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Beast of Venery by Isabell Lawless on 2014
Genres: Adult, Fiction, Girls & Women, Love & Romance
Read it as: eBook
Source: Author
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Synopsis
Not wasting a second, the moving truck with its crew packed up all her belongings, and she finally hit the road away from hell, once and for all.
At least that was her plan.Years later; in a new town, with a new job, and a wonderful hot contractor as a husband, an email shakes up the happy life she has manage to rebuild for herself. A life far away from denigrating accusations, cruel demands, and sexual domination.
Now her ex Brian has found her, and won't accept anything less than for her to come back home.
She needs to come back to him. Come home.
She belongs to him. And him only.Beast of Venery is a semi-autobiographical romantic thriller that follows Danielle fleeing an abusive and domineering ex-boyfriend. With the help and support from her new husband and surrounding family she fights his attempts to contact her and touch her in any way possible to get her back into her life.
Wow
So, this usually isn’t the kind of book I’d normally pick up. But hey, sometimes one should leave their confort zone.
I’ve always been a little reluctant to try an adult erotic book. I guess because I feared it would only be about sex and I wouldn’t see the things I’d grown to love about the YA genre. But Beast of Venery proved me wrong.
Yes, there were sex scenes, and yes, it was very mature *squeals*. But it also carried a meaningful message.
I didn’t get bored or started flipping through pages because there always tension, in various degrees. And while I didn’t completely agree with some things Danielle did, I always tried to put myself in her shoes, and then I was like: ‘If this happened to me, I’d have already fainted.’
There are very dark themes in this story, but that’s okay. Somebody’s gotta talk about the tough stuff.
The thing I liked the most about the book was the hook. How we’re instantly introduced to the problem in a way that both entices us to keep reading, but isn’t cliffhanger-ish enough to annoy.
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