![]() ![]() Wouldn’t the police have wanted to figure out how the killer was meeting these women and wouldn’t they have at least considered the Internet as a possibility in this day and age? Third, the killer breaks his murderous MO in the novel for the most flimsy reason. The police seemed to know that the killer wasn’t using random women as victims, which meant he had carefully planned who he was going to kill. Second, the killer was using the Internet to meet his victims. The author tries to explain that Nikki is too busy to read the papers or watch the news, but I wasn’t convinced. This is fairly early in the book, but by this time, I’d had quite a few problems with the novel.įirst, I found it extremely hard to believe that there is a notorious serial murderer out there who uses bondage and rough sex as part of his ritual and Nikki knows nothing about him. And Thomas, who has read all of Nikki’s correspondence with “Richard” (as part of the investigation or so he claims), finds himself turned on by her desires. Nikki begins to wonder if Thomas may be the dominant lover she is looking for. Of course, there is an instantaneous attraction. When Nikki is attacked and nearly killed by the serial murderer (though she escapes death thanks to some rather implausible plot twists), she and Thomas become part of each other lives. This case is very personal to him for reasons I can’t reveal here and he is nearly obsessed with solving it. When Nikki makes a date to finally meet her online paramour, it looks like she may be his next victim.ĭetective Thomas Cavanah is the investigator on the case. ![]() ![]() What Nikki doesn’t know is that “Richard” is a serial killer who has brutally murdered several women and he uses the Internet to meet these women and draw them into his web. She finds Richard fulfills all her desires sexually and emotionally and seems to be too good to be true. Nikki connects with a man named Richard and starts an online relationship with him. She doesn’t explore her desires in real life, until one night she stumbles onto a website that caters to dominant men and women who wish to submit to them. So far Nikki has kept her desires in the form of fantasies or the books she reads. The story is careful to point out that Nikki doesn’t want to be controlled by a man 24/7 that aspect of the relationship should begin and end at the bedroom door, and she wants love to be part of the relationship. She wants to be involved with a sexually dominant man, one who completely controls her sexually and one to whom she can submit. What she is looking for is a relationship with a certain kind of man. Actually she does, but Nikki isn’t looking for an ordinary relationship with an ordinary guy. Nikki Adenike is a successful, busy surgeon, who like most romance heroines has no time for a love life. Most of all, the author hit upon my biggest pet peeve when it comes to sex scenes. And since these scenes were so graphic, so raw and so erotic, it made their flaws even more glaring. My problem was that the sex scenes were wholly out of place and inappropriate at the point they took place in the story. I didn’t have a problem with the kinky nature of the scenes, which dealt with dominant/submissive sex. It wasn’t how graphic the scenes were (and they were very graphic, possibly the most graphic I’ve ever read), nor was it the rough and foul language the characters use during them. It isn’t often that I find a love sex scene icky, uncomfortable, offensive and so distracting that it’s hard for me to get into the story, but that’s how I felt about the scenes in this thriller (which is described on both its front and back covers as romantic suspense, not erotica). And because I skim them, they generally don’t have an effect on how I feel about the book as a whole. The “money shot,” so to speak, is not the point of a romance novel, and no matter how well they are written, I usually find love scenes unimaginative. Why? I read romance novels for the romance, the events that bring two characters together, the ups and downs of their relationships, and – of course – the HEA. In fact, I usually skim them and resume reading where the story picks up. I rarely ever read the love scenes in romance novels.
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