Review: I sure couldn’t climax
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 21, 2014
I don’t even know where to start with this book. I probably said, "What the F?" 30 times while reading it. I think I got the idea of the kind of darkish book the author was going for, but I don’t think it played out the way she intended or she just didn't get me, the reader, to get it.Blaire was busting her butt to make ends meet. When her mom became sick she had no option but to drop out of college and get the best paying job she could find. Of course that job was stripping… and of course, she was a virgin. I know. I know, the virgin stripper again you're thinking, but sadly this is why I clicked the book. For some reason the virgins just pull me in.One night when stripping she locked eyes with a mysterious man getting a lap dance. She was instantly jealous of this random man getting said lap dance from her stripper friend, Honey. This mysterious man is Jaxxon Ryder. Not only is he a millionaire, he is also a Dom (so he thinks.) I wouldn’t call him that. I believe he is an abuser, but whatever. The author gives us both the hero and heroine's point of views so we are going back and forth throughout the story.My first brush with Mr. Ryder was not good. In fact, it was freaking horrible. Ryder went to the strip club that night to let off some steam. He intended to do this by banging one of the strippers in the Climax room. This is a room you can take the strippers and do them and it is set up for BDSM play as well. He intended to take Honey back in the room until Raven, Blaire's stage name, hit the pole. He instantly wanted her, needed her. Dumping Honey off his lap he tried to go to her, but was shot down. See Raven is a classy stripper. She doesn’t bang the guys. So Ryder had one of the girls pass her a note with an offer she couldn't refuse… but she did angered he couldn't have Raven, he grabbed Honey and had her suck him off and then got busted by Raven.Raven was hurt and stormed out of the strip club.  Ryder shoved Honey off him and chased after Raven, only to see her peel out of the parking lot. But he couldn't get her out of his mind. He had to find a way to have her. Luckily for him, her mom’s health took a fast decline and Blaire needed money ASAP or her mom was going to die. So when Ryder made his next offer she didn't refuse.Ryder didn’t want Blaire to know it was him paying to bang her, so he made her always wear a blindfold. Blaire thought he was just some random guy that saw her at the strip club and wanted her. She clearly was not bright enough to put two and two together. Ryder made her sign a contract essentially owning her for 14 days. This is where the story got horrible. He was the meanest freaking Dom ever. He even said he wanted to make her safe-word and break her. "Her fear & terror makes me prideful inside." He got off on her terror or at least the “demon” in him did.This demon stuff was weird. Ryder was always talking about this demon in him and releasing it or it needed to get out. Even Blaire started talking about this demon. It was the stupidest thing ever. They acted like it was a real person… maybe it was I guess, because Ryder was bi-polar and not all mentally there. One second he was all talking about how he loved how she tasted and then .5 seconds later he was screaming at her. These mood swings gave me whiplash.Ok, so he tied her up and popped her cherry (which I think he popped it twice… no clue.) Some of the sex was hot in the beginning. Well, I take that back. I only enjoyed the first oral scene, but then after that I hated him, so I couldn’t get into them. Maybe if I didn’t dislike him so much I would have enjoyed them. I kept thinking any moment the author would give me redemption and make me get him. I was in his head so I got that he was falling for Blaire and obsessed, but this didn’t show in his actions. At 70% in he let some chick at his work strip naked for him and play with his balls while he licked her breast… I call cheating! Hello! Then he was all, "I LOVE HER!" and I was all, “YOU ALL DON’T TALK! What are you talking about?”Blaire just took it all and was convinced she loved him. He even tied her to a chair and brought Honey in to try and do her. The same chick Blaire lost it about before. I could go on and on about all the messed up stuff he did to her. There was never a turnaround moment or a show that he would fight for her. The author failed at the obsession tactic. She missed it by a mile and just gave me a pure psychopath. His reasons for being the way he was were the most BS of all. The only way this book would have gotten me to “climax” is if I could have murdered the hero of the story.Mistress M