Review: Unbelievable! ... in a bad way
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2014
I'm sure this review will be frowned upon by all these fans! But whatever! I must be honest or else I will self implode.I'm sorry to the author for this, but I didn't like any part of this book. I'm a little stumped at all the five star reviews.This couple is the worst I've ever had the displeasure of reading. There was nothing redeeming in any of them.You get an "alpha" male who screws anything that moves. There seems to be a crazy new fad in books these days where the hero gets to screw girls other than the heroines throughout the book. Or be sexually touched and pleased in some way. It's unattractive and serves absolutely no purpose. It makes the hero unredeemable and hard to believe his own feelings when he's suddenly pining for the girl.The things that Slade said were absolutely laughable! And so downright unbelievable! I cringed too many times to count. They were not swoon worthy, and they were not even believably naughty! I love dirty talk, but this was just overdone. He used Aspen the same way he used every other girl. Didn't treat her any differently, so the talk wasn't special.There was NO storyline! Everything was sex, and it was all so unemotional. You didn't feel anything for whoever Slade was screwing. There was no heat or attraction between Slade and Aspen that was different from Slade and any other girl, so I was deeply confused as to what he found so different about her. I didn't see it. I didn't understand it. I MIGHT have been able to if they actually talked more! Instead, she vocalised how much she hated him, then she slapped/pushed him an infinite amount of times, then allowed herself to be touched, then got angry and stalked off. Put this on repeat. Because nothing else happens!It's difficult to connect when you see absolutely no build up between the characters. Their undying need to ravish each other is physical and nothing else, so why this had to go an extra mile and take an emotional turn makes zero sense. They shared nothing between each other. Their talk about feelings meant nada to me.And it astounds me that women can look at this type of hero who has been with just about every female (no joke) and can freely give their bodies away to him without caring that he might be carrying something nasty, or vice versa. It was as though the author was intentionally pushing the envelope for shock value. And we all know that if a woman acted this way, she's a slut. Yet we bow down to Lord Sex (aka Slade) because he's just SO HAWT!OMGZ.Yet another story driven purely on superficial traits.*Spoilers ahead*But the worst thing that could of ever happened to this book was Aspen. All respect for her went straight out the window when she clearly doesn't even demand respect from her boyfriend. What a pathetic heroine. So weak, she will allow her boyfriend to go off and have sex with other women to "get it out of his system." And why should she walk away from a jerk who treats her like crap? Oh, because she's invested five years into him and she just "can't" leave him. Like honestly, way to insert the most random plot after 80% of the book. It wasn't as though he just up and decided this after those years either. She clearly states that he'd go out and spend his nights with chicks. So dumb.And last but not least, why do all these heroines shriek and scream during sex? It's weird constantly envisioning them literally hollering like banshees. At the amount of sex they're getting, these poor men will be sure to lose their hearing.