The Billionaire’s Muse by Ava Lore (the complete series)
March 11, 2013
Erotic Contemporary
Brittle Divinity Press
Reviewed by Mandi
Oh this book. Why did I read another billionaire hero you ask? Wellll…I received this review request and I went onto Goodreads and scanned reviews. This book was originally published as a five book series, but now it is all combined into one book. When scanning reviews for part three there were many – OMG! WTF! This hero is insane! So of course I had to read it. And uh…yeah. This hero…oh boy. We have much to discuss. I will say, I had fun with this book at the beginning and I initially really liked Sadie. But by the end things had changed a lot. Let me start at the beginning.
Sadie is a personal assistant to her best friend who is very wealthy. During a charity auction Sadie is organizing and working at, she accidentally breaks an expensive vase that was suppose to be auctioned. She locates the owner whose name is Malcom. Malcolm is a billionaire and isn’t too pleased she broke his vase. Instead of taking payment from her, he tells her she has to be auctioned off. And then he “buys” her for one date. So I was thinking, here we go – same old same old billionaire book. But I was wrong.
The next day she goes to his mansion for their date. She has heard from others that Malcolm is eccentric. He has done donuts in his limo in Central Park. He went on a late night tv show and sang a filthy song. He sounds fun right? He does, but we never see this side of him in this book. That should have been my first warning. Malcolm tells Sadie that he is an amateur artist. Now, Sadie really is an artist, she just is a personal assistant to make more money. She arrives at his house, walks in and her first thought is that he is a hoarder because he has so much stuff in his house. She finds him all the way at the top floor with a brand new photography studio just installed that morning (danger Sadie! Danger!)
They really don’t even know each other yet he asks her to remove all her clothes so he can take artsy photos of her (although he has never used a camera before). So now this practical stranger is taking nakey photos of her. Worse? They both get turned on, he sticks his fingers in her (uh…both holes y’all) WHILE still taking pictures. Then he abruptly ends it and asks her to leave. HELLO? Is anyone else thinking this guy is a weirdo?? AND this girl just let a stranger take pervy pictures of her?? But when he calls the next day, she goes back to him *bangs head*
Later he paints her naked body – and ends up sticking multiple paintbrushes up her butt. You guys, why did I continue? Ok, ok…I had to know what happened next.
Let me make a point here that Malcolm is Mr. Freaky Deaky in the bedroom, but he never lets Sadie pleasure him. He gives her oral like he is a starving man, but she isn’t allowed to reciprocate. I kept waiting to find out why. Is his peen deformed? Does he even have one? What is the reason??? I’ll tell you in a minute. Don’t get too excited.
Okay, so Malcolm keeps experimenting on Sadie using different mediums of art. Paint, charcoal, photographs. She thinks he is weird but she keeps going back for more. Malcolm is kind of a sad, loner, weird man. I felt pity for him in the first half. I actually was interested to find out his deep dark secrets in the second half. But his secret is….odd.
You see – Spoiler.
So this is all weird and weirder, but I have to say the weird turns sad when Malcolm admits to Sadie he was preparing to kill himself the night he met her at the auction, and he still has plans to follow through with it. At this point I became deeply disturbed. The threat of suicide is nothing to play around with in a book. You can’t just throw it in and then let your hero wander around lost and hopeless as your heroine is still lying on a boat having sex with him. Come on. It became really sad and uncomfortable and I didn’t like this twist. And I honestly don’t think by the end of the book he was…recovered. If I can call it that. The end is just..ridiculous.
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Looking back, Malcolm is deeply sick and disturbed man who needs professional help. Lots of it. Turned the book from a crazy read to a sad read.
Rating: D
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**Although I read the complete series sold as one book, the series can still be bought separately, and part 1 is currently free.
0_0 I’ll pass.
Wow, I think I would have also continued just because the paintbrush thing sounds hilarous seriously who does that? However I would not be happy to finish it since I don’t enjoy books where the hero is Crazypants.
Oh, I am still dying from the messages I was receiving while you read this one. Sad it didn’t get better. Thanks for the lol review though.
Okay now I kind of want to read it just for the shock factor of the Freaky Deaky stuff. LOL I know I am weird. At least I will know going into it that it isn’t that great of a book but come on! Who can pass up that freaky stuff. I need some laughs!
I read the first installment of this and was really super impressed by the writing and intrigued by the weird hero. I had planned on reading the rest and even after reading your spoiler, I think I still will. I just wish, if it wasn’t feeling wrapped up enough, that the author would write another installment to make it so. I mean… seems like that would be a benefit of serial format :)
I was also impressed with the beginning of the book (probably the first installment). I liked the heroine a lot and the hero intrigued me. It fell apart for me but the author definitely had something going on well in the beginning