October 20, 2025
"Antichrist" by Amo Jones
BLURB
Meraki Mallory lived two lives. The one that everyone thought she did, and the one she worked hard to hide. She burned with her demons instead of running from them, but when Niko Davis rode back into town with a bag full of secrets, she knew she would need to start hiding them instead. Niko knew her inside and out, and if he saw even a smidge of her soul, he would see that she was no longer the girl he left behind…
When the president of the New York chapter of the Seven Knights MC dies, he passes the gavel down to Niko… but unknown to anyone else, that’s not the only thing he left him.
Niko fights for what’s his, and he’s only ever claimed one person in his life—Meraki. So when he rips away the walls she built around herself with his bare teeth, the secrets that she has so fiercely hidden away all of these years suddenly bleed onto the four unmarked graves laid out in front of his steel-cap boots…
It started with a bond that destroyed everyone around them…
…it ends with blood.
MY OPINION
After long time I came back to Amo Jones.
„Antichrist” was a first book I saw after that break, so I took it to try, how Amo Jones writing is going.
And I have mixed feelings about this book.
In „Antichrist” we can meet Meraki and Niko. They are together in very toxic relationship. With sharing. Because Meraki has a boyfriend (who is also toxic), and Niko is using girls as he wants.
But in the end they are coming back to themselves to spend another hot, naked night. They are both antiheroes. So egoistic, toxic and totally unhinged. But in this craziness I liked them.
And it could be really good plot, toxic boyfriend who is using his girl without permission, another toxic guy who always wanted her, but she is with another one. Some spicy moments, some secrets. It can be really good, but it isn't. Why?
Because of the rest.
Amo Jones in „Antichrist” put everything. I mean everything. We have here mafia, some kind of assassin killer, MC club, secret society and maybe something else, but sorry I don't remember.
We have here a lot of useless things which don't have tight connection with our heroes.
What about the timeline in this book? I have no idea how many days passed, maybe months... in what period this plot has place. At these about three hundred pages we have a lot of things without coverage from the past.
Also I am not agree with the opinion that „Antichrist” is a dark romance. Nope. Nothing about that. One hard sex scene doesn't make a book dark romance. In my opinion „Antichrist” is much more like thriller with spicy moments. Dark thriller? I will never put this book to dark romance genre.
Am I disappointed? Little bit. As I said „Antichrist” could be a really nice book, if Jones rethought the plot and didn't put everything what she likes in this book. Or if she will extend this book to five hundred pages, or make it as trilogy. Then all these cult, asassins, MC, secret society and mafia could have any sense. In one book about three hundred pages all of it is just too much.