Review: A little less enthusiastic about the format, now - contains spoilers.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 30, 2014
I have really enjoyed this series, really. I gave 5 stars to the first 3 installments. I was pretty eagerly awaiting #4. Now I see there are going to be 7 installments, going out through the end of August. Is #7 the end? At that point, I will have paid almost $21 for an ebook, IF it is the end. I am not sure my interest will be sustained until the end of August.After reading #4, which was good, but really was a story format repeat of the last one. Lilly really gained no momentum in finding out more about Jeremy, other than a childhood book and a Yale newspaper, which showed that Jeremy has been planning her capture for a while...but not exactly a showstopper.  It is more of the same, Lilly makes NO progress and Jeremy inflicts some vile punishment or activity on Lilly, because of some perceived slight, or quite simply, because he can.  At this point, some of his actiions and behaviors point more to psychosis or at the very least a sociopathic personality disorder where he feels absolutely no emphathy for others or remorse for his actions.  I am doubting his redeemability, and questioning if any woman could ever have and sustain a loving and trusting relationship with him...if that is where the story is going.I can't imagine what Lilly has done, or represents that deserves what is happening to her, unless, as I said before, he is truly mentally ill.  That is not an alpha male, hero that I can ever relate to .Lilly is understandably confused - drawn to him, attracted to him, and compliant , but at other times repelled and loathing him.  By the end of this installment she has made NO headway, except to be forced to face further depths of humiliation and , once again, another cliffhanger...facing more punishment.  Lilly does remain a strong, likeable character, coping her best under very dire circumstances.Having said that I did gobble it up, like M&Ms; in a bowl..and finished in about an hour and will re-read this as I have all of the other installments.  And, I am invested enough in this story to, probably buy each new piece as it comes out.  But the slow pace leading to multiple more installments is not sitting well and I probably will stop recommending it, mainly because of the price and the fact that I am not sure when it will end and after how much money.I wish Ms. Edwards would just make us wait, maybe a little longer and publish all of the rest of it in one piece, or maybe the entire story in one piece and charge a flat rate.  I would even pay a little more than the usual ebook novel to get it in one book and not have to go through the continual rise and fall of each section and then have to wait more time for the next.