Monday, December 2, 2013

Escaping Reality Review

Title: Escaping Reality

Author: Lisa Renee Jones

Publish date: July 22nd 2013

Publisher: Julie Patra Publishing 

Genre: New Adult Contemporary

Pages: 250

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars

Synopsis: (Via Goodreads)

Infinite possibilities….
Infinite passion…..
Infinite danger….
His touch spirals through me, warm and sweet, wicked and hot. I shouldn’t trust him. I shouldn’t tell him my secrets. But how do I not when he is the reason I breathe? He is what I need.

At the young age of eighteen, tragedy and a dark secret force Lara to flee all she has known and loves to start a new life. Now years later, with a new identity as Amy, she’s finally dared to believe she is forgotten–even if she cannot forget. But just when she lets down her guard, the ghosts of her past are quick to punish her, forcing her back on the run. 
On a plane, struggling to face the devastation of losing everything again and starting over, Amy meets Liam Stone, a darkly entrancing recluse billionaire, who is also a brilliant, and famous, prodigy architect. A man who knows what he wants and goes after it. And what he wants is Amy. Refusing to take “no” as an answer, he sweeps her into a passionate affair, pushing her to her erotic limits. He wants to possess her. He makes her want to be possessed. Liam demands everything from her, accepting nothing less. But what if she is too devastated by tragedy to know when he wants more than she should give? And what if there is more to Liam than meets the eyes?


The book follows Amy who is in danger and has to go into a program almost like the Witness Protection Program. She is changing her whole life a second time when the book starts and she is forced to pick up and leave her city to go to a new home. On the airplane she meets Liam stone who is mysterious and entices her. They get to know one another on the plane ride home and the relationship goes from there. 

I read up to chapter 8 where I had to put the book down and stop reading. The main character was very unlikable and very unrealistic. One second she was worried about her life being in danger and then she was worried that Liam did not want her. Amy was a very aggravating character to read about and she made me want to tear my hair out. With Liam he was the average rich and mysterious boy that everyone finds undeniably attractive. After being on the plane for FOUR hours Liam gives Amy a ride home and then they have a sexual encounter. This aggravates me because she thinks he could put her in danger and risk her life, but then she's like 'yeah! Lets have sex in the hallway of my new apartment building!'. The sex aggravated me, because they barely knew one another and Amy is complaining about how she has a new identity, because of her mysterious past, and then she just gives herself to the guy that she believes to have apart in the whole Witness Protection Program.  I definitely discourage anyone from reading this book.



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