Review: Fast Losing Interest . . .
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 30, 2012
The shame of it is that this author is a pretty competent writer of erotic fiction as I have read some of her other titles and been pleased with them. But having made the mistake of pre-ordering all the portions of the Because You Are Mine series, I now get them automatically on my Kindle at midnight on their release dates. The problem is, I am no longer interested. This last installment came and I was for a moment perplexed, not recalling why I was getting it. Full disclosure: I did not get past the first four pages. And this is not a negative review of the writing, per se. It's more a condemnation of the format which detracts from your ability to appreciate the writing.I now feel like I'm being played. And that's because I no longer care about these characters. The serialized format makes it difficult for you to "bond" with them, to care about them, and to believe that they are bonding with each other. And unless you go back to the previous installment to refresh your recollection about what happened prior, the author must do that for you by wasting valuable pages with plot exposition prose instead of character development or dialogue. Will there be hot sex scenes, very competently written? I'm sure there will. But that's not enough to make me favor this over other romantic erotica that comes all at once in a single e-book. Especially since the billionaire kinkster falling for the innocent is no longer an original concept.So all in all, I have to say, I would not recommend this series perhaps until the pieces are united into a single book, sensibly priced at around $4.99 instead of the extortionist level of $16.99. Furthermore, it seems that with each new installment, the book begins further along on the Kindle. The last installment began at 5% and this one at 9%. What gives? I think this is blatant disrespect of your readers and of the buying public. Save your money, folks.