Review: Intriguing story line ... terrible execution, but it has potential.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 4, 2013
I was asked to read "Patriotic Whore" for an honest review by the author.  I'll start with I am very stingy with my stars and my reviews.The story line for this book was very intriguing ... a training program for international spies of each gender with various sexual tastes.  I thought it was a different idea for an erotic book.  The beautiful  dominant billionaire and virginal submissive concept is starting to get a little old and repetitive.  Unfortunately, the execution of this story was terrible.  The author used a lot of "text" shorthand throughout the story.  I found it distracting and very annoying.  When I'm reading a book I don't want to decipher or stop to think "what does that mean."  You could truly picture Blaire speaking and acting throughout the story - very Reese Witherspoon-esque in Legally Blonde.  I found Blaire's character very week and not to what I thought a spy should be.  She seemed like a typical depiction of a dumb blonde high school popular cheerleader - like Varsity Blues or Friday Night Lights.  She did not seem to be someone who could out smart or out sex terrorists.  Blaire was supposed to be a southern bell.  More often then not her "lingo" sounded like she was from gun slinging south central LA.  To me it almost seemed like Mr. Kandish was writing a screenplay rather than a book.  I did like the twist at the end.  Honestly, that was the best part of the story.  I wish Mr. Kadish had written more of what happened after spy school and less of the "text" shorthand to the story.I think there is potential for this story.  An erotica spy novel is probably right up my alley - Daniel Silva meets EL James.  It would definitely be something very different from what is out there right now.  "Patriotic Whore" requires quite a bit of editing, polishing, and clean up to become that type of novel.