Review: Disappointing read
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 14, 2014
This was a series of short stories that were put together into one book.  Wish I had read the first short story, since I would have stopped there.Julia Sharp (aka Shark) is the editor of Lynx Magazine, her creation and obsession.  When the stock market plummeted in 2008, Sandstone Ventures, bought 51% of Lynx and bailed her out.  Cut to today, when suddenly she is fired from her position of editor and thrown out of her offices with some lame excuse from Blake Stone, one half of the Stone brothers of Sandstone Ventures about how Julia had violated some arbitrary code.Going wild, Julia rants and raves as she is escorted out of the building.  Mark Stone, the other half of Sandstone Ventures, comes to Julia's rescue, and before the end of the second chapter, had her bent over his desk.  Thus begins a very boring story of how Julia and Mark begin a BDSM relationship in order to "save" Julia's magazine from falling into her rival's hands and being incorporated into Ladies World magazine.Trust was an ongoing theme in this story- trust between Julia and Mark, Julia and her former employer Janice, and Julia and herself.  Honestly, I trusted no one in this story, despite the fact that it ended happily.I've read a lot by Ms. West, and I have to say that I have totally enjoyed all of what she's written, so I was surprised at how bad this book was.  The plot was mere background for the main characters to jump each other.  Ms. West is an erotic romance writer, and the other stories I've read of hers focused more on plot, character development, and character background than this did, which was disappointing.