Also I do have a preference for Romance and Erotica and if both or at least the latter had been employed more, I would have rated it higher. Would have been more if it was less descriptive. I’m pretty sure i’ll read a flowery romance after this, my heart needs it! I gave myself a pep talk to stick to the genres I know but I found myself buying the next book in the series. Usually I would be tempted to skim but I was too worried i’d miss something crucial!įinally at 88% my jaw dropped and it stayed there until the end of the book. God she was infuriating at times! Did I mention that the book is very descriptive? What she ate, what she wore, the weather….everything is in too much detail. Not that it wasn’t well written (albeit a bit too descriptive), just that I guess I can’t really picture this happening to anyone and them responding the way Claire did. I just couldn’t believe much of what was happening. I read the rest of the book alternating my WTF face with my ‘is this really happening’ face. And when he was it was so beautiful you could almost forget his crazy side…almost! I did have moments I liked Anthony. Ok, so even I have to admit he was sweet, loving and generous sometimes. At 44% I feared my WTF face would become a permanent feature! This man’s brutality elevated to levels my poor brain could not comprehend. There were so many instances I thought, “What the hell Claire, now’s your chance! Get the hell out of there!” At about 37% I was in complete shock.

I have to say that I perfected my WTF face reading this book. What starts out as non consensual eventually becomes consensual…Stolkholm Syndrome personified. He assures her that he’ll release her once her “debt” is cleared and eventually she learns to obey him.

He can be kind and generous one minute, and downright sadistic in the next. Claire quickly discovers there are two sides to Anthony. Her captor is Anthony Rawlings, a rich, handsome but brutal man who is hell bent on controlling every aspect of Claire’s new existence. She quickly remembers that she was abducted.

There are elements of both but the author firmly places her book in the Psychological Thriller category and I have to agree.įirst things first, a synopsis. I have to place a warning, this is NOT a romance novel, nor is it erotica. Damn me and my lack of self preservation! First thought after I finished the book, “I don’t think my heart can handle book #2”, then I immediately went to Amazon and got book #2. I’m not even sure I should write a review in my state. My mind has just been totally and utterly mind fucked! This book went above and beyond anything I imagined.

Consequences by aleatha romig