Review: Deal Breaker Early in the Piece
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 20, 2014
As reviewed on Goodreads.com:I couldn't get further than 5%. I couldn't bring myself to even muddle through the initial lude and bad taste erotica to get to the meat of the story, which had promise. I could have over looked the crass bawdy house encounter with the side characters. But the language used to refer to female genitalia by the hero is derogatory and the last straw was the anal stimulation in his fantasy. For me that's a deal breaker even in a fantasy. I would love to read Nicholas and Helena's story without this author's idea of erotica, which for me is filthy and very crass, and I am not a prude. But maybe the author deemed it necessary in character developement to present the sexual misconceptions on both hero and heroines parts in this way. Because I do see that as a key aspect to thier inital misunderstanding of each other and an integral part of thier story. But anal sex and stimulation is so negatively ingrained in me I just couldn't overlook it to see where we were going to be taken. Very disappointed. I'm truly sorry to give it 1 star but when you can't bring yourself to finish what can you do? I imagine unappetizing sexual descriptions aside it may have been a 3 star for me.