Review: Wall Street Journal meets Erotic Romance
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 13, 2014
The good news is that this book was properly edited and there weren't those bad grammatical errors you see in a lot of romance novels. But, the writing seems amateurish with cardboard stereotype characters. I appreciate that this author is trying to tell the story from the point of view of the male (Jack) and the female (Kate) protagonists.  But, hearing their thoughts about how wonderful they see themselves is annoying.  I rolled my eyes as Jack described his hair dye job and shaving his goatee.Also, please do we have to hear about his testosterone treatment? Seriously? This is NOT sexy. He's 49, not ancient. The romance with Kate who is more than 25 years his junior could be interesting without all the cliches.Jack made his millions in the fashion industry and now he's selling his business for billions and moving on with his life. He goes to a sugar daddy website, finds Kate and within a couple days they are having sex in a hotel room.Unfortunately, it isn't anywhere near hot as that sounds. Half the time they are talking about business and sometimes I felt like I was reading an WSJ article on fashion merchandising.  Surprise!  Kate is going to school for fashion merchandising.  So he's going to help her with her career.  And while Jack is giving Kate multiple orgasms, they are still talking to each other in stilted ways sounding something like, "Thank you, Jack for that great orgasm."M T Stone does not write great dialogue. Characters have conversations that are dull and contrived. They are not so much developed as simply spouting what they own, how much money they have, and what they plan to buy.I don't have any problem with the popular romance novel theme of billionaire men spoiling women with their riches and great sexual prowess.  Although, in this story it wears a little thin.  I like to encourage writers and I think that this author has some talent.  But, for me even the sex scenes (and as fas I'm concerned you can never have too many sex scenes) there was just something clinical about the descriptions and not much of a connection between the lovers.