Review: NOT my kind of book.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 11 22, 2013
Note - I only read one of these, the first.  I did finish it, but have no interest in continuing in case the others are similar.  I knew these would have sex scenes, but I though they might be erotic.  I don't find abuse (called submission here) that attractive, even if the guy cuddles you after hurting you.In this story we are supposed to think that smart, aggressive (her staff calls her "Miss Shark") and successful magazine starter Julia is so stupid she signs a venture capital deal without understanding it, and knows so little about the finances of the company she started from scratch that it is being used launder & steal money that she doesn't know about.  When one of the (in my opinion both unattractive) brothers who own the venture capital company basically steals her company from her she turns to the other, Mark, for help.  He tells her he will try to help if she will submit to him in every way for a month.  To seal the deal he turns her over his desk, pulls skirt up and panties down and more or less rapes her.  No affection displayed, no foreplay, and described as still causing pain later.  This is how she is to show her total submission to him.  The degree of pain and humiliation these sexual escapades cause increases over time, including spanking with a hairbrush and anal sex explicitly described as painful during & after.  So she falls in love with him. (WHY???  Cannot believe a woman wrote this stuff!)  The plot is thin, mostly a way to string together in increasingly unpleasant sex scenes.  After enough pages (way more than enough for me) Mark saves her company, bullies her about it in a rough sex scene one last time and proposes to her.In fairness, I only read the first story.  Although this kind of sex is not my cup of tea, it is possible that some of the others in the collection are more coherent and would make better reading for those who do like this sort of thing.