I've read four of this author's works, only because I got them in a bundle. I continued reading in the hopes that something will let up, that things will change from one novella to the next, but I was disappointed, highly. Here's how I'll sum up up each book:
Poor, struggling girl meets a rich handsome guy who instantly wants her for sex, and immediately gets what he wants, while the heroine is all enamoured. Then suddenly, the "hero" is the one calling all the shots:giving her access to all the money she wants(in exchange for sex) but having her followed, deciding what she'll wear (or rather what she won't) etc. The heroine slowly realizes what's happening until the hero says that she is his girlfriend, and she'll suddenly be okay with the concubinage. The hero stakes total claim.
The really is the gist of the four novellas I read. What Kristina Weaver does in her works is to take a poor but strong, hard working, woman, pitches her with a rich, arrogant, and misogynistic guy, and makes her look stupid. Suddenly, with the guy in equation, everything that the woman does is illogical in front of the man's infallible logic. Miss Weaver takes a strong woman, and then completely unravels her. The worst thing about it? Her heroines are deprived of some much needed spine to resist that. Instead, they are all too happy to give up control over their lives, happy being reduced to a sex toy, a trophy girlfriend. I wouldn't be exaggerating if I said that I was left horrified by everything that happened here. It was hard to believe that I was reading something set in the 21st century. I found both the characters unattractive and thanked my stars that these weren't real. That was the only consolation I had, as I got done with what Miss Weaver offers. Hope she stops hating women so much...