Review: Very Disappointing
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 5, 2012
"His Possession" is the first book by Sam Crescent that I've read; I was so excited about reading this story because the plot seemed interesting, and I went through great pains to find it, that being said I'm  pissed off at this book. For nearly $6 I got a book with a flimsy plot, flat characters with crude and juvenile dialogue, uneven story development/inconsistency and bad editing.From the start the author didn't make me care about and/or like the main characters Cadeon and Violet; throughout the entire story I kept asking myself "why are these two together?" Cadeon's obsession with Violet was just unbelievable; there were never any particular reasons or qualities given for his obsession with her. Also for a man of 40 I expected a lot more maturity with the ability to express himself better, towards Violet. He was purported as being a wealthy, cultured, successful man, however every time he opened his mouth he spoke and behaved like someone in their 20s. I lost count of the times he kept referring to Violet's breast as "tits" and her vagina in other vulgar terms.  Also for someone who kept professing his love and need to protect  Violet he always referred and/or described the thought and action of them being physically intimate by using the "F" bomb constantly. He rarely called it "making love", if ever.Violet was flat, she had no personality outside of being scared and timid all the time, and mooning over Cadeon. Her "past" as the author kept referring to was actually more interesting than her. I felt like the author coined Violet as being a "natural submissive" as a lazy way of not taking the time to actually develop the character and explain what her definition of a "natural submissive" means,  as if to say that being naturally submissive explained her doormat behavior and inability to speak up and form her own opinions. Violet is portrayed as having had an unimaginably difficult childhood, and the circumstances of that made her naturally weary of trusting or getting close to anyone for fear of rejection or worse. However, within a few hours of "officially" meeting Cadeon she has been bulldozed by him into moving into his home, sleeping in his bed and forced to accept a level of intimacy that she is clearly not familiar with or emotionally equipped to handle. Because Cadeon wanted to possess her like a new toy or acquisition he was selfish and immature in considering her needs. Not once did she give a true an honest objection to anything he wanted; sure she made a token effort a time or two in the whole story, whenever I thought she'd actually develop a backbone and put her foot down in one sentence, in the next paragraph she would meekly acquiesce to whatever Cadeon wanted, because after all she was "his" which Cadeon kept reminding her and anyone else who would listen with the maddening frequency throughout the book.I probably could have forgiven all of the fore mentioned things if the writing and editing hadn't been sub-para The story didn't flow and there was so much unexplained about each character that I found myself with more questions than answers, adding to the melee are a bunch of supporting characters and sub-plots that are also flat and under developed, it added more mess, confusion and unanswered questions, some so simple that had they been answered it would have actually given the characters and the story depth that it lacked.I wish that this review could've been positive; whether or not I like, love or just respect the characters in the end, I would've at least liked to have felt something; In all honesty I just wanted it to be over and I also wanted my money back.