Review: Waste of time.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 11, 2014
No doubt this author is British based on how words were spelled, or spelt if you're bi-lingual. OK, I can overlook that, but please...for the most part this so-called story takes place in America. Here in America, our cars have "trunks", not boots. I've never heard an American man say "whilst". I doubt the average American man even knows what it means. OK, I'm being facetious here.The writing was never-ending sentences punctuated with dozens of commas. There is very little dialogue and what is there could have been better written by a middle schooler. Example of Damien and Tara's first meeting: "Tara?" "Yes?" "I'm Damien Lawson...I apologise (sp) for keeping you waiting. Can I get you a drink?" "Thank you, bourbon please." Yup, that's it. And the morning after Damien left and Todd was in the kitchen: "Tara, good morning. Help yourself to some breakfast." "Thank you. Where's Damien please?" "He left an hour or so ago. Said he'd be back later." "Oh, ok." End of conversation. Between those stimulating conversations is page after page of storytelling. Absolutely nothing draws the reader into the story. The last 25% of this book was endless sex. I'm all for hot and steamy love scenes, but this was just tedious and boring. I found myself skipping over it altogether just to get to the end.Damien was overbearing and controlling, his behavior (behaviour) blamed on survivor's guilt. Just what every reader of this book will have if they make to the end. I can't think of anything positive to say about Tara, so I'll just leave it at that.I saw this book as a free offer. I'm so glad I didn't waste my money on it, but I did waste my time. Too bad I can't get that back. Just a warning to those considering these free offers, check the 5-star reviews carefully. Usually, the one or two-liners that really don't say anything are most likely friends and family recruited to post something to help the author boost sales. Check and see how many other reviews were posted by that person and what they were for. I normally do that, but unfortunately, I didn't on this one. My bad.