Review: no, just no
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 26, 2014
When I started reading this novel I had a faint hope that it would be something like "On the Island". Otherwise I would never have picked it up. Boy was I wrong!Let me make it clear to you:The 30 year old heroine makes her first move on a 17 year old boy and has sex with him when he is in a VULNERABLE POSITION, drawing upon his trust in her as a kid (8 years of age). And that is criminal.She then repeats the sexual acts because "he is so beautiful", and she is so lonely and unsatisfied, and she can't help herself. Is this a person with no control over her sexual impulses?I tried to believe their romance, I really did, since it was pasionately painted. But everytime he spoke, I could't help but hear a child's voice in my mind. It was disturbing...And it's not the age difference that bothers me. I saw this done well in On the Island. The romance was believable there, boundaries were set that allowed him to mature and them to grow closer. I bought the tension, I bought the chemistry.But not here...The writing wasn't bad, but it didn't thrill me either. Some characters (his parents, her husband) were so grossly drawn that they became caricatures. The dialogue was sometimes cheesy, the monologue repetitive.