Trisha Wolfe

PI Makenna Davies is hired to find evidence of a cheating husband when she is taken from a warehouse and trapped behind a cellar door by Luke Easton, the monster that murdered Hudson, her partner and lover. However, the truth isn't that simple, and the longer Makenna remains captive, the more she questions the facts that she has always believed to be true. Instead of killing Makenna, Luke recognizes in her, a tortured soul just like his own and begins to wonder if the truth might set them both free.

Cellar Door is difficult to classify. It might be described as a dark romance, but I'm not sure if it is a romance at all. It is more of a tragic story of two damaged souls who will never find peace or happiness. There is flowery prose and vague information woven into graphic, on-page violence that can be difficult to read. The plot is thin and at times, hard to follow, as the characters and their suffering take center stage. Overall, I cannot recommend this disturbing tale and would warn romance readers away from this novel.… (mehr)

Like my sister I really disliked the ending. What got me more was a certain lack of grace to the writing. The beginning felt rigid and overly short for the amount of emotion it was trying to convey. The ending fell flat as well since I honestly did not care about the truth of the world.



I didn't realize until about halfway through the book that this is not only the author of a short story I didn't enjoy that greatly (Unveiled), but also that the short story tied into this series.

Well color me shocked.

Many of the reasons I didn't enjoy Unveiled were only exacerbated in this book. I felt so little connection to any of the characters. Wolfe builds a sort of shallow emotional bridge in the first few chapters--Zara's father being taken, being forced to live at the castle, watching someone be tortured--that felt more off putting then relatable. Then there's Devlan who was your basic run of the mill tortured sort with a deeper agenda. And Sebastian who swung from pretty okay hapless sort to malevolent creeper with very little transition between.

There was very little subtlety. The synopsis makes it seems as if Zara has this big decision to make, but really its not for her. She's pretty firmly decided on her course of action (after Devlan makes it clear her original plan to escape is at best suicidal) and the few token moments of 'Maybe this could work' are unconvincing. When the Rebels finally enter her realm of possibilities the outcome was inevitable.… (mehr)