Whatever two men can do, a woman can do it better....

 The cover of the book is amazing by the way, aside form the girl wielding a gun, which I do not really like, the surrounding environment and images was pretty cool.

“The early fry cook would find her, and probably not rape her.....”

When the first few pages of a book makes you laugh out loud, it can only mean two things....

Pitbulls are the softest, gentlest dogs in the world.... until they decide not to be.

So far, the self published authors have managed to hold their end, though I am not sure if I should categorize Sullivan as a self-published author, from what I hear, she has dabbled in the traditional route for quite some time. Anyways......

The characters in this book, BRIGHTWING, were real and developed. We have Lucy, a bold thief and a native American of some royal status, we have Edgar, who is also a thief, but is really bothered with his brother Mallory who is well..... kind of a retarded, messed up, trigger happy sociopath.... 

All I just need is a minute with this guy Mallory if Sullivan would permit, and he would be dead in a giffy..... yeah that's how much I hated him. And I think it is a good thing because for every character you fall in love with, there should be one you hate, one you feel sorry for, and one who is insignificant, and this author provided all of that.

The one thing that got me in this book is the fact that Edgar has spent his whole freaking life trying to defend the bastard of a brother Mallory, covering up for his mistakes, meanwhile deep down, he secretly wishes Mallory was dead but cannot just bring himself to kill him. I think that right there was reality at its fullest height. I found myself hating Edgar for this, but Sullivan Lee quickly gave an explanation on why Edgar hadn't put two shiny ones in the sucker's head. He made a promise to their mother.

The female protagonist was kick ass. Lucy is determined, she is smart and almost always accomplishes whatever she sets her mind to do. I loved how she ended up with the two brothers when they kidnapped her, but I did not like the idea of Lucy falling for Edgar, I felt he was lily-livered and was too much of a coward for Lucy to have fallen for him.

Sullivan Lee let her characters guide her if that makes any sense. One minute the motivations of the characters are established, and the next, they do something else and you're like SERIOUSLY!

Then there's the Tequesta tribe, Lucy's native tribe. The way Sullivan interwove the legend was nicely done. Another highlight of this book was how slowly Edgar realized that their hostage, Lucy, was a lot more crime-oriented than they were.

That being said. I would like to pin point the annoying, eye-raising, mind-beating, and energy-sapping points in this book.

There comes a time when meticulous can become annoying. Sullivan gave us every little detail to the point that I started having headaches. I also felt that Lucy should have escaped from her captors since she was given enough opportunities.

Generally speaking though, I honestly think that this is not a book strong enough to evoke an emotion such as to make you really hate it, or really love it. It was an in-betweener for me. 

The plot was really unique without trying too hard to be, in the sense that all the characters were bad, so you had to side for which of them was worse than the other.

On a side note, Lucy of BRIGHTWING and Aloysia of THE SEPTAVALENT STONE is what, Bella, Nora and Lucshka could have been if they were in the same age brackets. Yeah Lucy was falling in love with Edgar but not for once did she forget her initial goal and dream.

I would definitely be picking another book from this author. I only hope she can dull down her details because I really can't be going to the pharmacy to get a packet of Aspirin each time I want to read a book by Sullivan Lee.