Review: Purchasing Manipulation
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 30, 2013
** spoiler alert **NetGalley free readI didn't hate it, but I didn't think it was okay either. This isn't really the fault of the writing. There just isn't enough of it there for me to give a real review of. It's the first part of a six part series of what should be a full novel. I hate that. Just write a full book. Don't drag it out for me to buy each piece and the series isn't even finished.I don't really know much about the characters. As in a typical short story or novella, I believe I would have sussed out more of who they were or their dynamics. But in this case, I know that Devon walked into her new apartment, which she was to share with her boyfriend, to hear her boyfriend having sex with someone. She such a "good girl" she won't even go in to confront him and the woman, because she feels she may apologize for interrupting. Hello! Sub much. I'm mean that statement alone makes her submissive. Then she immediately quites her job, packs her bags and leaves town so she won't be humiliated at work, where He also works.Then some random guy, who won't tell her much about him other than his first name approaches and sort of dominates her by way of just his personality, tells her to stay away from him, then promptly leaves her a business card saying if she needs a job go to this company. WHAT? She goes to the company gets the job, thinks she perceived as a whore in getting the job. How she didn't know that was going to happen is beyond me. Is humiliated and leaves only to have sex with the guy, who it turns out is the owner of the company, in the car before he promptly dismisses her. She could have been humiliated back in her old town at her old job.Now she's working at some aviation company in San Francisco. What happened to wanting to be a lawyer? We know practically nothing about Zach St. Brenton. Other than he picks up women in diners. Has a hard on, literally, for the frumpy Devon (which it seems all the women in the company look at her in shock that he seems to only have eyes for her) and he's rich because he own the company that's housed in a twenty-six floor building.You see how quickly I wrote that description? That's how long this story is. Again, I don't hate it but I don't like the manipulation of buying sections of a full story. Trilogy's or longer continuations of a series is one thing. This is just ridiculous. Won't read the rest.