Review: Down on Her Knees
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 25, 2014
No. Adults. Talk. Like. These. DOWN ON HER KNEES is the second novel I've read by Christine Bell--the first being DIRTY TRICK, a novel in which I skimmed copious amounts--and unfortunately I think it'll be the last.Courtney DeLollis is done with controlling men, which is why Rafe Davenport and his "lifestyle" are a complete turnoff. He's into dominating his sexual partners--and that's what they are since Rafe doesn't do relationships--and Courtney thinks there's only a thin line between what he does and what her ex did. Courtney and Rafe are the last of their group to be attached to another person, ergo they're going to end up together. The story lies in how that happens. Rafe proposes that they do four "scenes" with each other to get their sexual tension worked out: Courtney can get her confidence back and he can get her out of his system. Of course, it doesn't work out how he plans.Okay, I get it. A majority of these books are centered around sex and the plot works out from that point, but that doesn't mean that there should be no plot at all. Courtney and Rafe were caricatures. They had back stories that were created in one episode of a soap opera. The story was a series of scenes pasted together to make it seem like there was more than just sex, which was incredibly detailed and if Bell had spent as much time on the sex scenes as she did with the rest of the story, it would've been spectacular. Also, adults do not talk like this... Or maybe it's just me. This was an issue I also had with Bell's DIRTY TRICK. If these were 18 or 19-year-olds, I could let it pass, but it just seemed as though this is how the author figured people would sound, not how they actually sound. The novel was a study in badly executed clichés in my opinion, but I do seem to be in the minority. Furthermore, it takes a lot to put pen to paper and write a story for the entertainment of others, so I still give Bell props for that!