Review: A wasted Read!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 26, 2014
I really tried to like this series...alas it proved too mundane for me! Book one although a drag was actually okay at the beginning because we still saw Drake as mysterious.  I disliked Elaine from early on because she seemed too juvenile for her age.  She's said to be about 26 yet she was so undecided about a lot of things and it seemed her so called feud and disappointment with her dad was just in her mind.  She also did not seem to know her own mind about what she wanted to explore sexually and kept running to the lady friend who trained Drake in his so called BD part of BDSM! She also had a friend whom she could not either cut off or take a stand against!  Just juvenile! The book was not really clichéd it was just badly written I think.I did not connect with any of the characters because for some reason there were a lot of words used to describe mundane things going on but not really much depth to the characters. The author's narrative got worse in book two that it was a sheer torture to read up to 50% of the book.Narratives like "drake brought two champagne glasses for us to celebrate, stoked the fire and picked up the glasses he placed on a table by the side of the chair, and he poured two fingers, lifted his glass and toasted to us and I lifted my glass and toasted to us and we sipped as we stared at each other" .... or " i heard two pings on my phone and i opened my phone flap and saw a message icon at the top left corner of my phone screen and i pressed the button and the text opened and i saw i had a message from Drake".....OH MY GOD! that's the dialogue of Elaine's thoughts.  It was like that the entire book that I wanted to strangle the author for writing like that.  Who even thinks like that, it's either there is a reason why such mundane things are mentioned or skip them and get to the gist of the scene with less words.  It was horrible!It was an awful book in the end.  I couldn't even bring myself to finish it!  I was so disconnected from the entire character from skippping the long winded narratives that I skipped the scenes with ex-wife, the son, ex-wife's husband and all other useless information that did not really add to the story other than to just throw it in there.Also, Elaine was rich yet she denied her riches then abandoned her ideas as soon as she starts dating drake meanwhile she kept wearing the same dress over and over again at the first few formal events she went to - surely between her mega rich dad and boyfriend they could afford to buy her a dress! ARGHHhhhh!!! Just no show of the opulence that the author said both Elaine's dad and Drake had!They kept doing the same things over and over again with the exact same narrative which killed me more than anything.In the end, the book is a sad use of the BDSM world and certainly did not explore the BD part of the BDSM that the author said Drake had!  I ended up hating Elaine and barely tolerating Drake!  Maybe it should have ended in Book1!