Title: This is War, Baby
Author: K.Webster
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: K.Webster
Pub Date: February 29, 2016
Rating: 2 Stars
Our thoughts...
I went into
this book thinking it was going to be a dark thriller, but alas I didn’t get
that at all. *SPOILERS AHEAD*
We have Baylee the heroine who is a high school sweetheart in love with her boyfriend Brandon at the
ripe age of seventeen who has the personality of a typical teenager. Her mother
is in desperate need of a liver transplant,
and her dad is an honest blue collar
worker trying to make ends meet for the family.
We meet Gabe
at the beginning who is Baylee’s dad’s
best friend. Baylee continually makes references to how hot he is and how she has
dirty thoughts about him. The girl has a
major crush, but of course, she is in love
with Brandon, and they are going to get
married and have lots of babies together. Until…
Que the kidnapping of Baylee by none other then Gabe
himself. There was no mystery surrounding the kidnapping it was all laid out
for us right at the beginning. Gabe plans on selling Baylee in two weeks time
at a sex slave auction and he plans to “prepare” her for training until then. I
never once felt scared for Baylee, nor did I feel Baylee felt that way. She
tried to run once but that only ended in her getting beat among other things.
Two weeks later and he has her all “cleaned” up looking lovely and carting her
off to the show.
She makes no attempts to get away from the place she is. She is not
frightened or scared. She just acts like she doesn’t care at all. I don’t know
about you, but if that transpired I might fear for my life a little bit more
knowing I was going to be sold to a possible sadistic man who might torture me until I died. I still feel nothing from
her character.
Quickly she is sold for a cool five million from an anonymous
donor. Gabe takes her away and throws her into the limo that houses the mystery
man. We finally meet War.
War is an entirely different individual than I would have thought him to
be. He is OCD to the max, and of course, there is a reason which we learn in
the end. Baylee makes no attempts to fight him either and lays down to his
every whim. He immediately falls for her for no reason at all. Why did he fall
for her so quickly? How did she “calm” him right at the start? Was it her
looks? Was it her personality? I could never figure out why in the hell he fell
for a complete stranger in a matter of seconds. I was told everything, and
shown nothing with the exceptions of a couple of scenes. I was very
disconnected in context and that made this book go down a notch.
War and Baylee form a relationship, and she tries to learn about him and
all of his problems while waiting to hear from her parents. She send emails, but only hears a few vague
ones in an attempt to get her to return home. (This part of the story is in the
back round for awhile, and we still don’t know what's going on with her parents
at the end.)
Baylee turns eighteen, and that’s when War and Baylee seal the deal. Right
at midnight. Yep, you heard it here.
After that guess who shows back up to take Baylee back? I guess you will
have to read it to find out. The ending was not as shocking as I would have
hoped. So if you wanted a great review for this story, I just can’t give it to
you know matter how hard I want to. It just wasn’t edgy enough for me. The
editing was great and the whole story behind War being OCD as well as writing
an OCD character were on point, but everything else was extremely cliché or
overdone in my opinion. If only I felt a connection to Baylee things might have gone differently for me.
Two stars.
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