After reading my friend Mikes review I suspected this book was going to be problematic for me. Having been forewarned about the rape threat as well asAfter reading my friend Mikes review I suspected this book was going to be problematic for me. Having been forewarned about the rape threat as well as the frequent references to sex I did read the entire book as part of several group/buddy reads this month. However, it did hit my trigger & great dislike for rape threats in books. In a number of books I can get past the sex and enjoy the book if I'm already pulled into the story and care about the characters. Unfortunately the sex started too early in the book for me to connect to the character.
I'm not rating the book as I feel I'm not the right audience for this book and it would be unfair to the author for me to rate it based on my personal taste. Given that many of my friends really enjoy this author I feel fairly safe in saying its me & not the author at fault. I knew when I picked it up I probably would have rape threat/sex issues but I still read it....more