Book Review: Crush by Lucia Jordan

Series: Crush (#1)
Genre: Romance, Adult, Contemporary, Erotica
Published: July 15th, 2014 (August 12th, 2014 by Smashwords)
Purchase: Amazon (Free) | Barnes & Noble (Free) | Free on iBooks

Laid off after her company has downsized, Jessica Palmer moves to New York searching for opportunities. But finding a job is hard work and sitting at home doing absolutely nothing is even harder so she decides to join a gym.

There she finds Steven Benedict, a lust-inducing trainer who is sex on legs. As he gives her a tour of the amenities Fire Fitness Club provides, Jess learns that he’s charming, confident and a scent like molten lust. With her sexuality charged, she accepts an invitation to have dinner with him. What more could a girl want? But when he comes over to pick her up, she soon discovers that he’s sexual in ways she’s never known. Will his dominant nature in the bedroom scare her off? Or will she find herself a willing submissive?

Short story = short review 

Crush is only 32 pages. It was way too fast paced and I just didn't like it.I think it should have been longer since there was no character development at all. The author tried to stuff everything in a small amount of pages and made it into a short story. It was lacking a lot. By doing some research on her work, all her work has been done as a short story. I think it would have made it a little better was to write it in first person point of view. Experience more I guess?

They meet at the gym and basically have sex that night. Spoiler? Well, I'm sorry. That was literally what it was about. Not much of a cliffhanger to me either.

I probably will read her other works and the fact that the first books in each series are free, well, I'm using that. 

Book Review: Fault Line by C. Desir

Series: Standalone
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Romance
Published: October 15th, 2013 by SimonPulse
Purchase: Barnes & Noble | Amazon

Ben could date anyone he wants, but he only has eyes for the new girl — sarcastic free-spirit, Ani. Luckily for Ben, Ani wants him too. She’s everything Ben could ever imagine. Everything he could ever want.

But that all changes after the party. The one Ben misses. The one Ani goes to alone.

Now Ani isn’t the girl she used to be, and Ben can’t sort out the truth from the lies. What really happened, and who is to blame?

Ben wants to help her, but she refuses to be helped. The more she pushes Ben away, the more he wonders if there’s anything he can do to save the girl he loves.

I seriously have never rated a book this low. It's very rare that I dislike a book this much. I'm not harsh on judging books. I don't know whether to rate this a two or lower.

I understand that rape is a very serious topic. No one should have to experience any of it. This story deals with the rape and the aftereffects of it. It has done a horrible thing and drastically forever changed the victim. This isn't a book for everyone. I personally dislike it very much. This wasn't my cup of tea. The reason to why I didn't like it very much was because of the characters. Ani was such a frustrating character. This did not have a happy ending like I thought it would have.

Spoilers Ahead

This is told from the victim's boyfriend's perspective. Fault Line begins with one event after six months of meeting each other. I'm not going to say what that event was. Uh, yeah. Let me tell you it wasn't so great. And then the real beginning takes six months before that. It's where Ben first meets Ani. In the beginning when they were dating, I thought they were cute. I had no clue about what happened to her at that party until I read it. Ben decides to stay home instead of going to the party. Ani goes with her friend instead.  Ben is crazy about Ani and would do anything to for her. Things go haywire. She becomes a rape victim. I seriously thought she was a strong character. She becomes, well to say, a slut in the end. I really thought she could be better. But I know it sticks to you. It's traumatizing. But she was just so frustrating and I was disgusted by the way she was acting afterwards. Come on, try to make it better for yourself, not worse. 

I really hated the fact that she didn't tell her mom that she was raped. Like, seriously? I understand that she would kill you for drinking or something but I'm sure she would look more at the fact that you got RAPED. 

I was frustrated about how they were handling the relationship. She didn't want to go any programs that would help. She was doing all this shiz that Ben didn't deserve. I was just a tiny bit satisfied about what Ben had decided to do in the end. It wasn't a good ending but hey, it was better than nothing. BUT HE DIDN'T CALL OUT THE TEACHER. 

Who is to blame? Himself, for not being there?
Ani, for allowing herself to be vulnerable?
Or her friend, for seeing  the warning signs?

I don't even know anymore.