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Sexy Las Vegas bad boy, Damon McDermott, doesn’t do relationships. When he meets Englishwoman Jemma James in a local bar and invites her outside for casual car sex, he intends it to be nothing more than a fleeting encounter.
Then Damon hears Jemma’s only going to be in Vegas for a few weeks, so he decides he wants to have his fill of this hot-blooded Englishwoman before he sends her on her way. What he doesn’t realize is that Jemma is in Vegas working on her blog-cum-book, Going Solo, and that, fling aside, their experiences are also becoming part of Jemma’s book.
When he finds out she’s been playing him for a fool—and nobody makes a fool out of Damon McDermott—he decides he’s going to use sex as a weapon to punish and humiliate her, to teach her a lesson she’ll never forget.
Jemma’s holiday fling turns into something much darker and more sinister as Damon prepares to extract his revenge, but what Damon doesn’t realize is that it will be a gateway into their deepest, darkest desires, where there is no turning back…
Going Solo is a 125,000-word novel that bundles all eight of the “Casual Car Sex” series stories in one volume.
Then Damon hears Jemma’s only going to be in Vegas for a few weeks, so he decides he wants to have his fill of this hot-blooded Englishwoman before he sends her on her way. What he doesn’t realize is that Jemma is in Vegas working on her blog-cum-book, Going Solo, and that, fling aside, their experiences are also becoming part of Jemma’s book.
When he finds out she’s been playing him for a fool—and nobody makes a fool out of Damon McDermott—he decides he’s going to use sex as a weapon to punish and humiliate her, to teach her a lesson she’ll never forget.
Jemma’s holiday fling turns into something much darker and more sinister as Damon prepares to extract his revenge, but what Damon doesn’t realize is that it will be a gateway into their deepest, darkest desires, where there is no turning back…
Going Solo is a 125,000-word novel that bundles all eight of the “Casual Car Sex” series stories in one volume.
398 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 19, 2017
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Storm Stone
20 books7 followersStorm Stone loves reading and writing what she calls ’Hard-Core Romance’. She lives in the beautiful city of Cape Town, where her and her husband run a non-profit organization.
Writing has been a hobby of hers for many years, an escape from the trials of everyday life. Reading created the desire to travel, and she moved to London at the height of the apartheid domination of South Africa.
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March 19, 2019
SPOILER WARNING
TRIGGER WARNING: rape, abuse, homophobia, biphobia
I’m going to say this once and only once and I hope it sinks in: this is the worst book I’ve ever read. Bar none. Not worst of the month, worst of the year, but worst book ever. I’m at a point where it’s already at the number one spot for Worst Book of 2019, and being sad that I had to pay seven dollars for this on kindle. I want my money back. I don’t even know where to begin with this one, honestly. There’s a lot to unpack and I’m tired. But we shall try.
I should probably say that if it hadn’t been for the book club I’m doing with my friend (a NA contemporary or erotica a month), I wouldn’t have ever read this book. That said, it didn’t do anything to sell me on it, and now we’ll try to get into it.
WHAT I LIKED
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. there isn’t a damn thing to like in this book.
WHAT IDISLIKED HATED
Oh god. Where do I start? Well, for starters, the main love interest, Damon, is a complete and utter jackass. He’s abusive and awful. He’s got the emotional maturity of a three-year-old and he’s an egotistical misogynist. I don’t know how completely articulate how awful and unself aware Damon is. Whenever he and Jemma have a fight (which we will come back to), he always justifies it to himself by saying like “it couldn’t be his fault, could it?” and “Nah, she liked it,” and other such statements. And he NEVER learns to be more self aware. I know most erotica heroes are awful, I’ve talked about a few of them (Adam from At Any Price, and spoiler alert for my A Thousand Letters review, but Wade definitely toes the line too), but damn. Even some of the most awful guys I’ve read were easier to hear about than Damon. Or, at the VERY least, on the surface, I could see why the main protagonist was into them (Adam and Christian are billionaires, Wade and Elliot’s relationship ran deep). There is NOTHING in Damon’s character that makes him desirable, unless you count his dick. Nothing redeemable.
