I know it is fiction, but I couldn't help wondering why the world is drawn to a young woman right out of college going off with some weirdo, moody, sex-starved, sexually abused oddball who (from the onslaught) is a stranger-danger-hot-potato deviant whom (ding ding ding) anyone should know to avoid. Other than it being spin-off fan fiction of Twilight, why is this so fascinating?
Why is our culture drawn to hard abs, money and a chiseled face and not able to see through this male character as being depraved? Are we that shallow? Are we that horny? Where are the values? Being a mother, I couldn't get past thinking about my own daughter at that age, wondering where this girl's family was, and what the hell was interesting about her being in a isolated condo alone with some older, rich, petulant oddball who has a guest room full of B&D paraphernalia. To me, this book was as disturbing as the Jaycee Dugard dominant/submissive kidnapping. Not exactly a turn-on. WHY is this a bestseller? Women have spent years trying to fight for equality and now this protagonist screams... "Holy crap... he likes me, he reeeeeally, reeeally likes me. Wowee. Maybe he will put his impressive and lengthy cock in my mouth now." Nauseating. Even more so...
why am I taking this so seriously?
I can't help but wonder why women are so drawn to this kind of inappropriate trash. I'm appalled that young mothers (this is called mommy porn btw) are interested in reading books about a young impressionable girl running off in some helicopter with a weirdo, becoming attracted to the weirdo, giving blow jobs to the weirdo (and *swallowing it all), finding this weirdo irresistible, and (finally) not having any gift of fear that her mother should have imparted to her years before. What a horrible role model for young women.
I clearly need to get a life, move forward and... walk away from the book.
*you may choose to see "swallowing" as a metaphor for "acceptance" or decide on taking it as a literal gulp. Your choice, of course.
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