The female lead, Scarlett, while certainly being taken advantage of on all sides, is not a perfect soul led to a dark world simply by being born with the wrong last name. That said, there’s a unique twist to the opening novel that may entice dark romance veterans. If you take any new character wholly at their first impression, you’re doing yourself a disservice. The kinds of people that if you met them in real life would probably make you ill with contempt, but such is the point when beginning a new series from this author. London men in suits self-reporting as “Gods of the Financial Industry” with yet to be justified antics of pure greed and manipulation is meant to entice an emotion. The pure narcissism to an “American Psycho” level at the beginning when meeting these men is hard to swallow, and I have to feel that it’s by design. Achieving their fortune with a ruthlessness that would make the most cruel of 19th century robber barons blush, there’s literally blood on their hands as they seek not only wealth, but to right their most severe of wrongs. The handsome alphas de jour are a quartet of wildly successful financial gurus known as the Four Horseman.
Carnage, Book One of the brand new Four Horsemen series from Sarah Bailey brings a fresh look to the seedy underbelly of London hiding in plain sight, contained within its most beautiful and accomplished people.
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