Review: Neverending, Repetitive Sex
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 30, 2014
-- SPOILER ALERT!!! --I decided to give this book a chance after reading so many of the four and five star reviews the novel garnered. Unfortunately, I’m going to have to disagree with their assessment as my take on it was completely different from theirs.The two protagonists at the heart of the story is Russell (former Navy SEAL), and Susan (real name Lacey) who’s in hiding from the Russian mob. This was a good story. It’s just too bad it reads like a novella. Sure it says “369” pages, but instead of writing an in-depth story of what was outlined in the synopsis, the author gives the readers pages upon pages, chapters upon chapters of Russell and Susan having sex. Lots and lots and lots of sex. Don’t get me wrong, the sex is quite hot and sizzling, but holy crap! 60% (if not more) of the novel is just about them going at it like rabbits. Who’s kidding who? The rabbits were taking lessons from them. There’s so much sex it eventually became boring and redundant. Like many others I love well-written, sizzling, scorching hot sexcapades, but there’s only so much I can take. After a while I found myself quickly skimming thru it, eventually skipping pages altogether. Could you blame me? Hell, I lost count of the number of times Susan yelled “Oh.”“Oh, Russell, oh my God!”“Russell! Oh, oh my God, Russell!“Russell, oh, God, oh, my God.”“Russell…oh…oh…Russell!”“Oh my God, yes. God, Russell!”“Oh, Russell, that feels so good,”“Oh, Russell, there. Oh, there.”“Oh, God…so good… Don’t stop, Russell, don’t stop.”You get the picture. Now I’ve heard of alpha males who’ve had long lasting hard-ons. However, this alpha male takes the cake as he’s got a hard-on 24/7 (no joke). Even after he’s had one, two, and even three orgasms, he’s still hard. He would have to be given that Susan was having orgasms in the double-digits in just one day.The story is told from several POV’s which I love. However, it was a little hard at times to figure out exactly whose POV I was reading as it switched back and forth between Susan and Russell without any markings, title, name, or new chapter to indicate the switch. At one point I’m reading the assassin’s POV and in the blink-of-an-eye it switched to Susan’s.There were some factors of the novel that didn’t make any sense to me. Susan’s a structural engineer, so why does she have such a problem installing a lock correctly? She even had it upside down. Hello?? To be qualified as a structural engineer she would’ve had to have been a college graduate which means she worked as a structural engineer before she went into hiding. If that’s the case, why would the FBI allow her to work in the exact same capacity when they’re trying to hide her? Also, it’s hard to believe that the FBI would place her in Troy, Montana, home to a couple of former Navy SEALS, as they’d have done their research to make sure she was completely safe and her identity secured, especially when her own father was a retired Navy SEAL who trained others.I’d like to know exactly how the assassin located Susan. Who told him? How did he know where she worked? Once he knew where she lived, why did he wait weeks and weeks to kill her when she was alone? Instead he waits for Russell to return home before he starts shooting.Now I may have not enjoyed this novel all that much, but I’m not going to tell you to read it or not. I’ll just leave it up your discretion. Will I read book 2? I’m going to have to say thanks, but no thanks.