Review: Really?
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 24, 2012
After reading so much praise about Tiffany Reisz, I was thrilled to see a freebie to try. I enjoy BDSM erotica on occasion but I am in that camp of readers who absolutely loathed Fifty Shades of Grey. So naturally I thought I would love this book because it's supposed to be so much better, but maybe my expectations were too high. For me, there was nothing engaging or erotic about the writing. The characters were all boring and/or highly annoying and by the end of the book I really just wanted all of them to die, especially Eleanor. To me, THAT would have been a happy ending. This book felt like a chore to read. I expected there to be a point where I would feel invested in these people but suddenly I was on the last page, wishing I hadn't started the book at all.This is the first and last book I will ever read by this author. I see all the praise and all the good reviews, but I don't get it. There was nothing enjoyable about this book to me. I felt like I was listening to someone tell a story that could have been interesting if someone else had told it. If this is "literary erotica" then I will never read "literary erotica" again. Thanks. I think I preferred Fifty Shades because even if it was laughable at least it wasn't boring.