Review: Oh how it all went so wrong....
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 22, 2014
I got this book because I kind of have a thing for spanking books and this one actually had a decent cover and a pretty good synopsis. I even pushed a few books aside to start this one right away because I was excited for a dominant hero holding a captive bride. Come on. That just sounds amazing, but sadly it was not.Brianna Willis is a biographer who just wrote a book for a Russian mob boss that is going to get her killed. Once word gets out that she has in her possession a book that might contain secrets that will take people down she gets a massive target on her back. One of those after her is Dmitry, the nephew of the man she wrote the book for. While Dmitry may have built his company up on his own, he is scared that if the secret gets out that he got his start up money from his uncle then his business could come crashing down around him. So he knows he must get his hands on this book and Brianna. What he doesn’t expect is the overwhelming need to have her and do whatever it takes to make her his (including marriage) just from seeing her picture.Oh my god. All that sounds so freaking wonderful doesn’t it? While it’s over the top and kind of ridiculous (yes I called the spanking book ridiculous) I was down for this whole "take her captive, make her mine, and spank her little butt when she gets sassy"…. but F me!  It went oh so wrong. I’m not sure I can stop the spoilers from coming. It's the only way I can purge this out of me, I think. This book made me feel bi-polar because I was trying to take it with a grain of salt because 1. it’s a spanking book and 2. it’s a captive story.  I have to take these points into consideration while I read to try and wade through what is ok and what isn’t for the tone of the book without crossing the line into unforgivable abuse and for me this so didn’t freaking work.For Dmitry to get Brianna he has to pay the man that got to her first a very large chunk of change. To him that means she now belongs to him (which he degradingly reminds her constantly) and she will obey him along with being his wife. He believes her marrying him will show everyone that she won’t tell the secrets she knows and he wants her anyways and it’s about time he settles down. *rolls eyes* Nothing warms my heart more than a man wanting to marry me because well, it’s just time and he isn’t getting any younger don’t you know? When he tells Brianna of his plans she freaks out of course. She has been kidnapped and told she is to marry this man and be his wife in all ways. While he says he won’t “rape” her (which he does in my opinion… he lies a lot) she will come to him willingly, but that’s not really how it plays out.Brianna has some fire in the start of the story which is quickly washed way, but she is also a little ditzy. I find that a lot in spanking books with the women so I overlook it, as that’s kind of what you get with these stories. What I’m not used to is my hero being such a giant Ahole. His moods gave me the worst reading whiplash I have experienced in a long time. Here come some examples which are probably spoilers. The first day he takes her he also F-ers  her. While he tries to slowly work into having sex with her he eventually just thrust himself  into her full force pretty harshly and brutally, but he does stop and takes it slower. Ok this works for me. It’s a captive story so there has to be dark, but then he brings me back by showing he can be gentle and he doesn’t want to hurt her.  This is how the whole book goes, but each mess up he makes gets worse, and worse, and omfg worse.At some moments he was really sweet and he would pull me back in a little then the next second he was doing the unthinkable. This ranged from beating her butt black and blue and pretty much raping her because he was jealous to screaming at her calling her a cheating wh*** c***. I was so livid and shocked at his behavior at times I couldn’t stand it. I didn’t understand how I started off great with this book and got to a point where I wanted to murder someone.Worst was when he kicked her out after she told him she was pregnant. He was so sure it wasn’t his and he told her if he saw her again he would kill her. I’m like really? How could she cheat? If she’s not with you she’s with the old guy bodyguard! Anyway, she takes off fearing for her life and ends up in a rundown meth hotel for 6 weeks until she ends up miscarrying the baby. When all the truth comes to light Dmitry races to find her and pleads for her to come back… HE CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT HER! But guess what?? His I’m sorries are… spankings. She just lost her baby, you went psycho on her, and to get her back you spank her? Of course she forgives him and they are so happy! He never really says sorry and from what I saw in the book each time he lost his cool it got worse and worse so this chick is going to die. And to be honest I really don’t care if she does because she is all "I love him. I always have. I never stopped." NEVER! I hope they all die.