Review: Unlikely on many levels...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 16, 2013
That this was written by a man explains many things.Such as the fact that rape and sexual abuse and exploitation of a young girl and then woman is so completely unrealistically portrayed as not a big deal in the scheme of things.That was really hard to swallow from the start, but I soldiered through it because I was intrigued by the story and wondered where it was going.It was full of vividly described, viciously violent abuse - mostly sexual but just plain violence too.Some of the characters were so nasty with no redeeming features yet the heroine enjoyed the sexual interactions with them...also mind-boggling. The hero had very few to no heroic qualities.I didn't find him at all appealing or deserving of love and devotion.Not that the heroine was all that much better...In the end, I was sorry I wasted the time on finishing it. But I guess I do have to give the author kudos for making me want to finish it despite all the many things that made me dislike it. He has a way of keeping you engaged despite everything - pretty amazing really. That is a very good quality and should be used for good and not evil :-))Couldn't recommend this to anyone - except perhaps to aspiring authors as an example of what NOT to do.