Review: 3.5stars, lots of sex, sweet heroes but lacked emotion.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 20, 2013
Some nice parts to this story, and some that disappointed. I loved the idea of this story, although not original in the world of contemporary romance, where a sweetheart of a guy like Tyler keeps making bad decisions, really, really bad ones until the day he meets his match in life. A man who can command his attention but not just for or with sex, a man that he falls for. Haris on the other hand had his own demons to battle, which he did, throughout the story, until the last page. It simply took too long, and this was a long book, for them to confess their feelings. They were constantly distracted by sex and even that would have been great if I had sensed a better emotional connection and if they had even unintentionally or just in a moment of honesty,  let something slip about the love they had for each other.  This essential connection was missing for me. They each doubted the other's feelings until it seemed almost awkward for them to be together sexually. Then there were the many villains, Tyler was concussed one night, brutally whipped the next and then captured and nearly raped the next. I was in despair, thinking, this is too much for a sweet guy to really survive, even then Haris could have just grabbed onto him and told him how he felt, but he did not, and neither did Tyler. It was as if everyone was on edge, including me, to see what could happen and it never did. It was not drama that was lacking in this book,  what was lacking was communication. I liked the writing, as I always do with BE, but this will not be one of her re-reads for me and so a solid 3.5 star book for me .