Review: Repulsive to say the least!!!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 19, 2013
Everyone has their own definition of what makes a story a great book. What I think of this story makes me feel like a minority amongst the sea of the reviewers gushing and the overwhelming 5 star reviews.I am a big fan of Ms. Alessandra Torre, so far all the books I've read of hers are exceedingly good. She has an incredible talent and a great imaginative mind that captures the readers in awe. Her writing style is bold, different but brilliant and I LOVE it! It is for this reason and the astounding rave reviews it has received that I was so excited and couldn't wait to read it, only to be stunned to find the content and the plot repulsive. I couldn't fathom what part of Nathan's character some reviewers find amazing, the old saying "what one man's trash is another man's treasure" easily come to mind. How can a pig of man like Nathan Dumont and a slut like Candy can be called romantic and amazing story is beyond me! This disgusting man only got to be like a normal person at the last remaining 18% of the book, the rest he was indecent and a complete jerk. Insisting to have sex in the open while his bodyguards are there watching made me cringed. The author's attempt to redeem Nathan's character in the last few pages doesn't hold merit, the bottom line is, Nathan treated Candy lower than dirt.Candace/Candy has been a stripper in a seedy men's club and although she has a bachelors degree, oddly she chose to be one and has been a stripper for three years, when she was singly picked by Nathan Dumont. A handsome sophisticated self made millionaire who's idea of having sexual satisfaction is to have Candy perform for him and suck him while his bodyguards watches. One night he pays the club's owner an extra amount of money so he can take her out of the club, orders her to give him a blow job in the back of the limo, then drugs her, takes her to his home, orders her to strip, then had sex with her again and insist they do the nasty in front of his bodyguards, they will have to be present each and every time, standing there watching. The next morning he makes an incredulous offer to Candace to marry him in papers only, in turn he'll foot the bill of her ailing father's hospital care and up keep. He doesn't give her money but a monitored  and controlled credit card to use. However, she's never allowed to sleep or even stay in the main house with him, she's prohibited to spend time there unless he's screwing her. She can only stay and live in the guest house which walls are made of glass, where everyone and anyone can see her doing anything and everything, including while having sex with Nathan Dumont. She is summoned to the main house by one of his guards whenever he's feeling horny ( which is frequent ) and again, sex her up while his guards are watching. Anytime and every time they have sex, his bodyguards or anyone around gets to watch, how SICK is that? The fact that this has received a staggering rave reviews is very disturbing! No self respecting decent man would have sex while his whole staff are in the same room watching.Candy has a college degree but ended up being a stripper, she says it pays her bills and keeps her off the street. So it doesn't make any real sense for her to be running behind the rent of a tiny room in an unsavory neighborhood every time it's due. She could barely make both ends meet, it defies the logic on her reason why she chose to be a stripper. Candy says she doesn't ever do the nasty with clubs clients, the most she's done is give them a lap dance or a hand job, yet she went with Nathan Dumont easily and willingly, have had sex with him in the open where his bodyguards watches. She had had sex with Drew, Nathan's right hand man more than once, then claims she's fallen in love with Nathan while obsessing and thinking about Drew, how perverse!Nathan's insistence on having them photographed when they attend functions as a happy loving couple is to flash out his over jealous ex fiancee out from hiding, who run out on him taking 50 million of his dollars. He'll do anything and use Candy in all ways he can to get his ex fiancee back, the only love of his life.So Nathan and Candy continues having sex in the presence of all the bodyguards around, he would kick her out of the main house and sends her back to the glass guest house when he's done with her. And he has the guts and audacity to tell her he's purposely degrading and humiliating her so she doesn't get any wrong ideas and form any attachment to him. I guess to others, as long as the story has an HEA, it didn't really matter how sleazy and low life the hero is. Such as Nathan Dumont who pandered his own wife services, to his business associate who asked to find him a whore for his own sexual pleasure, Nathan tells him no need to look for one since Candy is a great f***! he offered Candy's services.**spoiler** He ordered her to suck this man's penis in the back of the limo, while he and his bodyguards watched, including his right hand man Drew, whom Candy has been having sex with.**spoiler** My GOSH! how much more SICK can this plot gets? It's OBSCENE! I guess some reviewers who rated this story "AWESOME" and "WONDERFUL", didn't matter how low and degrading he's treated Candy, as long as in the last few pages the hero gets the heroine and they end up together, it didn't really matter how sleazy, no moral values and indecent the hero is. I was so repulsed of the plot I returned this book for a full refund!