Review: There Are No Consequences
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2014
I bought the trilogy after scanning some of the reviews. Honestly, I don't know what to say about the other people who've read the entire series and loved it. I can't finish it. I got through hundreds of pages of Consequences, then a quarter of the way into Truth. I'm done. I hoped that Clare would get strong and fight back. I thought that's where Truth was headed. And maybe the series eventually gets there but the story isn't just dark, it's long and awkward? Yes Romig is good writer, yes Truth starts well.Sadly, for me the story goes into the crapper pretty fast. Clare is back where she was in the first book. (Hours of reading I can never get back). Yes Clare the  college educated, independant, attractive, meteorolgist who after going through hell seems in charge of her life, recovering from being framed, imprisoned and previously raped and beaten has gone back to the man who destroyed her. For me this goes way beyond Stockholm syndrome. Clare actually resents her sister and friends trying to protect her against this maniac!I stopped reading and deleted the book when I read Clare was going back to the Iowa mansion where she was held captive, raped and tormented. Tony is a sick, abusive, rapist/murderer/kidnapper--but Clare loves him. He beats her, humiliates her, threatens her friends and family, kills her parents, destroys lives daily-yet after going to prison for a false conviction of attempted murder-of him! she ultimately returns to him and gives up all control. The story is crazy and unbelievable.Don't expect Clare to morph into a strong solid heroine with Tony as the alpha male who will do anything for her in the end. Not happening. Tony is twisted beyond belief and I'm thinking the author is delving into an area that is gratuitously dark with no chance of a HEA. We are talking literally HUNDREDS of pages per book with a heroine you want to root for but can't and a Tony who should have gotten his own brutal Consequences long ago. There is nothing redeemable about his character and Clare is simply tragic.I read that a companion book explaining Tony's behavior from his point of view is out there as well. I'll pass. Are we supposed to believe there is an acceptable reason for him using his billionaire status to viciously victimize whomever he likes? Sorry, if Romig couldn't get it done in the first 3 books, rougly 900+pages,there is no way I am signing on for more angst and cruelty. Not even if it were free.