Review: The Idea Was Better Than The Reality
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 16, 2013
This was an okay read all around.  The book hit a bunch of points - an interesting plot, interesting characters, erotica, romance, angst - but it didn't spend enough time on any of those points to make it better than "okay."  I really liked the idea behind the whole, humans using technology to get rid of the whole need for personal procreation and it backfiring because all of the human females born by that technology were sterile and now men are paying huge sums of money for breedable females from those few populations left that didn't utilize the technology.  That's a really cool idea.Unfortunately, that was the most well-rounded part of the book.  There is so little time spent on the characters that they all become caricatures.  The only time the author takes to show the differences between the men is how they treat April in bed.  And April goes from being sad/upset about being sold to totally accepting and happy that she can do this for her father and his new wife in the course of 2 pages on my Kindle.Even if all you're looking for is erotica you won't come away completely satisfied because the scenes are short, graphic without a lot of build-up or description, and over with quickly so that there can be a short burst of "plot" before jumping into another scene.  Basically, everything from the character development to the plot development to the erotic scenes to the little twist at the end needed to be more fully fleshed out.  The author seems to have rushed through writing the book in order to get it on the market as quickly as possible; unfortunately the quality suffered.