Review: This really grew on me
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 13, 2014
If you're like me, you might think "Oh man, not another billionaire book."  However, this first installment avoids too many of the tired tropes of the billionaire subgenre and it's actually a very fun read.Unlike many other reviewers, this is the first work by Babylon that I've read (apparently this is the story of a supporting character from another series).  Lizzie is a driven and beautiful college student.  She pays the bills by being a paid companion (with limited sexual services) at a local sex club.  Honestly, I had a bit of trouble buying this part of the story -- I'm not sure what southwestern town this is supposed to be set in, but the idea that there were so many men willing to pay out the ear to just hang out with beautiful women -- nothing else -- seemed a bit far-fetched.  Whatever, fiction!  I'm rolling with it.Following an amazing experience with the head of the club, she's hung up on him.  But two other men are thrown in her path.  Babylon has a flair for scenes so hot you might need to fan yourself off and I love that this book explores sadism in detail.  There is a lot of BDSM-lite out there and I appreciate her striving to present something else.  By the end of this first installment, there's a love triangle that is truly interesting and I can't wait to see where it goes.Parts of this book, mostly in the beginning, annoyed me for reasons that I can't really articulate.  I think it was a little too rah-rah, "go girl!" with scenes of guys getting tased and I hope we aren't going to get in depth descriptions of every single girly drink that Lizzie drinks throughout the series.  When I got into the story, these annoyances faded away and I was just pulled into it.