When I picked up this book, I was in a reading slump. A bad one. Imagine my surprise when a book about a girl in a downward spiral and a boy paying her for her kink and humiliation pulled me out of that slump. Okay so maybe it wasn’t a complete surprise, but I was surprised at how soft this book made me. It was hot, filthy and definitely dark, but Patrick and Christina rule my life now with how adorable they were together. The way they broke each other open and laid each other bare? Masterful. Now if only I could reading it for the first time again.