Book Review: Beautiful Rage: The Break of Dawn

Check out the book review author Monique Mensah wrote for my book Beautiful Rage: The Break of Dawn:

Beautiful Rage: The Break of Dawn is a twisted tale of maniacal revenge. The third installment in the Prison Chronicles series explores the tragic, but triumphant tale of Dawn Langston. Reporter, Vanessa Jackson, gives Dawn the rare opportunity to tell her side of the story, granting her the gift of redemption and giving her a voice she otherwise may have never been afforded.

When Dawn’s sister is kidnapped and brutally murdered by a heartless and narcissistic drug dealer, Dawn becomes obsessed with redemption. Following the adage, “Revenge is a dish better served cold,” she sets out to execute a convoluted, diabolical plan to make her sister’s killer pay with more than just his life. Keeping her plan a secret is a hefty duty that becomes even more complicated when the detective who worked her sister’s case becomes a love interest and a dangerous distraction. Dawn is continuously faced with the task of setting her morals and personal life aside in order to wreak havoc on the one man that took the most important person from her life and tore her family to pieces.

With Beautiful Rage: The Break of Dawn, author Janaya Black plunges readers into the dark and sinister mind of a woman gone mad with rage. There is no time to catch your breath as each scene is depicted with a straight forward and no nonsense illustration that keeps you turning the pages until the inevitable is finally revealed. In engaging myself in this quick and entertaining read, I found that I was questioning my own morals and feeling a tinge of guilt for rooting Dawn on during her sadistic conquest. We would all like to believe that we wouldn’t do something as heinous as taking the law into our own hands, but there is a thin line between raging anger and insanity.

This book will leave you with the question, “What would you do avenge the death of the person you love the most?” This book is not for the faint of heart as I found some parts a little difficult to swallow. But I was just too enthralled to turn away. If you’re looking for a fast-paced, hard-hitting adrenaline rush, you’ve found it with Beautiful Rage: The Break of Dawn. Check it out, but only if you think you can handle it.


This review was provided by:
Monique D. Mensah
Author of INSIDE RAIN and WHO IS HE TO YOU

Book Review: Inside Rain

Every now and again I come across a book that lets me know that there are writer's in this world who are just as "touched" as I am when it comes to the stories they choose to tell, and I can honestly say that author Monique D. Mensah is definitely my kind of writer!
Her latest book, Inside Rain, is the gripping tale of Rain, a young girl who witnesses the brutal murder of her mother at a very young age and struggles to cope with that reality as an adult.

In the beginning you are introduced to Rain's remaining family: Her grandmother, who is the center of her world; her brother Danny who is a self-centered womanizer who resents Rain's weak character; and her sister Carmen who is a promiscuous drug-whore, who would love nothing more than for her sister to simply disappear.

As the story unfolds, the reader is taken on an intimate journey into the lives of each sibling to see how the gruesome death of their mother has affected their lives. And with the turn of every page, Mensah skillfully plunges the reader into a psychological thrill ride that will have you backtracking just to rediscover what you may have missed the first time around.

What I really loved about this book was that from the beginning it grabs and holds your attention with a vise-like grip. Each chapter is filled with fast paced drama that will have you staying up until all hours of the night trying to figure out how it all ends.

After reading Mensah's first book, Who Is He to You, I was already a fan, but now after reading Inside Rain I can honestly say that this author is definitely someone that I see in my regular reading rotation.

All-in-all I give Inside Rain an enthusiastic 10 spirit fingers and encourage you to definitely make it a must have for your holiday reading list. Great job Ms. Mensah and keep writing.

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