Review: Abuse is NEVER okay!!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2014
When I read the synopsis of this book I was really looking forward to reading it.  It sounded like just the kind of drama I like in my stories.  Unfortunately it was a lot different than it was described.Yes, Sadie was a chef who went to work for Heath, a model who was used to having people fawn over him.  Yes, Heath was attracted to Sadie and made it obvious.  What you don't get from the description of the book is that Sadie was attracted to Heath as well and within a week she was rolling around on the ground with him.  Right after that happened Heath was in a bad car accident and had both legs and one arm in casts.  Sadie stayed in his house to take care of him but within a few days she was giving him a hand job when she was supposed to be washing him (and not at his request, it was her own idea and she never asked him if it was okay with him!).  From there it escalated quickly until she was having sex with him in his bed or his wheelchair almost every night but was upset with herself about wanting it so would take it out on him.  She was constantly verbally abusing him to the point where I was cringing, wondering why he would take that crap from anyone.  Sadie believed Heath was superficial and was always judging him, in her mind and out loud, but still getting down and dirty with him every chance she got.  It was fairly early in the book when Heath explained his history and that made me feel even worse for him because he just took what she gave him but never treated her poorly.I have a huge problem with domestic violence when it's a female doing it to a male.  I'm not saying it's okay when a man does it to a woman, just don't like that it's considered acceptable (even funny) when it's female to male.  I can see now that I have a huge problem with verbal abuse because if the roles were reversed in this book, the main storyline would probably be about her getting herself out of the bad situation she was in.  As it stands this book came across as the author believing it was okay for Sadie to treat Heath so horribly and that completely ruined it for me.