Review: I'll Never Read It Again
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 23, 2013
***WARNING SPOILER ALERT***Noelle was treated like crap for most of the book.  Her mother died when she was eight and she was taken in by a vicious aunt who treated her as if she were sub-human.  Her cousin Simone always had her back even suffering backlash from her mother. In one of Noelle's down moments, which occur more often than not, she let an art professor's criticism drive her out of school.  It was at that weak moment that she met James at a gym; she's immediately captivated and so is he.I really don't understand Noelle's attraction to James because he wasn't likeable.  He's attracted to her innocence and makes her an indecent proposal to become his mistress.  I thought he treated her more like a sex toy, because most men would have more feeling for a one-night stand than James had for Noelle.  I didn't understand why Noelle was so enamored with James; he wasn't seductive or charming, just very cruel.  So James treats Noelle like dog crap for a year:  she's not allowed to have visitors, she's not allowed to out unless it's to shop, she's supposed to sit there in her luxury apartment and wait for him to show up.  Finally, James went too far, and Noelle finally got the courage to leave him.James sees the error of his ways and he realizes that he loves Noelle, at the 71% Noelle finally tells James to go to hell.  Eventually she forgives him and she takes him back.  My problem with this story is the ending; there is no way in the world she should have taken him back.  James had no redeeming qualities, he was selfish and all about himself.This is a good story; however, I will never read it again.  The reason I could never read this story again because there are no funny, sexy, or loveable moments that I want to re-read.  Noelle finally finds her place in the world when she opens the bakery with her partner Paul, but she didn't grow enough as a person to realize that James isn't a good man and not worthy of her.  I'm sure others will disagree, but I would have liked the story better if she had ended up with Paul, James's ex-assistant.  Paul however, falls for Simone instead.