Review: Still Thinking of It...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 21, 2013
After plowing through two hours of selections on what book to read next, I stumbled onto 'Baby Girl Book 1 (The Erik Ead Series)'.Let me go on record as saying, this is not my kind of book.  Not the kind of book I would seek out.  Crap, I didn't even read the Fifty Shades stuff, for goodness sakes!But, this.Holy cow.This.First to Hildreth and Baldus, thank you. Thank you for taking the time to explain what your chars were thinking, had experienced and had learned.  And to provide a path of learning that all of us could verify (the references to the texts of others, i.e., Jung, etc.) was brilliant!There were so many layers to Erik and Kelli's story, their interactions that I was glued to my Ken-doll, never noticing the meter at the bottom of my screen until I was taken to the 'rate' page.  Which I stared at, blinking in disbelief that the book was over.The story was loving even though it challenged me at almost every turn.  It was erotic but no more so than the stuff I write (women's contemporary fiction)...so why did it 'seem' to have a tension my scenes don't have?  Your chars were amazing, even the ancillary ones and I will be one of the first in line for the next book in the series.I bet you can guess which book I had to download next, right?  Broken People.My only criticism, the only thing I would love to see changed?  Dudes.  You need an editor.  Tenses change, wrong words used, etc.  Yeah, we all go through it.  But, honestly, for this work...damn.  You gotta do it.  You have created beauty.  Now all you need to do is shine that puppy up.I definitely recommend this book to others, but to be clear.  This is not a easy read.  It is not a happy-go-lucky romance.  This is the kind of story that makes you look at yourself, your interactions in both the love and relationship arenas and wonder.But, then, women have always been full of curosity, right?  Remember, it all started with Eve and her 'what if'...