Review: Didn't work for me at all
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 23, 2012
I downloaded this because I was intrigued by something I read in another review, which is that the main female character has 8 kids, is married to a preacher and calls herself Christian. I was curious to see how the author was going to make an erotic heroine out of that material and whether she'd be successful. Setting that question aside for a moment, let me say that I've downloaded a lot of erotica that is so amateurish that the bad writing gets in the way. This is not one of them. The writing is not great prose, but it's smooth enough that it doesn't get in the way of the story or action. I did not, however, like the author's use of so much Facebook chatting to carry the story. Another minus is the typos and spelling mistakes, and I hope the author will do another proof-read and reload the story. Like a lot of erotica written by women and available on Amazon, this story features a perfect hero: he's rich, has an incredible body (of course with six-pack abs), is romantic, attentive and has eyes only for the heroine. He is even a gourmet cook, always the finishing touch in these stories. Do readers really want such cardboard heroes? The heroine, meanwhile, is totally imperfect: she swears like a trucker, spends too much time on the computer, and talks a LOT about her too-big ass, her too-small breasts, her wrinkles and her flabby tummy. I don't understand why so many authors focus on women's insecurities about their bodies. Can't they come up with more inventive ways to make female readers identify with the heroine? This story features a lot of sex but the sex scenes didn't turn me on; I was hitting the page-turn button so frequently that my husband, in bed next to me and hearing all the clicks, asked me what I was reading so fast. To be fair -- and it was the only reason I gave this story three stars instead of two -- I did read to the end instead of giving up because I wanted to find out what happened. Alas, the ending doesn't just strain belief, it falls flat on its face. It would be really hard to make that plot turn work. It felt like the author was pandering to conventionality by ending the story this way.