Destiny Mine is the much anticipated 3rd installment in a series that has inadvertently revolutionized dishwashing for women across the globe. Ever siDestiny Mine is the much anticipated 3rd installment in a series that has inadvertently revolutionized dishwashing for women across the globe. Ever since reading Obsession Mine, I personally get excited thinking of Peter whenever I see my kitchen sink. (If that isn’t happening for you, you might want to go back and reread book 1, or check with your doctor.)
But I digress.
I’ll be honest, Anna Z. kinda sorta fucked us over with this book as far as the ability to craft a decent review, because you’re essentially traipsing through a landmine of spoilers everywhere you turn, and one wrong word about who does or doesn’t get killed or how many hot bondage and backdoor erotica scenes there are where you wanna cut a doctor bitch just so you can take her place underneath Peter could land you in hot water. (Or preferably a hot shower in a really sexy blowjob scene featuring Peter.)
So I’ll just say that Destiny Mine contains a ton of set-up for book 4, which will be the final installment of Peter & Sara’s story. This book also really delves into the complex emotional and psychological hurdles for Sara as a grown woman unwittingly attracted to and falling in love with the criminal vigilante (Peter) who once waterboarded her and executed her husband for his involvement in the death of Peter’s family.
I can see how there may be a few frustrating moments for some readers with this book where you wish Sara was just a little more shallow or in possession of a lower emotional quotient and inferior moral compass so that she could get over her self-loathing at loving her husband’s killer faster—you know, so that the rest of us (who all pretty much agree her late journalist husband was a giant boob compared to Peter at this point, right?) can get back to enjoying our Peter sexy-time. But then we might feel compelled to scoff at her flat, one-dimensional character development.
As a dark romance novel critic, it’s often a tough call whether you wanna go the impatient horndog don’t-give-me-storyline-and-feelings-with-my-erotica route, climb the self-righteous soapbox, or simply opt for a pseudointellectual rant in your book review.
Not gonna lie, I paid $5.99 to have sex with Peter Sokolov. Straight-up. And I’d do it again. (But I’m pc enough to pretend to care about Sara’s feelings, too, so that I come across as a better person in my book review.)
But in all seriousness, at the end of the day, I like Peter too much to want to see him with a blow-up doll version of Sara who lacks inner conflict and emotional depth. And for me, an emotional payoff heightens the sexual payoff in romance and erotica novels. I am very much invested in these two and looking forward to more of them in book 4. :)...more
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