Review: Obscenely alarming!!!!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 11 14, 2012
Okay, so I wasn't quite sold on the first one but thought what the heck I'd give this a try as I was intrigued about the mystery behind Tresor's murder and the solid writing skills of the author.  This of course IMO was in hopes of this book redeeming itself from its predecessor.  Boy was I WRONG!  Please if you don't want to know any details of the book please do not continue to read.*****SPOILER ALERT*****What kind of message is the author trying to convey here because I don't feel it is right in NO circumstances whether these people the "Kriegers" are rich, powerful or entitled get off by treating people less than human and expect people around them to accept their feeble excuses or negligible attitude.  These people are deranged and I find it very insulting to use the guise of the BDSM lifestyle to write such unbelievable trash and pass it off as a romance of sort.  After Aurielie is brutally raped by none other than Rory's half-brother/cousin (which in itself should tell you there's seriously something wrong with the characterization this author created) I could not continue to read this anymore.  Being returned IMMEDIATELY!  I mean seriously Severin his twin knew what was about to happen and allowed it but NOT only that he threw it in Rory's face.  What kind of sick twisted relationship is that and how do you find any of these characters (whether Severin is a secondary character or not) redeemable.  I get it they've used women in the past but seriously how is this supposed to make me the reader find this okay?!!!  I'm all for the anti-hero male characters but COME ON SERIOUSLY?!!!Okay, back to my rant.  So, I stomached a few more paragraphs after Aurielie has recovered from her coma to realize all that Karl has done to her only to have it seem like it was just no big deal? What the heck?!!  They still planned to go to his parents' home to celebrate the holidays when something such as this happened to the woman you claim to love?!! Puh-leze!*****END OF SPOILER*****Sorry about the rant but this was totally too much for me to handle and I've read some really tough stories that you literally had to walk away from or take a break to endure some of the most absurd and unimaginable things that could happen to a human being but even those stories were created to bring out the humanity and win you over to a deplorable character....IMO that takes true talent.  I don't want to bash this author any longer because I do feel she has skills but seriously I would hope she would reconsider writing such demeaning stuff of women (especially ones she attempted to portray was strong and independent) when it comes to dominant/submissive relationships because this comes out to be the WRONG message and downright abusive (mentally/physically).I WON'T be reading anything from this author again and wish her good luck in her future endeavors.