Review: Perplexing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 5, 2014
Domino Effect by Jill Elaine Hughes has been a bit perplexing for me to rate since it is not what I usually read. I found the subject matter and the handling of it to be somewhat disturbing to my nave nature. Case in point, Nancy is a wholesome college student who has little experience with the opposite sex but is a worldly enough to be a freelance journalist. She is so drawn to Peter Rostovich that she is ready to jump into bondage (I know, I know, it’s the last rage). Then add in art show raided by police as  porn,  kidnapping, sex trafficking, Russian mob, blood sport, it all becomes too extreme to believe. However what was most disturbing was the sexual fantasies than Nancy has during the kidnapping, etc. which supposedly is tied to helping her surviving but seemed to be written more for titillating the reader. I do not believe these would be the thoughts of a kidnap victim. The end of this book is a major cliffhanger, does Nancy made it back to the US? You know who some of the bad guys are but many questions about others, including Rostovich. And yes, I want to know the answers to these questions, which is the other part of the problem with rating this book.That would be how well this plot is written – which is very, very well. Jill Elaine Hughes must be a gifted writer to make all this intriguing so that the reader wants to finish the book no matter how unbelievable it is. Rating - 1.5 stars for plot and 4+ stars for writing.Copy provided by NetGalley for an honest review.