Review: I really wanted to LOOOOVE IT
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 24, 2014
ARC Was Given To Blog For An Honest ReviewIt is no secret that book one, Used, was not one of my favorite books.  I did not get most of the concept and a few things threw me for a loop. However, I was not giving up hope until I knew what happened next. That’s why I had to read book 2, Freed.I have to say that I enjoyed this book more than the first. I was still confused when it came to the type of relationship that Ransom wanted with Denver. I understand having certain needs and figuring out who you are; I just never felt that the concept made sense to me with everything else going on in the first book, Used. How did it fit in? I truly didn’t see Denver as the submissive type. She seemed to be more of a passive aggressive person.I expected more of the story to deal with Ransom’s lifestyle choices and to have lots of heat because of the type of relationship he wanted to have with Denver.  I truly thought the story was going to be centered on BDSM, with the first book just leading all up to the meat of it. That part of the story was there, but it was not forefront of the story. There are hot moments, but I was always left wanting more. That could be a good thing or a bad thing. At first I was leaning more toward the bad. It was not until just about the very ending of the book that I was like OMG, REALLY!!! It all started to make sense. I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING AT ALL!I do like the way the story resolved parts. I enjoyed watching Denver begin to heal and believe in herself and believe that she was a good person. Ransom was incredible in helping her with these issues. He used the BDSM lifestyle as a way to get her to trust and open up and really communicate with him and the others in her life. Sometimes Denver’s words made him hurt, but he took all her pain if in the end she would be happy.My biggest issue with the story is how the Greer problems were resolved. I get why it is told this way; I saw how the author spun the story to make both Denver and Greer accountable for certain things.  I want to feel bad for Greer, I liked to think he is not the type of man that would purposely hurt a women. I was happy that at least he called it like it was and owned up to it. The way the author resolved it allows the reader to forgive him and for Denver to forgive him. Denver even takes on some of the blame and apologizes to him, that really pissed me off to be honest and in fantasyland it might be acceptable. In real life I was saying No means NO, regardless of what is going on and when it is said. I felt a bit deflated with this part of the story.Concept is a huge thing for me when I read a story. This series had too many concepts and I found it confusing. Character development and connection to characters are my second and third requirements in a book. I will say that the book did have both of those. I was able to feel for the characters.Overall this book was not for me.