Review: Urban erotica flop
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 4, 2013
The reasons for my sub par review are numerous, but I'm only going to discuss 3 of them here.My number one reason for disliking this book was that all the characters were flat and I did not empathize with any one of them. For example, Galvinston/Maurice has sex with just about every female character in the book. The only explanation was that he had  "high sexual appetites." Ok, I could have been alright with that if he had a reason for being such a freak, but there was none.  He was a medical  doctor who will probably end up a future HIV case because not one time did I read that protection was used. It was just so unrealistic.My number two reason for not liking the book was that the sex was so bland! At those parts, I felt like I was reading a commentary of someone watching a scene, I did not feel engaged one bit. In fact, the sex scenes were so over the top badly written and silly sometimes that I had to gloss over them. SPOILER: The scene where the couple is in the woods and Belvyn ultimately gives Joe the reason to call her Cupcake was so bad that I blushed out of embarrassment because of the writing. I can't believe no one critiqued this before it went to final print.The third reason revolves around the names of the characters themselves. I was so irritated with keeping up with people's nicknames, and real names that I had to stop reading for several minutes. Had I been reading this in printed paper book form, I would have thrown it.If you are a literary masochist and enjoy reading bad erotica that sets your teeth on edge then this is the book for you. Otherwise, keep it moving.This book has as much character as a cadaver. The pace of the book was ok, and that is the ONLY reason I gave it 2 stars instead of one.For the record, I wanted to like this book which is why I finished it. But by the time I did, I did not care what happened to any of them. I will not be reading book two.