Review: Thoroughly Enjoyable Book
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 30, 2014
The best part of this book is that it has extremely believable characters. As another reviewer already stated, everyone knows someone like the heroine in their lives. Goodhearted and too nave and impulsive for their own good. Unfortunately, most of them in real life don't have a hot alpha male boyfriend determined to set them straight and protect them from themselves. That's the stuff that romance is made of. That being said, this book is not pure fairytale either. They do have a number of real life conflicts and struggles in their relationship, which lends the story a foundation of reality. And then of course, there is plenty of hot sex to go along with that.My one caveat and hesitation with the story has to do with consent. The relationship is not nonconsensual and that is very clear. However, I personally am very sensitive to issues of consent. That bothered me a few times in this story. Sometimes it felt like that he wrote was taking advantage of the heroine's circumstances to get what he wanted. Again, it probably wouldn't bother most people, and some people might even like it, but if you are sensitive to such things as I am, tread carefully. It wasn't enough to make me dislike the book. I still liked it very much, but it did raise red flags a few times, and in the interest of full disclosure, I want to make it clear that that is why I rated the book 4 stars rather than 5. The story is good; the writing is good. I just have consent issues and want to be clear about that for anyone else who feels as I do.