Warning: This is War, Baby is a dark romance. A really dark one. So dark you’re going to wish you had a flashlight to see yourself to the end and someone to hold your hand. Human trafficking, dubious consent, and strong sexual themes that could trigger emotional distress are found in this story. This story is NOT for everyone.
This is War, Baby is a super dark twisty book, but if you can push yourself through it, if you can read all the dark and awful parts, you'll find the good bits, you will find a love story lurking in the darkness.
Baylee was a typical teenage girl, falling in love for the first time, dealing with parents who didn't really understand her, dealing with her mother's sickness, and discovering her own sexuality. And then it happened, Baylee was torn from everything she knew, everyone she knew and thrust in a new world, a dark world, one that both distresses her and also one that offers her something she's never felt before. Baylee knows it's not a good situation, and its not one she wants to remain in forever, but she's afraid of what will happen when she finds herself in a new situation. Will it be worse? Will she suffer more? Will she leave with a monster?
Warren had no idea what he was involving himself in when he found a website and dived into an unknown world, a dark place, but the place he found something he hadn't had, a light in the darkness, a Hope for change. War is unsure what to do to keep Baylee happy and settled in a life with him, he knows what he wants for her, but he's also feeling a shift in his own wants and needs. It's more than he expected, more than he'd ever planned for and Warren isn't sure how he'd ever be able to let Baylee go.
But as Warren and Baylee grow closer, as she lets him know the details surrounding the hows and the whys she ended up with him, Warren is disgusted with what she has suffered and he swears to protect her with everything he has. But the man who took Baylee from her family before, is obsessed and has never had any plans to let her go, to have her not be a part of his life. As Baylee and Warren settle into a somewhat comfortable relationship, the man who stole her is making plans and moves to steal her back, this time forever.
This is War, Baby is unsettling at times, hard to read, but while it will have you clinging to something, it will also offer you sweet morsels of hope, of peace. This story is proof that even in the direst of situations, even when the pain threshold has been high, love can find a way, and it will be worth it. Warren and Baylee are both complex characters fighting their own battles, fighting the thoughts and the parts of their mind that affect them the hardest. This book isn't an easy read, and it's not all tidy and happy, what it is, is Real. It's brutal yet reflective, hardcore, yet soft around the edges. It gives us a love worth fighting for and the story of two people who find just what they need in one another.
K. Webster sucks you into this book, into each depraved act, into the tranquility of a safe zone after the torment and leaves you gasping for breath, heart thundering in your chest, and ultimately on the edge of your seat wondering what is going to happen and how things are going to end. I'm already anxious for the next book.
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