Review: I feel for the man...I'm just not sure what I feel
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 24, 2014
I've gotta put this one close to the middle of the road for me. When I saw it was about a hot male supermodel that owned a kink club, I expected something totally different than what I got. Not that that's a bad thing, necessarily. The book just didn't flow well for the way I read. It took me 4 days to get through this book - which is a long time for me lately.I never fell in love with the main characters and there just seemed to always be chunks missing from the story that would be beneficial to know as a reader. There are more twists and confusion than I thought possible and the story doesn't come close to concluding at the end of the book. I realize that this was a "Book 1", but I expected some sort of resolution to any one of the open twists. I feel like Sabastian/Bash/Bassy is being played by way too many people in this story, and I'm not real comfortable with that idea for some reason. He's a smart, successful, wealthy man with a lot of connections so there must be some type of enormous conspiracy for me to find the entire thing believable. It's gotta be more than something as simple as a woman scorned. I think that Mariss/Red is a true victim in the grand scheme of things and I want her to be. I was not a fan of Sabastian's in the beginning - or for most of the book for that matter. I do believe that he has fallen in love with Mariss (and vice versa), but I have a feeling that her husband is behind a lot more of the goings on than he appears to be. The next book could shed a lot of light on all of the questions in my head, but I'm not really sure that I want to go there. My curiosity is piqued and the question now is by how much? Many of the sex scenes were fairly hot. There is a lot that could be solved if Mariss, the husband (Holden) and Bassy could come together as a permenant trio and just share the love, but I don't see that ever happening. If I do opt to pick up the next book, I hope to see more of the secondary characters that I grew to care for - Juliet, Marsha and even Eloise and Paul (I don't know why but they are just memorable). I was glad for the read but just don't know what to do with the information now.