Once again I really want to love the story, and I do like it, but the plot errors grate my nerves: in this volume on pg 146 the female lead gets dressed and goes down to meet her kidnapper, then minutes later she tries to run from him and she's being chased down she's back in her pajamas.
Well, it does take a little over halfway for them to get to their first sexual scene, and all I have to say is you really need to enjoy superlatively arrogant males, with an insecure bit of masochism to get into this one. Secondarily they talk an awful lot about all the depraved things he wants to do to her-- and the female lead in turn talks about all the depraved things she wants to be done to her, it's brought up repeatedly on both fronts -- and when they finally start having sex there is a lot of dirty talk, and he is not gentle, but this doesn't stray into the BDSM genre as series readers might have expected from mention of Adryan's sex clubs in previous books. While the sexual encounters are not what I would call making love or gentle, they are not nearly as risque as the buildup leads to believe. Now, I don't need super kinky I don't need sadism or masochism, in fact I don't like either, however it was rather anticlimactic after the build-up.
I agree with other reviewers who said Adryan talks about what a badass he is all the time, and how dangerous he is, and it kind of takes away from the air of that danger, in fact it makes him seem desperate for approval almost. I found all of Adryan's posturing to be more of a turnoff and a distraction from true strength and depravity than a buildup for it.
The most emotional moment in the book for me was when they were fighting the true villains to free the captives and Adryan's nephew was injured. Besides the plot error mentioned above and a few other typographical errors it wasn't as bad as some previous volumes. So much time was spent building up to the first sexual encounter, that there wasn't a lot of room left in the book for other plot and the last half seemed rather rushed. For my part, I could have used a bit more character development for Adryan's violent nature through the eyes of Adrian's peers and through our female lead's experiences. There wasn't much in the way of her seeing him in action to justify his brutal reputation (at least until the rescue scene), and most of his reputation was from him running his own mouth. I'd rather see it than be told about it, in other words.
Overall it was a diverting read and it goes quickly. I enjoyed it, but I didn't feel the deep connection between the two lead characters that I've gotten from other authors, but this is a fair enough volume I could give it two and a half stars. The cliffhanger ending that introduces the next book was a bit dark for me, and had a bit too much of a rapey kind of feel even though the attempt was made to walk that back, the fact that it is repeatedly mentioned that the group regularly does that sort of thing . . . I just don't know if I can head that direction. If an author really feels the need to bring up rape as a plot device, I can't tolerate the male lead doing that to start a romance; I cannot stand a lot of detail (I'd rather it be mentioned as a past event that occurred but not have it detailed or outlined first-hand, e.g given action detail to); and I REALLY need everyone who perpetrated the sexual assault to suffer horrifically or be eliminated in painful ways for being the filth that would take something without consent that should be freely given, killing the soul in a way that nothing else really does. Just saying there needs to be some serious justice and it needs to be in kind.
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