Review: It's a shade better than ok.  3.5 stars.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 6, 2014
I love a dark erotic thriller and this is definitely quite dark, perhaps even a little icky somewhere along the line.  It's definitely enjoyable but there are many other of these kind of books out there at the moment that are quite a lot better.  (I have also read the next in series, left me feeling about the same).  The characterisations are good but for me the writing wasn't that strong and there were too many moments of suspend disbelief where the characters seemed to act out of character or outside of what's vaguely realistic.I like the sweetness of the love between Cove and Sophie and to my mind that saved the book but it didn't have the compulsion and intensity that would lift it above a little better than average.  Something of a pastiche IMO.