Review: Intense. Steamy and Sad
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2013
29 year old Nonnie is searching for something. It's probably something two thirds of the universe is chasing."I wanted to be swept away in a grand and passionate love affair. I wanted it to wrap itself around me and raise me out of the monotony I had made of my life, of myself. I needed that perfect love to vindicate my past."I knew from book one The Businessman's Tie, that she wasn't going to find that in this book. Certainly not with Michael Weston - the man with the `charm' of a continental playboy. (I have a whole lot more names galloping across my eyes, and none of them so nice). If you have read my review of book one, you will know that I read these books weeks ago and I have tried sitting down close to ten times now to get these reviews out of my mind and onto paper. This book was the one I knew would be the hardest. I simultaneously loved and loathed this book.I loved the writing, I loved the way Ms Ward drew me in to this series, and this book and made it un-put-down-able. It was like a wreck. You know, one you don't want to look at, but you are rubbernecking because you MUST see. But what I loved the most is that this book did something for me that none of the other BDSM books have done previously. It made me see that not all D/S relationships are healthy, or where the Masters pretend to put their own pleasure first when really the aim of their game is putting the submissive wholly on a pedestal and truly giving them what they desire/need before taking for themselves."Sometimes life is a stingy bitch and won't give you a single thing you want. And sometimes, life opens up and showers you with riches you never dared dream of getting."I desperately wanted Nonnie to get what she was after, and the sad part for me was that she felt she had. I saw the warning signs and I tried shaking her. Truly I did. This was that book that I felt so connected with the story that I was part of it, and it was my right, no, responsibility to slap some sense into her and see that the;BITE + NON-DATE + SPOONS + TERROR TUNES + HOOD + AUCTION + BEING DESERTED+ = BADDDDD NEWSSSSS"I felt like a broken doll, tossed in an unwanted heap."The part I loathed was how Michael changed Nonnie. How he turned her from this woman who was determined to be her own woman and not be treated as a door mat came to feel that this torture and belittlement was a way of being shown love, and in fact, that perhaps continually believed that it was possibly her point of view that was screwy and not his.I read The Playboys Proposition in one sitting and didn't really breathe deeply until she got in that lift and rode it to the bottom, where she opened her eyes and realized I was right all along. I wanted to cry alongside of her, but I knew that she has spirit. Nothing gets our Nonnie down for long. I'm off to write my review for His Name Is Sir and I can tell you, it was hella hawt with a twist that I definitely didn't see coming. Make sure you take the time to read book 3!