On the other hand, our main girl Jemma isn’t winning any awards either. She writes this blog, Going Solo, on the wonders of masturbation, which I guess is supposed to encourage women to “go solo” and not need a man. I say I guess, because Damon gets butthurt about that at one point, but we never get to see any of her articles. We never get to see a single piece of her writing. So we’re told “this is super popular and empowering” (so much that Jemma literally gets a book deal out of it), but we don’t get to see it. She also has a “fantasies” section on her blog, which also becomes a small plot point because of Damon’s sadistic nature, but I’ll come back to that. Jemma literally has no backbone. Not a one. And she’s not very smart to boot. Like, okay. Think of your least favorite “lego brick” character: maybe it’s Bella Swan or Anastasia Steele, maybe it’s Mia or Elliot or a whole host of characters. Jemma has them all beat.
She literally gives up all of her convictions because Damon’s cock is magical I guess. She does masturbate in the book, but never for long, and only thinking about Damon, and there’s no commentary on how masturbating makes her feel or how it empowers her. Which I guess is fitting because Jemma isn’t supposed to be empowered.
Pretty much every single sex scene in this book is a r*pe scene in one form or another. Jemma is either too drunk to consent, which happens at least twice (one of which she PASSES OUT DURING SEX and Damon thinks he killed her. I’m not joking), and the other times she’s just regular drunk. Every other time, Jemma straight up tells him no, and he continues to touch her or do something to her anyway. Which is laughable because Damon says he’s not the type of guy to force a woman to do anything she doesn’t want to, which is undercut by everything else in the book.
He constantly says “tell me no and I’ll stop and leave” and he never does. At one point, he says “tell me no and I’ll leave and our affair will be over” and Jemma doesn’t want that, so she submits anyway. And like. That’s not how consent works. Like not even a little bit.
Damon uses BDSM to punish Jemma for “lying” to him about not knowing who he was. Which is a stupid plot point on its own (basically Damon thought she intentionally seeked him out because of a past scandal to gain hits on her blog and wouldn’t listen to her when she told him she literally had no idea what he was talking about), but mostly I just want to say, if you’re using BDSM as a form of pain, not pleasure, than it’s NOT BDSM and just you being an abusive asshole.
Damon LITERALLY STALKED her at one point and they played it off as cute and quirky and romantic. It’s not.
The entire scene where they have sex in public. Jemma has constantly said she doesn’t want to have sex in public, telling Damon again and again that it’s a FANTASY, not that she actually wants it (which, I don’t fully get, but whatever), but Damon doesn’t believe her and basically has sex with her, in public at this sex bar/club/thing. And it traumatizes her. She hates it. She’s pissed at him. And Damon literally doesn’t understand what he did wrong. You’ll have to forgive me, I skimmed this part of the book and I don’t know if she explicitly said “no,” but I DO know it was something she never wanted.
The stupid ending where she goes back to England, only to fly BACK to Las Vegas because he got in a motorcycle accident. They admit they love each other and live happily ever after. They end up MARRIED at the end of the book. They’ve probably known each other for a month, two tops.
There’s a lot of girl hate in this book.
There’s also rampant homophobia, the d slur getting thrown around multiple times, and the one gay guy in the book being a walking stereotype. And that’s not even touching the one bi character in the book getting the manipulative, slutty, deviant characterization.
In conclusion, and I mean this with every bone and atom in my body, fuck this book.
TRIGGER WARNING: rape, abuse, homophobia, biphobia
I’m going to say this once and only once and I hope it sinks in: this is the worst book I’ve ever read. Bar none. Not worst of the month, worst of the year, but worst book ever. I’m at a point where it’s already at the number one spot for Worst Book of 2019, and being sad that I had to pay seven dollars for this on kindle. I want my money back. I don’t even know where to begin with this one, honestly. There’s a lot to unpack and I’m tired. But we shall try.
