Review: Promised much, delivered less.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 17, 2012
1 1/2 STARS ROUNDED UP TO TWO FOR THIS ONE.I wanted to like this book. The premise was a good one for me - woman has abduction fantasies, needs them to be realistic, locked in car's toolbox which is picked up by repo man who appears he may be able to work with her fantasies in a more authentic fashion. One of my complaints is that hetero books often take a softly, softly approach because readers will be offended with things that happen to a female. This book promised to take things to a place that I sometimes want to go, but it failed to deliver.What I didn't like -1) Ember is way too trusting for BDSM with a man she's just met. Like ridiculously, dangerously trusting with a guy who is very strange and conflicted himself. She is co-dependent and sets subs and, in particular, women back 40 years. 2) Lucas is not particularly likeable or stable as a man, let alone as a supposed Dom. In my opinion he isn't a decent Dom, just a man releasing his pent-up frustrations by bossing people around. I wouldn't go near him with a 20 foot barge pole. 3) The brother, Matthew, was an annoying distraction, who went from bratty nutjob to (kind of) OK in 0-60 seconds. 4) Even the dog was obnoxious, down Daisy you stink. AND 5) Learning to Drown wins the worst editing of the decade award. I am not a writer, an editor or paid critic but the errors in this book were glaringly obvious to me. There were typos, grammatical errors and poorly formatted pages absolutely everywhere. It thoroughly slaughtered the flow of the book.What I liked -Hmmm. 1) The sex wasn't too bad. 2) The premise was good and, with better execution, could have been a very interesting book. 3) There is promise for dark works oustide of the standard hetero box with Sommer Marsden. 4) The cover was very appealing.Overall, Learning to Drown was a disappointing book. I don't know whether her other books are better....but an editor would bloody well help.