Review: Pleasantly suprised
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 11, 2014
I was concerned that the story would be too dark or depressing to me based on a few of the reviews and the authors other books.  I was pleasantly surprised.  It wasn’t.  The book was not heavily into BSDM but rather lightly touching on it. I liked that the book had the forbidden romance element to the story.SPOILERS: I loved that the book had a HEA, the H & h end up together.  It is a stand-alone novel, which I am grateful for.  I am so sick of reading books in parts and have recently refused to read books that leaving the ending with a will be continued in book 2.  The H initially comes across as a hard man engaged in illegal activities including drugs and sex slaves but gradually changes over the course of the novel, becoming a better person because of his love for the h.  There is a period of time that the H and h are separated after they became a couple. I was concerned that the H would not be able to be faithful to the h during that time, based on his upbringing of training sex slaves and how he was prior to being with her.  I was happy to read that he was while they were apart. Admittedly one time they were together involved another woman, which I could have done without.  This scene involved the h and the OW (sex slave) being intimate with each other.  Again, I could have skipped that part but strangely enough, it was not just a gratuitous scene.  It helped the h and the OW bond.  I was happy that there was no further s-xual involvement between the two but rather that they became friends.  The story was entertaining and not a typical romance.  The author did a good job and I am now willing to take the plunge and read another one of her books.