Review: Tainted Love is a brilliant follow up to "Sweetest Taboo"
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2013
*POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT*When I first read Sweetest Taboo, I felt author Eva Marquez writing on the subject of an older man in a relationship with an underage teen was a bad idea. But to my amazement she handled it in such a way, the story wasn't dirty, erotic or pornographic. The subject, bottom line is a minefield of emotions, but just because it's wrong on a moral level doesn't mean that it isn't happening. I accepted her story and read the book for exactly what it was and in that first book, she won me over as a reader.Once again she's done it with book two. "Tainted Love" picks up with Isabel now in college and her relationship with Tom is no longer illegal. She's a woman now, free to date anyone she likes. However we were left wondering from book one, was Tom just an older man who was tired of his married life and two kids at home? Was he a man on the prowl for an unsuspecting teen who was too naive to see through his lust? Or was he simply someone who allowed himself to develop a mutual crush on a student who felt the same towards him? Marquez answers these questions clearly and concisely by also writing part of the story from his perspective. Soon I found myself wondering if he wasn't the naive one and the victim and she the one seducing him? Tainted Love deals with the subject of what do you do when you finally get what you ask for? When nothing is in your way to stop you from seeing your forbidden lover, was it everything you ever dreamed it was? Or is it now no longer appealing because the mystery is gone, the danger is gone. The book is so well written and the emotions I felt as a reader were quite real, at times I was angry and furious with Isabel and other times couldn't trust anything Tom was telling her.I dare not go on because I just don't want to spoil any of this story for future readers. Suffice it to say, I loved it! Can't wait for the third installment and I give this book without a doubt, 5 stars!