Three

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Summary: as good as the real thang
Review: Mesmerizing. I too caught my boyfriend in flagrante. I'll leave out the details, but handcuffs were involved ... anyway, reading 3, I understood how the intensity of an abusive relationship could help a person discover a hidden side of her nature. I'll again leave out the details.

I recommend 3 to anyone who's not afraid to explore female sexuality.

Rating:
Summary: Finally, something new...
Review: Ms. Hilden's book struck a chord in me I thought unreachable. Though darkly disturbing, I can't help but to think the whole story beautiful. I cried 15 minutes straight before finishing the book. 3 is a must read for anyone who ever thought they were in love.

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Summary: Love and sex (and shackles, knives and great writing)
Review: Much more than a story of sexual obsession, Hilden has written convincingly about the place where trust, desire and obsession intersect. Maya, in her early 20s, is living with Ilan, also young, as they embark on journalists' careers in New York. Hilden is less interested in the city's literary and journalistic firmament--3 is not a slap at thinly veiled editors and writers--than in the nature of the relationship between a woman desperately in love with a man whose sense of worthlessness, mixed with his need for a continuing parade of women, creates a kind of sexual fugue, a theme and destructive variation, that requires Maya to compromise her own sense of self in the name of love. The narrator's quietly taut voice evokes her desperate struggle to disentangle devotion and subservience, commitment and selfhood. A lesser writer would have fumbled this subject for melodrama or mere eroticism, but Hilden's fine writing serves like an athlete's footwork, sidestepping the obvious traps.

Rating:
Summary: Love and sex (and shackles, knives and great writing)
Review: Much more than a story of sexual obsession, Hilden has written convincingly about the place where trust, desire and obsession intersect. Maya, in her early 20s, is living with Ilan, also young, as they embark on journalists' careers in New York. Hilden is less interested in the city's literary and journalistic firmament--3 is not a slap at thinly veiled editors and writers--than in the nature of the relationship between a woman desperately in love with a man whose sense of worthlessness, mixed with his need for a continuing parade of women, creates a kind of sexual fugue, a theme and destructive variation, that requires Maya to compromise her own sense of self in the name of love. The narrator's quietly taut voice evokes her desperate struggle to disentangle devotion and subservience, commitment and selfhood. A lesser writer would have fumbled this subject for melodrama or mere eroticism, but Hilden's fine writing serves like an athlete's footwork, sidestepping the obvious traps.

Rating:
Summary: Dark and Compelling
Review: This book was not what I expected at all. The writing is compelling and it touches on some really dark subjects with an unexpected warmth and dimension.

This book is not really about threesomes, nor would I call it erotica although I see that it's listed as such and the bookjacket seems to give that idea.

This story is about the darkness inside of people, the places that exist beneath the surface, lurking in the shadows, waiting to unfurl.

While it seems at times that the darkness lies inside of Ilan, and he surely has some, it's really with Maya. Maya who loves and yet hates what Ilan is to her, what he evokes from her, the depths to which she's allowed herself to go because of him and yet when he's gone, the darkness isn't and she's left to confront and process her own part in the trauma he's wrought in her life.

The book is beautiful in a completely unique way, the writing is wonderful, the story is haunting and gut wrenching. It's an amazing and worthy read.

Rating:
Summary: Hot, Steamy, & Thrilling
Review: This is one of the great books i have ever read. It touches every possible area of great interest. It has it all. This is a great read for anyone who wants a book that excites you in all ways possible.