Anna has two masters, one she hardly knows, but who makes her feel safe, the other she's known all her life and says he needs her.
Alex wants her to be free.
Devin demands her obedience.
As Anna takes her first steps into the world, into love, into friendship, she wonders if she will ever understand either of them.
There is a subculture within our own world that you’ve only heard whispers of. The conspiracy theorists wish they knew Anna’s story. What the conspiracy theorists think they know is only put out there to keep them from the real story.
***NOTE***
This is not a stand-alone novel. This is the second of five novels that tell Anna’s story.
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.
Series: Standalone Genres: Young Adult, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction Published: September 13, 2010 Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Purchase: Amazon | Barnes & Noble
To
five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born
and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and
eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the
wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.
Room
is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held
her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and
fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's
not enough...not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan,
one that relies on her young son's bravery and a lot of luck. What she
does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually
work.
Review ~ I couldn't read from a smart 5 year old perspective. He changes, a lot, I mean, by intelligence. One moment, he's how a five year old should act, the next, he describes and says words too complicated for a five year old who's spent his life in a room, thinking that's the whole world. I would always usually think this is being told from an adult's point of view while reading for a moment or two, and then he starts using toddler language, and it really just ruins the whole thing.
“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
When reading Room though, a smart five year old's perspective is a benefit, because you felt like you were there, not just reading some lousy old kid's limited words, there were details, not complicated or bizarre, but enough so that you could imagine what kind of life they were living in. Emma Donoghue had done an amazing job writing details so vividly clear that you could be scared out of your mind at on point while reading, or you could be jumping up and down out of happiness. It's simply amazing.
“Everybody's damaged by something.”
Here's the thing though. I liked reading when they were in the room and when they were doing something amazing, but I kind of sped through the second half of the book, which is the part where J___ Sa__ Ma and Es____. Yea, you get it right? Sorry, no spoilers, fill in the blank. :) Jack's mother was definitely my favorite character out of all. I saw her develop and change if you compare the first half and the second half of the book. She's brave and loving for a woman who's been kidnapped and trapped for seven/eight years of her life, and when a miracle happens, you could definitely see the change!
“Stories are a different kind of true.”
And the ending? Sure, it wasn't one of those books with a sad ending, it's one of those with a happy ending, and you're so filled with joy about the joys that occurred in this books that you don't even care this book is over! It's a compelling story, one that will captivate your mind until you're done with it.
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