The blurb as seen on Goodreads:
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Publisher: Random House
368 Pages
For fans of Fifty Shades of Grey and Bared to You comes a wickedly erotic new novel of innocence, desire, and unbridled pleasure.
Delaine Talbot has a secret. When a matter of life and death threatens to tear apart her family, Delaine makes the ultimate sacrifice. She auctions herself off at Chicago’s most exclusive erotic club. Now she belongs to Noah Crawford, a wealthy mogul who introduces her to a seductive feast of the senses, awakening desires she only dreamed about.
Noah doesn’t know why Delaine sold her body for a cool two mil. But it’s the perfect business arrangement. The inexperienced beauty will learn to satisfy his every sensual need, yet never touch his heart. Almost immediately their relationship generates heat—in more ways than one. When they fight, they take no prisoners. When they love, they show no mercy. When they’re together, they never want to leave each other’s arms. But soon, their intense, physical bond will take an unexpected turn—evolving into something neither has bargained for: the promise of a lasting love.
I received an e-copy
of this book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
Release Date: August 27, 2013Publisher: Random House
368 Pages
For fans of Fifty Shades of Grey and Bared to You comes a wickedly erotic new novel of innocence, desire, and unbridled pleasure.
Delaine Talbot has a secret. When a matter of life and death threatens to tear apart her family, Delaine makes the ultimate sacrifice. She auctions herself off at Chicago’s most exclusive erotic club. Now she belongs to Noah Crawford, a wealthy mogul who introduces her to a seductive feast of the senses, awakening desires she only dreamed about.
Noah doesn’t know why Delaine sold her body for a cool two mil. But it’s the perfect business arrangement. The inexperienced beauty will learn to satisfy his every sensual need, yet never touch his heart. Almost immediately their relationship generates heat—in more ways than one. When they fight, they take no prisoners. When they love, they show no mercy. When they’re together, they never want to leave each other’s arms. But soon, their intense, physical bond will take an unexpected turn—evolving into something neither has bargained for: the promise of a lasting love.
There’s this little issue with pulled to publish fan
fictions – no matter how much (or how little) you change it, it’s still taking
someone else’s characters and trying to pass them off as your own. This is a
major problem and the reason why it’s hard for me to support any of these. When
you write fan fiction, you’re writing with a set group of characters that many
people know going in, you get a little bit a leeway when writing because you
don’t really need that much characterization. People already know them.
However, when writing original work, you’re introducing brand new characters to
people who have never heard of them. There needs to be strong characteristics
and development throughout the book. The latter was lacking here.
A Million Dirty Secrets is the story of a millionaire buying
a sex slave and despite all the odds, they *gasp* fall in love. Aside from this
having been a Twilight fan fiction, I have no idea how this even got published –
and by an actual publishing house. It’s so ridiculous and over the top, not to
mention highly offensive and absurd. I didn’t honestly read the last half of
the book, I skimmed it. I just couldn’t do it.
Delaine sells herself to Noah to get money for her mother’s
heart surgery – apparently not ever having heard that there’s something called
a donor list that her mother would have to go through first.
After being “purchased”, Delaine proceeds to be a complete bitch
to Noah. Mind you, I do not agree with, nor do I remotely like anything Noah does,
but her snotty attitude and “poor me” whining needs to go. Are we supposed to
feel sorry for her? You did this to yourself; I have no pity for you.
Delaine and Noah were very one dimensional characters, and
not even original one dimensional characters. Delaine was the sweet innocent
virgin who was just trying to do the right thing, but once she has an orgasm –
WATCH OUT! A ‘sexual beast’ is born and she’s perfect at everything she does.
Just a natural. (Fancy that.)
And Noah? Well, he’s the sex god who awoke the beast (as
only he could). The perfect male specimen: rich, gorgeous, scared to love again
because he’s been burned, and a penis that changes chaste virgins into horny
sex kittens.
None of this is original. It’s all been done before.
Multiple times. Please let’s move away from this.
The actual writing itself was another issue. The inner
voices and dialogue between the characters felt forced, like the author was
trying too hard to be witty and funny. Instead, it came across as childish and
immature.
“…licking my chops when I poured the moo juice over the
cocoa yumminess and it turned all chocolaty.”
“I mean, crotch docs saw a lot of snatch, so you had to
wonder if yours looked any different…”
“He’s got some real potential to be all that and a bag of
chips…”
That’s just a few.
The sex scenes were even worse:
“He pressed his hips forward and that thing in his pants
nudged the girliest part of me.”
“…my tongue got its swirl on.”
How is that sexy?
This was supposed to be an erotica/love story, but how do
you fall in love with someone you haven’t even had a real conversation with?
The only thing that happened in this book was sex, snarky comment, sex, snarky
comment, sex, poor me, sex, predictable angst, cliffhanger ending.
Your love is invalid.
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