Submit has all the power to wreck you, and I enjoyed every moment of it. Though more bitter than sweet, the light that comes through all the darkness can be enough to make your chest tighten in the most wonderful of ways.

Like Lana Sky's other characters, Frankie and Maxim are complicated people with deep scars. They're not heroes and they're not the kind of characters you blindly root for because of their goodness or noble deeds. Instead, they're people corrupted by and sacrificed to their environments, and their pasts are far from a backstory.

Submit isn't a book I read passively: I held on for dear life as the characters dragged me through it, leaving me breathless and desperate for the next installment.