Review: Terrible plotline, zero editing, intense swearing, capitalized dialogue. What else could you possibly wish for?
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 24, 2014
Okay,This is the first time I review a book, because even I have a bottom line (no pun intended).I bought this out of curiosity, because while the story premise sounded risky at best, it had tons of great reviews, so I assumed that the author had masterfully overcome an overly cheesy plotline to produce a chef d'oeuvre.That didn't happen.Before I discuss the story and its characters, I'd like to mention that this book apparently received no critiquing and no editing whatsoever, and it shows.There are tons of grammatical / misuse of tense / spelling errors issues, and it seems that no one took the time to re-read the book and offer constructive criticism on pace, clarity, POV aspects and fluidity of the narration. Some plot elements are barely outlined, others end up being hammered into the reader's head through repetitive paragraphs.The F word is used more or less 250 times, according to my kindle: at this point, it loses all of it's strength and becomes a crutch word.Equally cringe-worthy is the unwarranted use of capitals and long guttural 'sounds' meant to describe the character's thoughts, or their pleasure, or nothing at all.Practical example: " 'Oh God! Oh. AGHHHhhhhh!' She screams. " -> Note that single "Oh." with a period, like she paused in the middle of her throes.Further example: "F***! F***! AGHHHHH!" -> This is the male character reaching bliss in the same scene, a paragraph later. All caps indicate to the reader that it was really great.A couple of paragraphs later, again, the male hero interrupts his narrator with this single paragraph: "F****!" --> I thought some sort of major event/crisis had just occured. Nope turns out he's just looking at heroine.Now the story.Blaire is a kind and strikingly beautiful stripper but she's also a shy virgin forced to strip to pay for the surgery that will save her dying mother.If you have read this tagline and bought the book like i have, you *cannot* be saved.Jaxxon is basically a selfish, sick, self-entitled millionaire, with a knack for psychological and physical violence, as well as demeaning his partners. No, I'm not talking about BDSM, this story has nothing to do with BDSM, it's about prostitution and social submission.Blaire is sweet but poor, thank God, there's a rich Prince Charming waiting for her: all she has to do is turn off her brain, her ego, and flush her dignity down the drain, because let's face it, he's a real Alpha Male (Baby!) and she's got a gorgeous body and ... Well that's it, here's your love story.Jaxxon buys Blaire, who desperately needs the money, tortures her, explores the depths of his own sick mind, swears a lot in capital letters, and ultimately figures he's madly in love with her.In a classic demonstration of tell-don't-show, the author insists that there's a secret, intimate, quasi-mystic connection between Jaxxon and Blaire. Not much will actually back this theory, save for Jaxxon adamantly stating that such connection exists, especially after he's done deflowering the heroine in a scene that looks like rape, smells like rape, tastes like rape, but isn't rapen since she got paid. God. Why did I read this?After more and more cringe-worthy sex scenes, emotional and physical abuse of Blaire, and a tea-spoon of humiliation on top, Jaxxon will experience an epiphany, become a good guy and we get a remarkably linear (in its literary style) ending, in which Blaire explains that she's now married to the most perfect man in the universe, that her mom is doing great, that she works for Jaxxon and he has sex with her everywhere in his office building because that's what assistants are for (I did not make up this explanation, it's written in the book).Bam! Sorry, BAM! Happy ending.I can think of many other atrocious lines and details, but I think I'm done here. With this review, and this book.