I kinda liked it, it was intriguing, well written and it did have an explanation. It actually did have an ending that explained things up, and it did have a plot. I mean, it was all about sex, of course, a bit kinky and rather detailed, but at the end it did make sense. What I most liked was the structure of the book: every chapter is narrated by a different character - I mean, the four characters taking turns - and that’s very interesting and intriguing. What annoyed me most where the grammar errors here and there, words misspelled or repeated twice or in the wrong order, I really don’t like that in a book (I bought the e-book, not sure about the printed version).
The most intriguing part was actually the strange relationship, very strong friendship between these three men.
The plot is that three men disgustingly rich sort of hire a girl to play their game: they give her a place to live, give her expensive gifts, and decide which days of the week each of them gets with her.
It all happens at the Turning Point sex club. Rochelle has been their girl for three years, but we don’t see her. We meet Marcella, or Chella, as she takes her place without telling them first. Quin finds her in Rochelle’s room and has sex with her not knowing that she’s not her. When he finds out he’s shocked and angry and calls his friends. Bric calms him down while Smith takes her home. That’s how it starts. Smith liked her and went back to see her. At first she tries to pull back but then she gives in because she wants the sex. They offer her the same contract and she signs it like Rochelle did. She’s a senator’s daughter, though, she doesn’t need their money or their gifts, and neither of them understands why she agreed to it. They explain her their rules: the one who likes her the most doesn’t get to touch her: Smith. Number Two is the one who can have sex and get to know her better: that’s Quin. Bric is the one who takes her to parties and can only have sex with her if Smith is present. She likes it, they are very clear every step of the way that if she doesn’t want it anymore she simply has to say so and walk away, but she doesn’t. She has a secret past she won’t tell them, and an estranged relationship with her absent father. Her mother is dead, three years already.
Quin is still in love with Rochelle but their rules forbid him from going after her, although none of them has any idea of where she is. Bric is only interested in the kinky sex, and Smith gets more and more attached, falling in love with her.
After only a month together, she agrees to have sex with all of them together, even if now Smith is no more sure about it, wanting her all for himself. The others would agree but she wants it so they go through with it. They all do it together, touching each other and having sex with her, and she likes it, until the dramatic end, when she pass out and starts being delirious. They take her to her room and comfort her until she sort of calm down. She’s not ok though, and when Smith asks her again why did she start the whole thing she loses it, she reveals that she and Rochelle planned it, that Rochelle went away because Bric told her to have an abortion, and then she storms out with them following her. They run after her, Quin wanting to know more about Rochelle, all of them worried about her. When they get on the street she seems to calm down because she doesn’t want a public scene, until her father shows up and she loses it for good. She starts crying and shouting at him, and it all comes out - well, a part of it, but enough to understand why she’s so troubled. She had said already that her mother was a bit crazy, but now it turns out she was more of a fanatic, which means dangerous-crazy. She not only took her to churches or missions around the world, that was the clean part. Her mother punished her and made her feel wrong and tortured her since she was little, making her feel that sex was wrong, and once the woman even asked, begged some women in Sudan to mutilate her and Chella was spared that only because she had a boyfriend who stopped them with the help of her father and uncles. She yells it all in her father’s face, shouting how much she hates him for never caring and never stopping her mother.
Lucinda, a member of the club, has been her sex-therapist for years. Together with Rochelle they all planned it together, and this is the end of it. She doesn’t want it anymore, she liked it sexually but it also confused her. She did what they think are the last steps she needed to recover: play out her dark fantasies and confront her father.
Just to be clear, the book didn’t imply that she liked that sort of stuff because of her troubled past, what it implies is that she had conflicted feelings about it and couldn’t make peace with the fact that she liked sex because of her childhood trauma.
It ends with a chapter each: Quin leaving messages on Rochelle’s phone, Smith and Chella in love and now a steady couple, and Bric at the club, answering a call from Rochelle where he hears a baby crying and she simply says: “just tell him I’m sorry” before hanging up. I knew she didn’t get an abortion, that’s why she left.
I’m sure the next book will be about Rochelle.
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