I should probably say that if it hadn’t been for the book club I’m doing with my friend (a NA contemporary or erotica a month), I wouldn’t have ever read this book. That said, it didn’t do anything to sell me on it, and now we’ll try to get into it.
WHAT I LIKED
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. there isn’t a damn thing to like in this book.
WHAT I
Oh god. Where do I start? Well, for starters, the main love interest, Damon, is a complete and utter jackass. He’s abusive and awful. He’s got the emotional maturity of a three-year-old and he’s an egotistical misogynist. I don’t know how completely articulate how awful and unself aware Damon is. Whenever he and Jemma have a fight (which we will come back to), he always justifies it to himself by saying like “it couldn’t be his fault, could it?” and “Nah, she liked it,” and other such statements. And he NEVER learns to be more self aware. I know most erotica heroes are awful, I’ve talked about a few of them (Adam from At Any Price, and spoiler alert for my A Thousand Letters review, but Wade definitely toes the line too), but damn. Even some of the most awful guys I’ve read were easier to hear about than Damon. Or, at the VERY least, on the surface, I could see why the main protagonist was into them (Adam and Christian are billionaires, Wade and Elliot’s relationship ran deep). There is NOTHING in Damon’s character that makes him desirable, unless you count his dick. Nothing redeemable.
On the other hand, our main girl Jemma isn’t winning any awards either. She writes this blog, Going Solo, on the wonders of masturbation, which I guess is supposed to encourage women to “go solo” and not need a man. I say I guess, because Damon gets butthurt about that at one point, but we never get to see any of her articles. We never get to see a single piece of her writing. So we’re told “this is super popular and empowering” (so much that Jemma literally gets a book deal out of it), but we don’t get to see it. She also has a “fantasies” section on her blog, which also becomes a small plot point because of Damon’s sadistic nature, but I’ll come back to that. Jemma literally has no backbone. Not a one. And she’s not very smart to boot. Like, okay. Think of your least favorite “lego brick” character: maybe it’s Bella Swan or Anastasia Steele, maybe it’s Mia or Elliot or a whole host of characters. Jemma has them all beat.
She literally gives up all of her convictions because Damon’s cock is magical I guess. She does masturbate in the book, but never for long, and only thinking about Damon, and there’s no commentary on how masturbating makes her feel or how it empowers her. Which I guess is fitting because Jemma isn’t supposed to be empowered.
Pretty much every single sex scene in this book is a r*pe scene in one form or another. Jemma is either too drunk to consent, which happens at least twice (one of which she PASSES OUT DURING SEX and Damon thinks he killed her. I’m not joking), and the other times she’s just regular drunk. Every other time, Jemma straight up tells him no, and he continues to touch her or do something to her anyway. Which is laughable because Damon says he’s not the type of guy to force a woman to do anything she doesn’t want to, which is undercut by everything else in the book.
He constantly says “tell me no and I’ll stop and leave” and he never does. At one point, he says “tell me no and I’ll leave and our affair will be over” and Jemma doesn’t want that, so she submits anyway. And like. That’s not how consent works. Like not even a little bit.
Damon uses BDSM to punish Jemma for “lying” to him about not knowing who he was. Which is a stupid plot point on its own (basically Damon thought she intentionally seeked him out because of a past scandal to gain hits on her blog and wouldn’t listen to her when she told him she literally had no idea what he was talking about), but mostly I just want to say, if you’re using BDSM as a form of pain, not pleasure, than it’s NOT BDSM and just you being an abusive asshole.
Damon LITERALLY STALKED her at one point and they played it off as cute and quirky and romantic. It’s not.
The entire scene where they have sex in public. Jemma has constantly said she doesn’t want to have sex in public, telling Damon again and again that it’s a FANTASY, not that she actually wants it (which, I don’t fully get, but whatever), but Damon doesn’t believe her and basically has sex with her, in public at this sex bar/club/thing. And it traumatizes her. She hates it. She’s pissed at him. And Damon literally doesn’t understand what he did wrong. You’ll have to forgive me, I skimmed this part of the book and I don’t know if she explicitly said “no,” but I DO know it was something she never wanted.
