Review: Disappointed with act 3.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2014
I gave it 4* because the trilogy is a wonderful piece of intelligent, slick, modern erotica.  I couldn't put it down, even at work .  These characters are so well-drawn, and it sucks you in.Which is why I'm disappointed as he!! with book three.  You become so invested in to both Hugo & Madeline that Sebastian managed to ruin both characters for me.  Hugo's fantasy is to watch... Not to be lied to repeatedly by a woman he worships.  Yet time and again his reaction to each new layer of deception is jealousy.. Followed in the next sentence by nausea, and in the next acceptance with "oh that's hot!"  Not only does this routine get boring, it caused me to totally lose respect for Hugo, and Madeline... I just began to see her as a lying whore by the end.  How is the reader supposed to believe she has any respect at all for Hugo?BillC's review is right on the money.  Much as I love Kenny Wright, he really missed an opportunity editing this.  The whole thing should've come crashing down at the end of "Plays" setting up the conflict of a shattered relationship in Vol 3 which would ultimately be repaired.  There should have been at least 3-5 chapters dealing with Hugo's sense of betrayal.  If you want to read a similar, but darker tale of how this would more realistically play out, read A Wife Gone Wild by Deanna Sodus.  Be warned... It is a very hot but not-so-happy-tail about what happens when a wife gets so self absorbed in her own fantasy that she jeopardizes the best thing that ever happened to her.I've never written a book review on Amazon, but I loved this novel.  I just think Sebastian really did the story a disservice in glossing over the serial dishonesty of the main character.