OMG! If your sensitive to any kind of physical abuse in stories, don't touch this one with a ten foot pole. I actually liked the story but not as a romance (SNORT!), but for the effing train wreck it was. You have to read this one with a "WHAT?!? You've got to be kidding me!" mentality. I read a lot of dark stories and can be a little desensitize but this one pushed the limit. As I said, this should in no way be labeled a romance. Seriously! I have never read of a worst anti-hero outside of the horror genre. This is a story about a deranged psycho-stalker inflicting his revenge on a masochistic heroine who obviously has issues to let this maniac back in her life. Maybe the author's intention was to demonstrate how CRAZY someone would have to be to welcome back a man like this into their lives after being abused to this extent. You know, with the philosophy that it's easy to see the truth of the matter when it's happening to someone else.
The level of abuse/torture was astounding. My favorite ("favorite" maybe shouldn't be the terminology to use, but you know what I mean hopefully) was him stamping out her little bit of defiance, and proving wrong her assertions that he wouldn't really resort to violence hurt her, by throwing her in the pool and holding her head under the water TWICE! Yeah, she never went there again.
This author should continue this story in the genre where it belongs (horror!) and depict the lives of a couple like this, which would be full of his obsessive control issues and physical violence and her not being able to take a pee without fear of upsetting him. She can forget her free and easy English ways. A man like this is too threatened and insecure to allow her to even go to the grocery store alone-especially after he's shown her his true colors and knows she would be stupid to stay with him.
So, if you're a lover of horror, psychological thrillers, as well as romance, then you'll enjoy this one which has it all tied up into one tidy, jaw-dropping, W.T.F.! novel.
Plus you have the colorful, rainbow happy looking book cover to go with it. Ha ha! Should be showing the shower scene in Psycho instead.
