Author: M.S. Willis
Series: The Estate #1
Genres: Dark, Erotica, Contemporary, BDSM
Book Links: Goodreads Amazon
My Rating: ★★★★☆ 4 Stars
She was meant to be his destruction…
A pawn played in a perilous game between father and son…
Yet, her strength was more than either man could imagine.
As Maddy learns to save herself…
She becomes the one thing that could set the son free.
Madeleine Clark was raised to become a concert cellist. Sheltered and naïve, she remains hidden behind her music, a protection from the world around her. On the night of her first solo performance, Maddy accepts the admiration of a stranger and finds herself captive in a cruel and twisted power struggle between a sadistic father and his son, Aaron.
Seemingly dangerous and uncaring, Aaron manages the business operations of his father’s estate. Wanting nothing to do with the slaves kept at the Estate, Aaron refuses to take part in the deeper depravities of his father. Despite his resistance, Aaron’s father ‘gifts’ him with a petite, brunette woman he can’t refuse.
A bond forged in conspiracy and deceit, Aaron struggles to save Maddy by teaching her to survive in the world in which he’d been raised. An unlikely union, Aaron soon learns that great strengths can exist within small packages, while Madeleine learns that love and light can exist in the darkest of places.
MY THOUGHTS:
The book was good. It had the perfect amount of darkness thanks to Joseph Carmichael, the devil himself and The Estate. It was dark and gritty and had a lot of gore and violence in it. I loved the plot and loved how music was immensely involved in this book since the cello is my favorite of all instruments (I do not play the cello though lol). But the author's writing was a bit off for me. Don't get me wrong, Ms. Willis is a great writer. I read every single word she wrote in this book and liked how most of the time I would encounter phrases and sentences as if I was reading a poetry. But I think that the narration was too much that it was becoming boring; too much description of a certain thing or scenario in a sentence or a paragraph made me want to just skip to the next good part. But thank heavens I didn't lol since I knew I would be lost if I skipped even a word or two.
My other concern are the MCs, Madeleine and Aaron. I just didn't feel the depths of their characters in this story. Maybe because it was written in 3rd pov, either way, I just couldn't connect with them. There was too much narration that the time for conversations between them fell a bit short for me. Nonetheless, I still liked the book. It was an okay read for me, but I didn't enjoy the author's writing style so much. If not for the dark elements, I would've given this 3 stars.
Trigger Warnings:
The hero, Aaron, did have a scene with another woman---Emily, a whore who'd always been available to him for a quick fuck---nearly second half of the book. He went to Emily because he needed pain or a good hard fuck where he wouldn't find those things with Maddy since he still couldn't bring himself to have sex with her. But what happened between him and Emily was onlyanal and Aaron was thinking of Maddy the whole time he was fucking another woman in the ass (and he used a condom lol). The scene didn't ruin the book for me, though. Aaron was violent to Emily, not caring whether the whore was hurt whereas he was sweet and soft when it came to Maddy. Other than that, there was no cheating in this book.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
M.S. Willis is a romance novelist whose debut novel, Control, was released in 2013. Although currently writing in the romance genre, Willis has plans to expand her literary pursuits into multiple genres and has no fear conquering difficult subject matters in her writing. Willis is a native Floridian who is also a photographer and musician. When not absorbing herself in written, visual or musical expression, Willis is an adrenaline junkie, a 'closet' video game enthusiast, and an avid outdoors person and nature lover.
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