3.5 stars. Review may contain spoilers:






I really wanted to fall in love with this series. But this book failed to grab me. While, I really enjoy the writing style, the story itself was predictable and lacking. I ended up feeling like there should have been something more.
Let me start with Nikki, who hates to go by Nichole. She is the only character that had any substance. She is the only one that I really knew anything about. Since the book is told from her point of view only, it is normal. But even when she is prying information out of Damien I felt like it was just the basics. She learned very little about him after her original Internet search. Another thing I really never understood was her cutting issue. Was it because she needed some type of control? I can't imagine living a life that was so structured and negative, however, I don't really understand why it resolved into cutting. Losing her sister was tragic and of course the pain from that could lead to such destructive tendencies. But in the grand scheme of things I didn't feel like she had it horrible. That the cutting was placed in the story in haste.
Damien sounds delicious. Yummy in every way. But I don't understand him. I know he protects Nikki. I know he spends a lot of money on Nikki. But I don't understand his feelings or drive behind the relationship with Nikki. I would have preferred to have been given more insight into his heart, his feelings, and his desires.
The remaining characters in the book Ollie and Jamie for instance, I know virtually nothing about. They seek to be thrown about in the story to be fillers. Ollie and Jamie hook up and it destroys Nikki for about an hour, then it's swept under the rug? What is the reasoning behind Jamie's sexual ways?
All in all I was left asking Why? And what was the cause of..... A lot. The book is steamy! There are some fantastic sex scenes. And I really feel like this could be a great series if there was more information given.