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Summary: Contrived, unappealing characters..Like bad fast food
Review: While eagerly awaiting the delivery of my latest book order, I picked up this "gem" at the grocery store. I want my money back. In a word--or two--it stunk.Okay, if you're looking to get your rocks off on some very overly-descriptive, dragging, and dark sexual content, there's plenty of it here. Not much "thriller" content. More like a horny writer writing down his creepy fantasies, adding some filler content, and calling it a novel. The characters are totally contrived, unappealing, and actually pretty darn annoying. Jake, the S&M/CPA playing his vengeful sex games with women to "take away" from them and compensate for his first teenaged sex fling that coincided with the death of his parents. Mimi, the naive, pure, bride-to-be, who becomes a regular voyeur/silent partner to his dalliances. (If she said "please" one more time, I was ready to scream). And the stable of female victims (portrayed as sexually frustrated idiots) who willingly give themselves to a stranger without so much as a second glance. And lastly, the client/ghoul who stalks and preys on these woman, judges as "impure", then causes them to disappear. It was just ridiculous. The POV of each character (all in the first person) is confusing and adds to the annoying aspects of this story. The ending was completely anticlimatic, with a feeble attempt at symbolism that fell flat and left me even more annoyed that I'd wasted [money] on this. Save yourself some money. If you want a decent psychothriller, try Nicci French. If you want literary S&M porn, go buy an S&M mag. But save yourself the [money]. It's like bad, overpriced fast food--heartburn with headache included.
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