Review: 4.5 from me!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 19, 2013
I feel like I should start this review off saying, that if you enjoyed M.S. Willis's Control series, THIS BOOK IS NOTHING LIKE THEM!  There are parts of this book that are graphic, disturbing and overall just creepy. This is also the first book in the series!  By that I mean, there is a lot of background information that you are being told, which is why at certain parts the story seems to drag along.  But if you go into this knowing that it is the first in the series, then you will be able to understand the beginning of this story better.In an effort to be completely honest, I didn't like Madeleine at all in the beginning of the book.  There was just something about her that made me want to smack her a few times because of her actions and her personality.  It wasn't until about halfway through the book that I started to like her, because of her ability to stand up and help Aaron when he needed it.  Now Aaron's character he is a different story.  There were times where I completely enjoyed him, but other parts where I didn't really understand his actions.I think that there could have been more background on both of those characters in the sense that we don't really know WHY Aaron is the way that he is today.  What happened that caused him to take that path in life?  While there was some information about The Estate, there wasn't a ton of information about how it started.  I'm hoping that in the future books, we will learn more about that.The story itself was really interesting to follow along; it was a different twist on the Master/slave relationship than many that I have read.  Unlike some of the Master/slave with a dark twist books out there, this one has a very minimal rape scene in it.  And I enjoyed the fact that it only had the 1 scene.  The relationship that progresses is one that is consensual later on in the book.Overall I did enjoy this book and I would recommend it to others!Reviewed by Crystal's Many Reviewers