Delilah's story hits very close to home for me. When children are told repeatedly, by the family that's supposed to love and protect them, that they are ugly, stupid, worthless, pathetic, that no one will love them, no one will ever want to be their friend it gets burns into that child's soul. Your family teaches you about yourself. They are the ones you run to when the world at large beats you down. So when they join in those emotional and mental beatings you grow up to believe all of it is true. That being said, this book was like looking at myself, and how I could have turned out. It was deeply powerful on that front. Nathan's part of this story is still very much a mystery. He seems like a verbally and sexually abusive man who is deeply broken. You get hints of the true man hidden beneath the abusive facade, but it's only hints. There wasn't enough information on his story to truly understand his character. His preference for rough, passionate, all consuming sex at first is hot, but it then morphs into a deeply disturbing violent coping mechanism that ruins the steamy desperate passion they share. I hope the next book gives more of Nathan's history, and continues with Delilah's tragic background. I need a full understanding of what happened before they met to truly formulate an accurate opinion on this story. As a rule do not finish books that don't appeal to me after reading 10 chapters of it, but I've been feeling belligerent lately, so I plowed through Breach, despite rolling my eyes and nodding off a little too often while reading. Lemme start with the stuff I like about Breach, the sex and the dirty talk are hot. Those are it. After reading Breach, I've decided that I am so done with the genre, no more mild erotica posing as contempo romance and no more too-beautiful-yet-damaged-protagonists for me. I guess I just find it very hard to wrap my head around the idea of a gorgeous & successful lawyer in her late twenties to still suffer dibilitating self-pity even after years of therapy. Sure, self deprecation can be charming at times and it's almost too easy to relate to Lila's sense of inadequacy, but come on, shouldn't her relative success erase, or at least minimize, those insecurities? I guess I am just more accustomed to kickass female protagonists (I even have a shelf for them), so Lila comes off too weak and needy for me. Nothing has been revealed about Nathan yet, but as far as hot male leads go, he's more enigmatic and a tad self destructive, which is to say I liked him better than most males in the genre.
What do You think about Breach (2000)?
Too much sex, not enough story for me3.5****Was intrigued enough to start the 2nd one..
—susan
DNF! Just too disfunctional...got to 65%...that's as far as I could go with this one
—soserocky
Nice book, 3.5 stars :D But the BDSM tag is so totally misplaced.
—bob
