I recently read The Bratva’s Locked up Love: A Bratva Captive Romance by Jagger Cole. For me, this novel was extremely realistic and suspenseful. It literally kept me on the edge of my seat.
Let me explain a little about my background. Today, I am a retired public school teacher, but I have some educational “experience” with the penal system. For example, when I did my student teaching at a large middle school, part of the co-teaching curriculum entailed taking 100 students on a trip to a large local two year jail. (Around this time was when “Scared Straight” came about on TV.) There we toured the “school” in the jail and the students learned the high recidivism rate of criminals who do not graduate from high school or get their GED. We walked through one tier of the jail, which was scary as all hell when the incarcerated men yelled all kinds of profanities at the students and teachers. As a college senior doing my student teaching, I had a dress code to follow and wore a suit with matching skirt, below the knee. It was an awful experience for me walking with the students through the tier of the jail that day and hearing the catcalls. I was shaking inside, but I had to act strong for my students. Doctor Quinn Coolidge was brave and naïve to wear the skirt around the male prisoners and guards, especially with her proximity to incarcerated patients. When we arrived to tour the jail, we were warned that if anything happened during our visit, we would be locked in a room for safety. When moving a female prisoner, she managed break loose and the jail went on lockdown; we were quickly ushered into a room and locked in which was pretty scary for middle school students. All in all, the trip was memorable for all students, even the so-called “tough” students who “thought” they were bad-asses.
As a young teacher scrambling to make ends meet, I taught several summers in a youth correction center. One summer I taught girls at a maximum security facility and another summer I taught boys in a minimum security facility. The first day on the job as a teacher, we learned self-defense techniques that would save us but not hurt the student. For example, what to do if a student pulls your hair from the back or puts you in a choke hold. The girls were extremely combative with each other. It was very challenging to teach them; I did not last that whole summer teaching the girls. ☹ When teaching the boys, there was more respect for a female teacher, but there were strict protocols that the male students could not get within a teacher’s personal “bubble of space” (measured by holding my hands out straight and to the side). Students varied in age from 14 to 18 years old and some would try to get “handsy.” Pencils were counted and passed out at the beginning of a class, and the same number had to be returned—a pencil was contraband out of the classroom and could be used as a weapon. Guards would be around to assist if needed. I really appreciated when one would hang around my afternoon classes because they were especially rough. Once a thunder storm hit in the afternoon and the facility lost power; we went into lockdown in the school. I am not going to lie, I was petrified. Luckily a guard was in my room thank goodness, because the lockdown lasted over an hour. I know how scared and wary I felt in these experiences, so I can relate to some of the fear Quinn felt trying to maintain her idealism in her profession but walking a fine line of keeping herself safe while helping her patients with medical tools that could be weapons in the wrong hands.
When the tension between Quinn and prisoner 5049/Maksim heats up, I was panicking because I really had no idea if 5049/Maksim would harm her in any way, especially with the prison guards’ description of him being an “animal.” So many twists and turns to this plot also had my stomach doing flip-flopping as I agonized over Quinn’s safety every step of the way. Jagger Cole will keep you spell-bound as you delve deeper into this off-the-grid Yellow Creek prison and make the reader question who are the criminals and who are the good guys…
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