn to her . . . despite the fact that she is a murder suspect with a police escort. And as she begins to tell her story, a story of enduring love and consummate betrayal that transcends time and mortality, Luke finds himself utterly captivated.

Her impassioned account begins at the turn of the nineteenth century in the same small town of St. Andrew, Maine, back when it was a Puritan settlement. Consumed as a child by her love for the son of the town’s founder, Lanny will do anything to be with him forever. But the price she pays is steep—an immortal bond that chains her to a terrible fate for all eternity. And now, two centuries later, the key to her healing and her salvation lies with Dr. Luke Findley

I was expecting this book to be like any other sobrenatural book, but it's nothing like that. Of course, it has a lot of sobrenatural staff, but nothing like you could think about. Alma Katsu comes up with the darkest side of love and obessions. 

Lanny it's a girl who had been in love with Jonathan since her childhood. Despite the oposition of her family Lanny beomes Jonathan's best firend. Over the time, Jonathan seems to develop some feelings for Lanny and the consecuences of those feelings put her into a really bad situation. Forced by her father, Lanny must left to Boston and it's then when she meets Adair and his companios, a little group of morbid habits. By Adair's hands, Lanny find out a new whole world of dark pleasures. 

I must say that even though it's one of the most dark and evil character that I have ever met, I loved Adair. He's obscure, take pleasure from humiliation and pain, but seem to have some weakness for Lanny and sometimes can even be a little bit tender and kind. Maybe I loved Adair's character bucause I found Jonathan's character too perfect and annoying. He knows about Lanny love, but seems unable to reciprocate it and doesn't care hurting he. 

And now, Lanny. First I thought I was going to be inable to like her and her obsesion, but she makes a really big change along the book. One of the best things about The taker it's seing Lanny pass from a child obssesed with the perfect boy to bea woman secure of herself and able to face Adair's intentions. 

On my opinion, The taker isn't a book about love, but obsesion. It's about morbidness, jealousy, and showing up the most dark side of human soul. But even though, there's place to love although isn't the romantic, perfect, fairy tale love we could had been expecting.