Review: Nothing Romantic about it
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 17, 2013
This book is more than dark.  In one scene, Jessica, the main female character, is strapped to a super-charged vibrator.  She is forced to watch as a man she knows is slowly pulled apart at the limbs with each unwilling orgasm she has.  It describes muscles and bones popping, and limbs being torn off and dropping to the floor.  The man passes out multiple times, only to be brought back screaming to consciousness over and over with smelling salts, until death finally claims him.This is not the only torture, and it is used on more than one person, with Jessica as the catalyst each time.  Jessica's imprisonment, along with several other victims, and the scenarios of the (multiple) kidnappers torture, rape and murder, cover over 90% of the book.  We're not talking about a minor section needed to set a background.  This is the whole story.One reviewer indicated it had a happy ending.  Well, people obviously have different ideas of what a "happy ending" is.***** Spoiler Alert *********The happy ending is that Jessica escapes with her life at the end.She returns home to find her husband, who thought she was dead, has remarried & doesn't want her in his life.  Ty, one of the sadistic kidnappers (that tortured, raped & murdered multiple victims), who Jessica fell in love with (SERIOUSLY??), manages to change his identity & get off free, with hopes of starting a new life, and the hint that Ty & Jessica may get together in the future.  That's a seriously twisted happy ending. I'd have been happier if he'd been drawn and quartered.***** End Spoiler *********If you enjoy murder and brutality, this book may be for you.  It certainly doesn't come anywhere near the romance selection I look forward to. I gave it 2 stars instead of 1 because, as a thriller/suspense, it was probably well written.