Review: What a disappointment!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 12, 2013
I just had to stop reading halfway through it, and even until then I struggled. The writing is amateurish, awfully unpolished, and in dire need of a good proof reader, but most importantly, of a patient editor. There is an outpour of grammatical mistakes, missing words and typos, but leaving aside this highly disconcerting aspect, the storyline did not hold any originality, and the characters were the most unlikable I ever came across. I am saying the characters, and do not only refer to Tucker, for a couple of reasons.To start with Tucker, he is the most appalling, disgusting pig that one could depict. A conceited, insufferable, arrogant male who bullies his women and treats them like sexual toys and nothing more. The author tried hard to suggest that he was also a hard working man with great marriage values, but it didn't work for me. Such statements stuck out like a sore thumb when confronted with his personality, his awful behaviour and outrageous language. I just hated him all along, and there was not one moment when I felt I could soften to him. I just don't care how good a man can look, there would be no chemistry if he is the ultimate douchebag.As for Lilliana, she was depicted as a strong-willed woman, but she kept turning into putty in Tucker's hands as soon as her hormones kicked in. Her wanton behaviour, and lack of brains for that matter, her submission and her acceptance of his inexcusable behaviour represent in my view a humiliation, a slap in all women's face, an acknowledgement that we should submit to bullying when our libido so dictates. This is the perceived message of the book, and I find it most appalling.Not to mention that the author does not seem to have a clue about character development. In her attempt to paint the characters in a nice light and to mitigate the negatives, she created a hodgepodge of traits for Tucker and Lilliana, all conflicting and most confusing, conveying them to us through rushed examples, basically shoving the depiction down the readers' throat instead of letting the reader discover those particular traits through the characters' actions and dialogue.I will not continue reading, as I feel utterly disgusted. Even the sex scenes are animalistic, they don't have anything sensual about them, they are very graphic but in a deterring way, as opposed to other erotica books that I read.a total disappointment.This novel does not deserve the star that I have given to it, but unfortunately Amazon does not offer a fractional rating.