Review: "Unbearable" is right.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 2, 2014
This is the second book of the story of Slade and Sam's relationship.The first book was okay, despite a lot of poorly written dialogue, repetitive scenes and bad grammar. A sentence should not end with the word, "at"!!! (e.g. "Where'd you get that recipe at?"--used by older people, too! Everybody! Drove me nuts!) Not great but readable, at least.But this book is pretty awful. The first half is just painful--Sam tries to cope with a loss and it's ridiculous how badly Slade handles everything. Why do these people never actually SAY what they MEAN??? I am so sick of characters who just assume they know what everyone thinks--invariably wrong, and causing all of the conflict in the story. However, it's not real story conflict IMO. REAL conflict is unavoidable (THERE'S another title for this series). If the conflict can be avoided with a simple conversation by two people who have repeatedly told each other "no secrets" (HAH!) then it's just b.s. because the author can't come up with anything else.Finally, halfway through, Sam comes out of her funk but the rest of the book fluctuates between dangerous and unlikely situations which NEVER get resolved (I assume they will be wrapped up in book 3?) and tedious details of their daily lives and never-ending S&M; sex. Who ever thought alterna-sex could become boring? Well the author manages it here.It was also kind of distasteful how Slade always had to be in charge and commanding and ordering her around, in and out of bed. He treated her like a child, half the time, even negating her anger over real situations (like his never ending edicts) with sex, so she would just relax and forget she was angry.It was annoying in the extreme.Truthfully, I'm not sure I care enough about these characters to read the next book.