Review: Read a ketchup label instead
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 24, 2014
This book gets one star so I can write a review.  Now, Amazon says one star is "I hate it," but that comes no where near to explaining how bad this book is. I feel cheated over losing the five seconds of my life I wasted waiting for this free book to download.  I don't normally savage a book or its author, but this book is so bad I feel it has earned the right to be scathingly reviewed by me. I LOATHED this book. Abhorred it.  Despised it.  And I didn't even really finish it!Ms. Dominguez is probably a really nice person. Or maybe not. She may or may not be a wife, a mother, a cab driver, president of the PTA, or even an astronaut. I don't know. But I will tell you for certain what I do know about her: She is NOT a writer.  Yes, she put words on paper, but that doesn't make her a writer any more than putting gas in my car makes me a mechanical engineer.Lillian is not a sub.  She is a whiny, wimpy, fearful little brat who thinks that having a smart mouth and a once-bitten-twice-shy attitude means she is tough. Not so.  If she were, she wouldn't fall for Tucker's b.s.Tucker is not a Dom. He's a.... I can't really swear here, so let's call him a sphincter in human form and you'll know what I mean.  He's not direct or even blunt, he's just crude, rude, and insulting. He's a control freak and he is not looking for a relationship to grow in with another person, he's looking for an obedient robot. Which he finds in Lilliana.The writing here is worse than bad or uninspired and veers directly into insipid.  The plot is thin, stupid, and contrived.  The main premise, a man searching for and finding a D/s dynamic and love, is a joke.  Because all this book is really about is giving Dominguez an excuse to write really, really bad sex scenes that she tries to make "hot" with ploys like having Tucker shout "shake your money maker!" at Lilliana just before they are going to have sex.  It's... awful.  I had been skipping and skimming up to that point, trying to find something nice to say about this book but, really,I laughed out loud when I read that and then gave up.  Well, not really; I skipped ahead to figure out the ending which was, shall we say, not only predictable, but stupid and lame.This book not only needs an editor and a proof reader, but if Dominguez ever again considers writing a book, she should consider hiring a ghost writer.  Really, it's that bad.I'm guessing that all those 4- and 5-star reviews you're seeing are Dominguez's friends and family creating multiple accounts and reviewing the book over and over in order to push sales so she can earn enough money to finally buy that dictionary / thesaurus set she's been saving up for.  She sure could have used it this time out.Really, how this book got a single positive review I will never know.  Not only is the writing pitiful, the story ill-conceived, and the characterization one-dimensional, the sex isn't even any good. No, really. You pick D/s as your premise, you have whips, chains, paddles, blindfolds, and so much more at your disposal, and you still can't come up with a sex scene that doesn't make the reader yawn?  You need to hang up your pencils. For good.If you're really desperate for something to read, don't let it be this book.  Just move along. There's nothing to see (or read) here.