Review: It should be titled Madeleine lies and cheats.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 4, 2014
SPOILER ALERT!!!!! IN THIS REVIEW I REVEAL IMPORTANT PLOT TWISTS AND RESOLUTIONS THAT YOU MAY NOT WANT TO KNOW BEFORE READING THE BOOK.Max Sebastian has every right to plot his story in any way. This book departs from the direction of the first two books drastically from a relationship perspective. It would have been a better book if Max would have addressed this marital rift in the story and had the husband react and act negatively to her lies and cheating.It the first two installments the couple is exploring ways for Madeleine to bring more excitement and fun to her life. He stood by and supported her for years while she endured severe depression. He was encouraging her to explore this pathway to excitement and higher self esteem within the context of their marriage. Now in book three we learn that without discussion or agreement she has been having sex behind his back while fabricating lies to explain that she was doing something different during that time. His fantasy was to have her have sex with other men and share the experience with him. She was constantly telling him that she was moving that way. Her fantasy, however, was to have affairs without his knowledge or envolvement, outside of their marital agreements as she lied to him about it.This is erotica and negative character reactions to sexual activity may be taboo within the genre. However, Max Sebastian, along with a few others, are exploring more depth in character development and this would have been a perfect time for the husband, given the history of battling depression, to be severely hurt and withdrawn as the result of her actions to take her affair outside of the context of their marriage.So, I give five stars to books one and two. I found my disappointment in Madeleine too distracting to give book three more than three stars.