3.5 Smooches!
Synopsis
Bonjour, my name is André Chevalier. It has been my joy and my great honor to help those who have lost their way. Not long after I began my journey, I met two such wounded souls.
Renata Koreman, my little mouse. She came to me as a child—shy, mute, injured… broken. It took oh-so many years to start to bring her back to herself! Yet, I could not fully heal her.
Years later, Grant Wilkinson, he too fell into my hands. The ex-Army Ranger was badly disfigured and saw himself as a monster. Isolated by secrets, solitary and self-contained, his colleagues affectionately named him ‘Frosty.’ Yet, how should one behave when besieged by a lifetime of confusion and guilt?
The moment I saw him, I thought of her and I wondered. The eyes, they cannot always see clearly. And the heart? Ah, the heart can only guess at the truth. So it was that I remained uncertain.
Could the mouse and the monster heal each other?
Review
Grant Wilkerson is an ex-Army and Champion Marksman. His demons have ruled his life for too long and seeks out the help of André Chevalier. The abuse that Grant went through as a child has altered his ability to love and have sex without having to pay for it. André then knows the next stage helping Grant would involve a sexual surrogate. Renata Koreman has been abused as well and it’s a work in progress for her. She enjoys helping men with their sexual obstacles. The chemistry is instant between Grant and Renata but these two broken people have their issues to work through and André believes they can work on it together.
There are a lot of moving parts in this book. All characters have their issues of abuse: sexual and substance. And I honestly had a difficult time reading this book. I have enjoyed books by Nikki Sex before and this one had a different taste in my mouth. I empathized for the characters and their issues. Dark issues, as they may be, I wanted the best for the characters. ‘Abuse’ is a very descriptive read and sometimes felt like I was reading an article about these issues. Especially when I would look at the location in the book and wonder where the love interest would be introduced. The author comprised the book into three sections. Although we did get the character history and their stories, I was left to wonder how much longer until these two get to be together. I felt the book ended at a weird spot, almost as if the relationship was just beginning to develop. The book ended in a cliffhanger, so beware. In spite of the fact that it took some work for me to get into, I do feel there are a group of readers that will truly enjoy this book. 3.5 smooches for Abuse by Nikki Sex.
~Sarah
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