Taking Turns

"OMG! I could literally feel the life draining out of me as I read this book!<br/><img src=https://m.popkey.co/cc415d/ygap4.gif<br/><br/>Here are three words to describe this story:<br/><br/>1: Impersonal.<br/><br/>2: Dispassionate.<br/><br/>3: Emotionless.<br/><br/>Even towards the end of this book, I tried to care about the heroine's tragic and messed up "reveal," but it just didn't feel right, I just couldn't. I had given all that I already had! This story asked too much of me and took too much out of me.<br/><br/>I now no longer feel healthy...<br/><br/>This is the second "ménage" story I've read by this author that made me feel this way and I was supposed to learn my lesson from the first time. ([b:Three, Two, One|24235463|Three, Two, One 321 |J.A. Huss|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1422227116l/24235463._SX50_.jpg|43821451])<br/><br/>If you are looking for romance or even good sex scenes, this isn't the story for you.<br/><br/>Here, you won't find intimate sex scenes where characters connect, not even in a lustful manner.<br/><br/>No.<br/><br/>Not at all.<br/><br/>Here, you'll only find IKEA sex, where things go "in and out" then the story goes on as if it never happened.<br/><br/>****!<br/><br/>*rips hair off.*<br/><br/>There's even a point in the story where they're having sex and the heroine's inner monologue goes,<br/><br/> </b>"In and out. In and out..."</b><br/> <br/><img src=https://www.themarysue.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/What-Excuse-me-Say-what-GIF.gif <br/><br/>As if we don't ******* know how SEX WORKS!!<br/><br/>Here, you'll find a bunch of characters who "do" things and don't really "feel" things.<br/><br/>There's a lot of "telling" in this, almost no "showing," especially during what are supposed to be the most "intimate" moments in the book.<br/><br/>No one loves each other or even "likes" each other, with the exception of one of the heroes (Quin) who keeps insisting and annoyingly reminding us how much he is in love with some "Rochelle."<br/><br/>Mind you, this ROCHELLE isn't even in this ******* book.<br/><br/>She's a character who's not even in the ******* book and I hate her so much. <br/><br/>Every time her name gets mentioned, I want to puke.<br/><br/>And the story starts with one of the men having sex with the heroine in the dark, and it was the best sex scene in the whole book, frankly, but every time that little event is mentioned later on in the story, it's for the hero to remind us how much he resents the heroine for having been there in the place of his precious ******* "ROCHELLE!"<br/><br/>Do you want an even further explanation on how emotionless and painfully empty this story left me? <br/><br/>Imagine watching a child playing with dolls, making the dull plastic things walk and talk, but since those dolls are not humans, you feel no attachment to their story as you watch them, especially since the characters THEMSELVES don't even feel attached to their own stories!<br/><br/>Well, that's what this story was.<br/><br/>The author was playing with dolls. <br/><br/>Dead dolls.<br/><br/>It was morbidly life-draining.<br/>This story is evil.<br/><br/>It drained me of everything because it had NOTHING...no substance of its own, therefore it steals yours as you read it then leaves you nearly catatonic at the end.<br/><br/>EVIL!<br/><br/>(Do you know what I just realized? That "Rochelle" is the only character that made me feel even a sliver of anything. I still felt like I was dying but at least, I hated her. And she wasn't even in the book!!!!)<br/><br/>Everything hurts now.<br/>Thanks a lot, author."

"4.5/5 stars"