Review: Ban it again and save people's money!!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 27, 2014
This book has been banned, several times, by Amazon. I have no idea why. Personally I think it was listed in the wrong genre because this was not dark erotica. You cannot just write a book and throw a couple of sex scenes in it and say it's dark erotica. There's a bit more to the genre than that! Another, recently, banned book did exactly the same thing and when I spoke to the author, she said she thought because her book had sex in it then it had to go in the erotica genre!! So my first problem with this book, is that it should be listed in the psychological thriller genre, and authors really need to learn what constitutes the different genres.And now things really go downhill.....expecting to read a dark erotic novel and finding out it wasn't going to be one, got my goat straight away. It annoyed me. I thought oh here we go again and all the terrible clichés about bandwagons flooded my brain.The blurb of the book suggested an entirely different story to what was presented in the book.I didn't like the writing style, it was too wordy, too stilted, too pretentious.The editing...well actually I don't think there was any editing.If the author's intention was to shock then I have to say he did manage to shock me, but not in the way I'm sure he intended. I was shocked by the poor writing skills, the poorly executed story, the lack of character development and just generally the indecisiveness of the author.There are far better dark erotic books out there, I've read some corkers that will tantalise, titillate and terrorise you. Books that make you feel dirty for reading them, for intruding into the lives of the characters.This book was none of this. This book fell way short of the mark of being good erotica or a good thriller or to put it plainly, a good book. Shame really because the blurb sounded promising!