Review: This is about a man who excuse his cheating by drinking habits
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 07 21, 2013
WARNING/Spoilers/SWEARING**************************Cheating is wrong...especially when is justified by alcoholism... OK I CHEATED BUT I WAS DRUNK SO ITS OK AND THAT DON'T REALLY COUNT!I have to be honestly brutal with my review.. exactly as the author was honestly brutal about the cheating scenes..My god the main lead Drake started intimate relationship with Lana and took her virginity not even remembering because he was too f**** drunk! Lana is the love of his life... still he went to a party and hook up with some woman... for the life of me I cannot understand his behaviour if he loves Lana why then hooking up with that woman????... he was not drunk all the time so there was a point where he could prevent it from happening.. but no he took her to his hotel room where only wall separated Lana's room from his room... so you can imagine what happened.... I actually had tears in my eyes.. it hurt me so much to have to read that part when Lana heard them bagging against the wall and hearing them moaning and him groaning whilst performing sex! "He was f**** her against the door that separated their rooms and that happened one day after he took her virginity! I actually felt emotionally abused by the author by make this so cruel and playing with emotions at the readers expense! Drake said he did not remember anything but actually he did..."I was pretty sure that I had brought a girl back...with me last night, but couldn't remember her name or even what she looked like." (Kindle Loc. 1120)How hypocritical....he couldn't have been that drunk because surely he wouldn't have been able to "perform"??????? And then his dishonest response to Lana..when she told him about him banning that girl..."I'm sorry, Angel," I whispered. "I was drunk..." I knew being drunk didn't excuse any of it, yet drinking had always been my excuse"(Kindle Loc 1279)....WOW how convenient...It really pissed me of when that morning when he woke he realised it was one night stand, BUT HE HAD NO REMORSE, NO SENSE OF LOSS FOR WHAT HE DID, NO THOUGHTS THAT HE CHEATED ON LANA AND WASN'T INTENDING TO SAY ANYTHING...He just thought it did not count..He said nothing to her like nothing happened... If LANA did not hear them, he would never admit that to her... because he is a coward and thinks yeah I was drunk so I am justified and off the hook... AND TALK ABOUT HONESTY!!!!! It's true that some of these traits add hints of realism to the novel, but this book is a romance novel, hence its design is to inspire fantasy and a feeling of enjoyment, I felt none of this.Just as Lana said she could not wipe up the memory of him moaning whilst f**** the other women I wish I could just pretend it never happened whilst reading it, but the picture of him bagging that women against the wall I just could not get out of my mind... and every time I read about Drake I pictured him in that ugly scene and could only feel revulsion toward him. And if I foolishly hoped this book somehow could still redeem itself I was disillusioning myself.... The author just killed any hope I have had...Here it is: so what that he give up his drinking for Lana??? Apparently not for long... Because the author took all those good qualities away by allowing him cheat on her again it really damages all the supposition and joy the reader feels in his assumption that Drake really has changed so we can FINALLY RESPECT HIM AND CARE FOR HIM AS A CHARACTER, but the credibility for the hero to redeem himself was taken away again as soon as we were introduce to another partying, drinking and cheating... the author keep forcing his childhood excuses for justifying his behaviour with drinking and etcetera, but HE DID NOT THINK ABOUT HIS PAST WHEN HE HAD SEX WITH THOSE OTHER WOMEN AND WHEN CHEATING ON HER, SO WHAT'S HIS EXCUSE??????? He was so drunk and could not remember anything but he was apparently not drunk enough... Because he did remember to put his d**k inside that woman...otherwise how he would have sex then????? He got angry over some guy disrespecting Lana, but did he respect her himself???? Obviously not.. otherwise he would not cheat on her again and not going to that party knowing damm well he would be drinking again an committing his cheating... just because she was not answering her cellphone for the whole day, what a lame excuse???????? And why Lana thinks she destroyed Drake's life by telling him that he took her virginity and did not remember anything because he was so drunk?????? He is the one that destroyed her... he weren't man enough to take care of his own responsibilities that put her in such a state that she nearly died from the loss of blood and lost their baby!!!!!! Its wrong for the author to make the victim a villain...WHY Lana has to be the bad guy and not Drake who is at fault here????? Its too bad that in reality women in abusive relationship blame themselves for doing nothing wrong and the bad guy continue his abuse! But for the author to use that against the victim is beyond acceptable!In my view This book did not accomplished what supposed to be a romance because actions speak louder than words so the author could not convince me that Drake really loved Lana because if a man you were in love with couldn't commit to you with body exclusively doesn't really love you so his words are empty... because in the real world the outcome based on the ugly experiences that Lana endured would not probably guarantee a HEA...but this book did accomplished one thing such as.... the reality that IF A MAN CHEATS ONCE IT WILL CHEAT AGAIN sooner or later if he possibly can, and that opportunity and deniability are the primary factors...it happens here when Drake cheated on Lana twice... the opportunity emerged and he took it and also his deniability of it by excusing himself immediately referring to alcohol and his drinking habits.. I will just summit up with what Lara said to confirm the reality... "I had forgiven Drake for that night in Vegas almost immediately, but it wasn't something that I would ever be able to forget..." and I agree with this a 100%