Review: No means no!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 24, 2013
I wavered between one and two stars for this book. I almost liked it. I'll be generous and give it two stars, but there are so many things wrong with this story.The minor issue that bugged me through the whole thing is, where does a police detective get the money for an $80,000 car, and all the other things he spends money on?There were some continuity errors that a beta reader or editor should have caught. Among them, that if the woman has no food and no furniture, she certainly won't have a computer. Also, when Nate is trying to figure out what's going on, he already knows she's spending a ridiculous amount on rent and that she's paying out $1,500 a month to someone (that's not a spoiler; we learn this at the beginning of the book). She's a rookie firefighter, and he can't figure out why she has no money left after paying out almost $3,000 a month in rent, utilities, and extortion payments. And he's a police detective? I suppose it's a good thing he's not an accountant.But the big, big issue I have with this book is that Nate is an abusive jerk. No, he's not a "bad boy". His behavior goes way beyond that. Why do authors - female authors - continue to write stories in which men keep going even after the woman says no? That's called rape, folks, and it's not sexy. And going through her house and pawing her underwear? Ew. And this is a woman who has been a sexual assault victim. Nate doesn't know that at the beginning, but he does know she's been a victim of abuse, and what's worse - the AUTHOR knew about the sexual abuse, and still wrote the scenes the way she did. I'm all for an alpha male, but he needs to have respect for women. Nate has NO respect for women at all.