Meet the Masens by FictionFreak95

Official Description:

Edward Cullen was done with cons until Marcus Volturi pulled him back in for one more job with his new front man, Bella Swan. Edward wants out for good but in a world based on deceit, who can he trust? AH BxE possible lemons if they don’t kill each other

Anyone that’s familiar with Fiction Freak95’s writing knows that she can spin a tale full of wit and humor, with a healthy dose of mystery, and lots of citrus. She has a writing style that’s all her own that draws the reader immediately into her world, and it’s just so much fun to read. I remember that day back in May when I was laughing so hard that I was gasping for air and holding my sides, reading the prologue of Fiction Freak95’s newest fic, Meet the Masens, thinking, “Wow! Jo’s done it again.”

The thing is, I was wrong.

Sure, on the surface it’s witty, funny as hell, mysterious and sexy. Just a little sample of the prologue confirms that much:

“Well?” she pushed me.

“Well…what?”

“Are you going to go check your bags?”

I laughed through my nose at her, thinking…she was kinda cute now that she was her normal smurf like size. I wondered if that would somehow make up for her pain in the ass attitude, in the bedroom.

“No.”

She snorted again. “Jerk.”

I laughed. She was kinda fun. In a very annoying kind of way.

“Brat.”

She made a face at my retort. “Asshole.”

I turned my attention back to my things. “Bitch.”

“Dick.”

I shot my eyebrows up a little and looked to her again. “Don’t make me break out the big guns, now,” I warned her, settling on the fact that no…the cuteness definitely wouldn’t make up for her pain in the ass attitude, in the bedroom.

The thing is, though, that Meet the Masens is so much more than that. Meet the Masens is a story about two con men, or con people, more accurately, that because of their profession can’t take anything in their lives at face value. The genius of this story is that you can’t take the story at face value, either.

You can put on your blinders and only pay attention to the pretty surface: fall for the cool, confident, capable con-man Edward Cullen and marvel over the beautiful, sassy and lethal con woman, Bella Swan. You can laugh at their banter, you can wallow in their UST, but delve underneath their facades, and there’s so much more going on beneath the surface. Just like this version of Edward and Bella, the reader is also forced to face the demons lurking just out of reach. It’s not always pretty, and it’s not always easy to read, but it’s the substance that takes this story from something that’s superficial to something that jumps off the page in three dimensions.

Oh, and it’s beautifully written, too. Sometimes amidst banter and gunfire, I’m taken aback by a sentence or a turn of phrase. Like this passage from the most recent chapter:

Ya know that moment? Between asleep and awake?…

Most people don’t like it there. It’s where hallucinations and horror reside, mayhem and monsters live there… and ninety percent of the world’s population can’t figure out how to wake themselves up or change their torment into fantasy or… whatever else it is they want it to be.

It’s the place Wes Craven based one of his all time best creature features on, A Nightmare on Elm Street. And we all know how that ended.

Me? I liked it in that realm. I wanted to stay there. It was full of the ocean and sailing and Bella’s soft hands caressing me in all the right places, among other things that might have been caressing me. Like words I’d probably never hear in this realm.

The real world? Now that’s where the monsters were.

It’s why I had been trying to delay the eye opening process for so long when I started to feel that familiar pang called the stream of consciousness beginning to take hold.

But all good things must come to an end, I suppose. And the end of my dream began with bright filtered light and lawn mowers engines revving from afar, reminding where I was.

Suburgatory.

So, whether your looking for a faced-paced story about the mob and con-men, or whether you’re looking for a sexy story full of UST and leading to lemons, or whether you want to think deep thoughts about the truth that lies just below the skin of each and every one of us, and each and every one of our neighbors, Meet the Masens is the fic for you.

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