Review: Unbelievable, but erotic
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 18, 2012
I wanted not to like it and I was sure I wouldn't, because:a - Ethan, the abductor, seemed so cold and total a-hole, a billionaire with king-of-the-world delusions;b - David, the abductee, seemed a scared rabbit of indefinite color, whom I couldn't connect with and whom I found un-engaging.My not liking the characters didn't change much by the end, but I couldn't put the book down. I only did it for two days because I fell sick, but while I was fighting the nasty bug, my mind was trying to devise a lot of a-la-Trap plots. I think it was proved somewhere that thoughts of sex lowers pain, and if it wasn't proved, I volunteer for the experiment.When there is a billionaire as lead character, breaking all the laws of countries and propriety, forcing himself on the almost willing other lead character, I think you can't deny there's some bodice-ripping going on (is there a term for m/m romance? trousers-ripper?). Since I'd like to be abducted by a hot billionaire, or by an alien with interesting body parts, the story worked for me. It worked because there are moments when it's unbearably erotic, where the attention is focused on details and sensations, tastes, touches that gave me shudders in a good way. And a brilliant idea. There were also moments that made me roll my eyes, but honestly, I am rarely surprised lately, and why is there only one book by this author? I'd like to read more from her.Even if there is a dominance/submission dinamics in the book, I didn't want to shelve it as bdsm. It's one of those unshelvable books for which nothing really fits. It's a sort of bold fantasy, where for fantasy I mean "a series of pleasing mental images, usually serving to fulfil a need not gratified in reality". Read at your own peril!