I appreciate that the author was trying to go someplace fresh in PNR (goodness knows we've got enough vampires and werewolves out there), but I don't think this book was a success.I really hate romance/erotic novels where the female main character is presented as having an important or high powered career, meets the hero, and then doesn't even think about work for the rest of the book. The first chapter takes place at work and Lena literally doesn't work for the rest of the book. The world of work presented here isn't realistic either. It just doesn't make sense that five college friends, all in their twenties, would be able to set up a super successful Hollywood production company - especially when they rely on their receptionist to set up meetings for them and he does it on the basis of whether or not the guys are cute. This is far from a minor detail in the book - Lena's job is supposedly how she meets the male main character in the first place.It was disturbing how quickly Lena adopted Luke as a "pet," buying him clothes, telling people to keep their hands off of him, being charmed by his failure to understand human society (and while we're at it, why bother to create a whole new class of beings for your books but then stick with the whole "he doesn't really understand humans/good sex mates him for life/he is violently possessive" thing that plagues most PNRs?), and telling her friends (in front of him!) very specific details about how good he is in bed. I'm so sick of the message that all every woman of minimal accomplishment wants is a guy who will be willing to have slightly deviant sex with her while being so turned on by her that he'll feel compelled to rape her when he even imagines her with another man (which, yes, actually happens here). While this might not work with an actual woman, Lena is a bit more one-dimensional. She's sassy! She's been hurt by men! She's always on a diet! She likes mochas! Her living room is decorated with high heeled shoes and knick knacks from Anthropologie! She's presumably JUST LIKE YOU or JUST LIKE YOU WOULD WANT TO BE, all she needs is a monster to make her complete (and maybe rape her on the couch!)The plot doesn't really exist other than the sex - there's a flimsy and easily resolved conflict and the rest of the time is spent setting up Lena's beautiful and super cool friends to star in future books. They're women of accomplishment also, so it should be no time before they realize that their entire life was worthless until they met a macho monster to dominate them.
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