Shelley S. (lucybelle) reviewed on
Helpful Score: 1
Nevvie (short for Neveah which is heaven spelled backwards), cleans house for Thomas and Tyler, a gay couple who really aren't gay but are bisexual. They are secretly in love with her and hatch a plan to steal her away from her less than hygienic boyfriend, Alex. Big surprise, she drops into their laps. From there, they continually overrun all her not so heartfelt objections and push her into accepting clothing, cars, gifts, etc. In short, manipulate her with her own insecurities and guilt until she accepts any and all gifts showered upon her.
1. Book was overlong by about 200 pages. The men's constant declarations of love and devotion wore me out by page 50. The redundancy and sheer repetitiveness of how and why they loved her and how they showed this love (this was even before the sex) was silly and ridiculous and made this book much longer than it needed to be.
2. The contrived situations invented to show how she was not a money grubbing gold digger just got to be amusing: Scenes with each and every one of Thomas' family members (and there were plenty) at Thanksgiving where, for some reason, the decision was made to tell his entire family about their "special" relationship, telling their skeptical lawyer to add her to every conceivable piece of paper, including each and every business and/or legal document but with a few simple, heartfelt words from Nevvie, Mr. Lawyer was suddenly fine and dandy with the whole situation, attending the faculty party at a college where Tyler is no longer faculty just so one of his ex wives can "get hers" for cheating on him. Suddenly the shy, mousy soft spoken Nevvie is a tigress, telling the ex what a horrible person she is, all without really knowing anything about her or the situation (BTW, the ex is anorexic and the guy SHE's with is old and ugly. Cliches abound, I tell you).
3. The overdone Master/slave role playing carried over from the Halloween party into the bedroom when the guys FINALLY seduce her. This carries into the next morning for some reason even though this story could never be mistaken for a D/s relationship even by the most naive of persons.
4. And finally, after an almost embarrassing lack of conflict on either part of HH/h, an awful, horrible, completely avoidable contrived misunderstanding on the heroine's part. I mean, really? After the entire freakin' book, where page after page after page of the guys telling her how much they loved her and to please never leave them, the constant barrage of gifts, the multiple sex scenarios throughout each and every day, she throws a screaming fit and leaves without listening to any sort of explanation at all??? Really???? Of course this is to set up the climax that anyone with a 4th grade education could see coming.
One side note - I would have liked some more explanation about why, when her mother, who having remarried, allowed her adopted daughter, Nevvie to be abandoned by a religious fanatic stepfather. I mean this is a child chosen by her and named after a celestial and perfect place (which I assume was done out of love) and apparently had no issues with kicking her to the curb at the insistence of the stepfather.
Don't get me wrong. I can suspend belief with the best of them and have, numerous times while reading these types of books but come on! Give me a little credit and don't make it so far out of the realm of possibility as to be completely off the planet!!
1. Book was overlong by about 200 pages. The men's constant declarations of love and devotion wore me out by page 50. The redundancy and sheer repetitiveness of how and why they loved her and how they showed this love (this was even before the sex) was silly and ridiculous and made this book much longer than it needed to be.
2. The contrived situations invented to show how she was not a money grubbing gold digger just got to be amusing: Scenes with each and every one of Thomas' family members (and there were plenty) at Thanksgiving where, for some reason, the decision was made to tell his entire family about their "special" relationship, telling their skeptical lawyer to add her to every conceivable piece of paper, including each and every business and/or legal document but with a few simple, heartfelt words from Nevvie, Mr. Lawyer was suddenly fine and dandy with the whole situation, attending the faculty party at a college where Tyler is no longer faculty just so one of his ex wives can "get hers" for cheating on him. Suddenly the shy, mousy soft spoken Nevvie is a tigress, telling the ex what a horrible person she is, all without really knowing anything about her or the situation (BTW, the ex is anorexic and the guy SHE's with is old and ugly. Cliches abound, I tell you).
3. The overdone Master/slave role playing carried over from the Halloween party into the bedroom when the guys FINALLY seduce her. This carries into the next morning for some reason even though this story could never be mistaken for a D/s relationship even by the most naive of persons.
4. And finally, after an almost embarrassing lack of conflict on either part of HH/h, an awful, horrible, completely avoidable contrived misunderstanding on the heroine's part. I mean, really? After the entire freakin' book, where page after page after page of the guys telling her how much they loved her and to please never leave them, the constant barrage of gifts, the multiple sex scenarios throughout each and every day, she throws a screaming fit and leaves without listening to any sort of explanation at all??? Really???? Of course this is to set up the climax that anyone with a 4th grade education could see coming.
One side note - I would have liked some more explanation about why, when her mother, who having remarried, allowed her adopted daughter, Nevvie to be abandoned by a religious fanatic stepfather. I mean this is a child chosen by her and named after a celestial and perfect place (which I assume was done out of love) and apparently had no issues with kicking her to the curb at the insistence of the stepfather.
Don't get me wrong. I can suspend belief with the best of them and have, numerous times while reading these types of books but come on! Give me a little credit and don't make it so far out of the realm of possibility as to be completely off the planet!!
