Christine B. (vixn) reviewed on 4/11/2008

Helpful Score: 3

I went into this book expecting pain from what I've read by other reviewers. Rachel Wade's story is depressing and honestly upsetting. Much of the time you wish she'd fight just a little more, but you understand why she doesn't and in that way I think she was fighting. She survived a horrible ordeal. I was expecting to hate Sebastian more than I did, but truthfully while he was unbearable at times she made him understandable as well. His path to redemption was heartwarming.

This book wasn't typical, and strangely it was more realistic to me than other books I have read, if only because the issues that Sebastian are dealing with are inner demons, selfishness etc. Unlike your normal "hero" in a book he doesn't really inspire the unknowing brute turned sensitive, or the good man underneath a rough exterior. No Sebastian is a bad guy and he likes it that way, he knows who he is and all around he's bored with life. He isn't just a rake, or ladies man that we all know almost all guys are in Romance Novels, he's especially decadent and sick in his soul, but some inner part of him realizes when he sees Rachel that he doesn't want to be that way anymore, and that maybe she can heal him.

They heal each other and as always there's a happy ending in store.

I enjoyed the book, but it isn't for light readers who are looking for a quick feel good catharsis. There may even be lingering upset for Rachel's life and circumstance, but it is beautifully written and a very good story.

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