Review: Disturbing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 5, 2014
I'm having a hard time even giving three stars for this book. Generally when I read a book that has a heroine that I can't stand I don't feel bad for giving it a lower rating. In this case my three stars are given for the fact that I wanted to finish the book and it was written well.Slut shaming is pretty common in books these days, but what was different in this book was that most of the slut shaming was coming from the heroine and directed at herself. I never could fully understand her reasoning for feeling the way that she did about herself. It was as if the heroine wanted to be a victim of something. Her mom was known as a gold digger and had been married 7 times. Some of the men she had brought into her daughter's life had been pervy bastards. Despite a couple of close calls the heroine managed to free herself from the unimaginable from these step dads. She decides that she wants to rid herself of her virginity on her terms, because apparently it is her innocence that draws these men to her like a moth to a flame. At one time the heroine even mentions that she can tell by the way her step dad is looking at her that he is imagining himself inside her. WTF?Now we get to the part when stuff goes downhill and the reader gets to see just how selfish and manipulative this heroine is. She convinces her best friend whom she's known all her life to rid her of her virginity. He feels uncomfortable about it and doesn't want to use her in that way because he loves her. She doesn't care about that though and when she threatens him to get what she needs by someone else he gives in. She treats him like crap for years by making sure that he knows that he is nothing more than a f- buddy. He loves her though and is willing to accept what he can get. That's all I can say without spoiling the book.I understand what the author was trying to do when she took the road that she did later on in the book with the heroine and her best friend. I understand but I don't buy it and that's what pissed me off. Like I said before this heroine comes off as someone who wants to be a victim and it felt as though her manipulative self was sighing with relief when she got her wish. It pains me to even think that way.