Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Before you read my review, take a moment and read the blurb... Go ahead... Now buckle up because I'm about to rant... Sounds awesome, right? Pretty standard premise--bad boy, good girl. I knew there would likely be insta-love, some mafia violence. I'd hoped there would be some dominating sexy good times. What I got was a hot mess of contradictions, a FMC that made no sense, cringe-worthy dialogue, and a MMC whose only interesting quality was the size of his... Let's start with the beginning, shall we? "My family was a pretty traditional working class family." Okay, I've painted a picture. Except on the next page, Jodie talks about all the nice cars, the nice things they owned, all the money they had. You know, because her father owned a string of nightclubs. Jodie witnesses Dante doing unspeakable violence to her family, and then he kidnaps her. She's super angry about this. You can tell because she says, "You bastards. You killed them, you bastards." See? She means that. So Dante is wondering if she really could be clueless about her own father's business dealings. He decides it's possible, then later says there's no way she couldn't have known, and then says it's possible again. So Jodie wakes up in a strange place with a knot on her head after witnessing her entire family being brutally murdered. She cries a little and screams a lot. Dante decides enough is enough and tells her, "You'll submit. You'll learn." Her reaction? She's mad, sure, but she can't help but notice how hot he is and she's just dripping for him. Seriously? There's this huge deal made about how he lives in an apartment, so he can't take chances and has to tie her up and gag her whenever he leaves. He does this the first time...and the third. Second time? Guess that wasn't a big deal... He makes her breakfast in bed, but she jumps up and scurries to the bathroom to go pee first. Then they try to have this cute little banter about how he f'ed her so hard she can't walk. "Just because I haven't walked yet doesn't mean I can't." "I think you're unable to walk because I dominated you last night." Hello! She already got up! Enough about inconsistencies... One of my pet peeves is telling me every little thought as though I can't draw my own conclusions. Perfect example--there's a scene where he gives her some wine. She takes a sip and then starts guzzling it. He tells her to slow down, his face goes soft, and then he says, "There will be more wine." I actually read this scene to my nine year old son and asked him what inferences he could draw. He said, "She likes the wine. She's scared she won't get more." Good job, kiddo. I do not need, "I nodded, feeling silly. He saw right through me. I wanted to drink it fast because I didn't know if there would be another glass after that. I couldn't help myself." And the whole book is like this... Then the dialogue... "You do as I say." "Why" "Because you want to... That's why I'm going to make you submit." "How?" "Get down on your knees... Good girl." So, the book is about a girl who witnesses brutality but decides her kidnapper is too sexy to deny. He says, "Submit." She tells him that she never will but after a couple days of zero conversation, she decides he's just too hot. He decides that he loves her and is willing to give up everything for her because she's so pretty. The end...which is, incidentally, at the 29% mark. Let's not forget that.