The stupid ending where she goes back to England, only to fly BACK to Las Vegas because he got in a motorcycle accident. They admit they love each other and live happily ever after. They end up MARRIED at the end of the book. They’ve probably known each other for a month, two tops.
There’s a lot of girl hate in this book.
There’s also rampant homophobia, the d slur getting thrown around multiple times, and the one gay guy in the book being a walking stereotype. And that’s not even touching the one bi character in the book getting the manipulative, slutty, deviant characterization.
In conclusion, and I mean this with every bone and atom in my body, fuck this book.
May 23, 2018
This is my time reading Strom Stone. There were so many things about this book. I thought I was going to combust or that my kindle would catch on fire. Now, with that being said there were so many things right at the startup that bothered me. I adored the female lead until I didn’t anymore for allowing such horrible demeaning behavior. There were ups and downs but at the same time, he was awful to her.
Jemma runs a blog called Going Solo. She is self-sufficient, from London and has a good friend in her editor.
Damon is actually scorned and that is why he acts like he does and doesn't really trust. It doesn't help that he has an ex-girlfriend, Helen, that lingers as a well and they are decent friends. Damon needs control and he is a big giant alpha, possessive male.
Jemma and Damon meet when Jemma goes to Vegas and wants to hit a particular place called Alfie’s Bar. She is on a mission. She wants to land a bad boy stud. The bar that is notorious for pickups on the seedy side. She is trying to change things up and see if she can do it. So, then Jemma follows Damon to the car and they have hot sex. When it’s over he literally kicks her out with something he has to do. Just wrong on every level. Jemma tolerates it. Now, after that, they don’t see each other for a week. Her feelings were a bit hurt but she knew the score. Then, Damon had been going back for a week just to catch a glimpse of her and maybe have a repeat.
This is where the book heats up. Let me tell you it sure the hell heats up. They are combustible. There was no problem there. They have this pull I could sense it. The problem for me came with the behavior and its cause. I understand why Damon acted the way he did, a little. I felt it was extreme and downright mean, hurtful and vengeful. I felt it was unwarranted and then our leading lady accepted it because she couldn't be without him. Really, I mean have a bit of self-respect. More drama ensues and not all is what you think. He pushes her beyond her limit and its allowed until she finally grows a pair. that pleased me.
What I did like was that book is well written and the pace just was a good flow. The people, I loved Damon’s mom and his co-worker Jake along with Julia the editor and at the publishing house. If you like a book like that then this is for you.
Jemma runs a blog called Going Solo. She is self-sufficient, from London and has a good friend in her editor.
Damon is actually scorned and that is why he acts like he does and doesn't really trust. It doesn't help that he has an ex-girlfriend, Helen, that lingers as a well and they are decent friends. Damon needs control and he is a big giant alpha, possessive male.
Jemma and Damon meet when Jemma goes to Vegas and wants to hit a particular place called Alfie’s Bar. She is on a mission. She wants to land a bad boy stud. The bar that is notorious for pickups on the seedy side. She is trying to change things up and see if she can do it. So, then Jemma follows Damon to the car and they have hot sex. When it’s over he literally kicks her out with something he has to do. Just wrong on every level. Jemma tolerates it. Now, after that, they don’t see each other for a week. Her feelings were a bit hurt but she knew the score. Then, Damon had been going back for a week just to catch a glimpse of her and maybe have a repeat.
This is where the book heats up. Let me tell you it sure the hell heats up. They are combustible. There was no problem there. They have this pull I could sense it. The problem for me came with the behavior and its cause. I understand why Damon acted the way he did, a little. I felt it was extreme and downright mean, hurtful and vengeful. I felt it was unwarranted and then our leading lady accepted it because she couldn't be without him. Really, I mean have a bit of self-respect. More drama ensues and not all is what you think. He pushes her beyond her limit and its allowed until she finally grows a pair. that pleased me.
What I did like was that book is well written and the pace just was a good flow. The people, I loved Damon’s mom and his co-worker Jake along with Julia the editor and at the publishing house. If you like a book like that then this is for you.
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