Review: A story that confronts avid readers of romance novels with reality.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 7, 2014
As an avid reader of contemporary romance novels I'm used to stories about billionaires who fall in love and marry the love of their lives. With “Taint” I'm confronted with the reality: rich, cheating husbands, broken marriages and desperate wives. I love it and I'm really impressed with Jennings' choice of concept. It is a relation to reality I really appreciate. The idea that the male protagonist coaches married women how to seduce and satisfy their cheating husbands is priceless.Jennings' writing style is detailed and literary. I favor stories with troubled characters and a lot of emotionality and emotions. I love books that let me laugh, tear up and cry and I downgrade books that contain emotional topics but can't transport the emotions. Jennings' “Taint” isn’t focus on the emotionality of the characters. Ally and Justice know and are used to the situation of cheating husbands and broken marriages. “Taint” is a story with a single storyline and Ally's and Justice's relationship in the center of the story. It has an interesting twist at the end of the book that I really liked. In my opinion the whole ending is great.The story is written in Justice Drake's first-person narrative. He addresses the reader directly, interrupts his narration with thoughts and comments on the story and admits that he didn’t tell the whole truth. He tells the story in the presence. Most books tell the story in the female perspective or the narratives change between two narrators, “Taint” is one of the few books I read with only a male perspective. Justice's narrative adapts his personality and shows his current state of mind. His narration changes when his experiences with Ally change his point of view on relationships and cheating husbands.