Review: UGH!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 4, 2014
Lynda Chance is on my "to be watched list" for authors.  But this one I highly recommend you NOT read.  I am so upset with the male lead (I can't bring myself to call him a hero) and I'm just 50% into the book BUT he does something so classless, it is truly appalling and for the first time, I feel compelled to write a review asap to warn folks in advance.Spoilers following so that I can say exactly why I'm up in arms:This is not like the prenup of "An Indecent Proposal" or a handshake agreement as in the "Mistress Mistake."  The male lead Zach involves three other lawyers to draw up an explicit mistress contract and they are present while the contract is reviewed with her.  Conditions such as she needs to be free of STDs, he won't insist on a menage, if at any time she displeased him he could drop her.  WTH!  This is not alpha like behavior but an a-hole who wants his way so badly he doesn't care how much he humiliates her in front of others.  This is beyond coercion and just cruel.  I am so disappointed at how insensitive Zach is.  This isn't cool or admirable behavior and I'm also disappointed that the heroine a) doesn't tell him to take a hike, b) kind of wish she had picked a higher paying career (no offense to teaching which is a very noble profession) so that she wasn't so vulnerable, c) she wasn't such a martyr and got Josh involved to help solve the loan issue (WTH does she think it's all on her shoulders to resolve?).Obviously I'm disappointed and really hope this is an aberration from Chance's usual wonderful alpha heroes which Zach certainly is not.