Review: Not For the Faint of Heart
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 27, 2013
This book was recommended to me as a great dark erotic read when I was whining about wanting a great dark erotic read. But for me, there is no eroticism here. There is, however, violence and rape, which is much too raw and realistic for me to see as erotic. The power that the not-quite hero (anti-hero?) took from the heroine in their sexual exchanges (if you can call rape “a sexual exchange” . . . I can feel the “NO, YOU CAN’T”s directed at me) involved was not erotic – it was meant to belittle, to cow, to break. The submission on the heroine’s part wasn’t erotic either – it was her biding her time, calculating, surviving.This story is not for the faint of heart. There is no romance or redemption. No light coming out of the dark.For those who enjoy psychological thrillers, this might be a great read. But for me, it was too dark and too deep into the workings of the perverted (in a bad way) human mind.I just think that there’s enough horror in real life and I don’t want to come away from a book, which I want to be a distraction from the real world, feeling bleak and empty. And that’s how I felt after reading this book.Confession time – I had to skip around some places cause it was just too much for me. So I didn’t read the whole book through. But I did read the end, so I did finish it. I can honestly say that I will never pick it up to revisit what I might have missed.