Reading Write Now: Eye Telling by Maja Flak

Synopsis:

Eye Telling is an erotic romance.

Katherine Newheart is engaged to her dull fiancé, Matthew O'Connor, who's just been made a partner in Katherine’s father’s law firm.

When she meets The Boy alias Benjamin Riley, everything changes. Katherine tries to hold back, keep her usual control but it fails because Benjamin is everything that Matthew isn’t and that makes him everything that Katherine needs and wants. He awakes her in more ways than one. Katherine ends all tangled up in a steamy hot and passionate love affair with Benjamin. She tries to break if off with Matthew but all of a sudden, he turns into a complete monster and starts being violent towards her, threatening her about some fatal information he has about her family. Katherine can’t stay away from Benjamin, even though she’s perfectly aware that she might jeopardize it all but her love for Benjamin is strong, stronger than her own control. But how strong is Katherine's control when it all comes down to it? Is the passionate love between her and Benjamin enough for her to start doing things just for her or will she end up in her controlling way again?

Iva's Review

Eye Telling by Maja Flak is an erotic romance that contains sex scenes and domestic violence.

Katherine Newheart is a 30 year old in the PR industry, running her own company. She has been engaged to Matthew, a lawyer at her fathers firm for five years, and although everything is going smoothly there is something missing.

Car trouble has Katherine stopping at a run down bar and receiving some assistance from a young boy with a mans body. She is unsure why her body is suddenly so aware of another person and why her nights are filled with dreams of bright blue eyes.

Her life is thrown into chaos and Katherine has some big decisions to make.

This was one of the most difficult books I have ever read and in fact only finished so that I could give it a decent chance at an honest review.

Maja Flak has used a first person present tense that is always a little harder to slip into when reading a book. It doesnt help that there is no flow and ebb in the prose and that each piece of dialogue identifies who has said it. Though this may be because there is no difference in any of the characters speech patterns.

I read the first few chapters hoping that the style was deliberate and that once Katherine had an orgasm, the prose would relax a little too. Unfortunately, it didn't, and I eventually had to stop reading for a while and move onto something else.

Katherine is a complete snob. She is so full of herself that you never feel any empathy or happiness for her. There are inconsistencies with her character and her thought processes are at best; ramblings.

Benjamin reads like a tall 15 year old boy from Katherine's description of him, and it's not until very late in the book that you learn his actual age. This boyish description and the dialogue he uses wrecks this character. He has some good qualities that would be enough to make him a character a woman could swoon over, but sadly the style of writing makes him fall flat. Matthew also shows hints of a fantastic character you could hate with a passion, but the writing cripples him also. Other characters are very bland and don't add much to the story.

I am holding on to some hope that the book has been translated from another language and cultural background and that this would explain some of the problems with the writing, but it would still need some revision to make it enjoyable.

The grass roots of this story is brilliant. It is a great storyline idea.There are, however, too many inconsistencies within the story, too many problems with the writing style and not enough power in the characters to justify it.

Unfortunately, this one only gets 1 and a half hearts!

About The Author:

Hello, as you probably know already, my name is Maja. I’m 28 years old and live in Denmark.

I want to share a little bit about myself and my private life because I want to stay true to who I am and that’s being open and honest.

I’m a single mom to my precious son, Tobias. He’s my blessing and teacher in life – that may sound a little weird but he’s shown me so much, thanks to him, I’ve learned how to fight and to keep on fighting. You see, my son is very sick from some unknown illness and doctors have given up but I haven’t and I will never ever give up.

Last year I read the Fifty Shades book series and loved it, obviously who didn’t?! Anyways, it got me thinking that maybe I should start writing again and let my imagination run wild. I started writing on another story, actually, from a man’s perspective but then Eye Telling came creeping in my mind and I started writing on that instead because I wanted to create a story where the lead male character isn’t a rich and career-minded man in an expensive designer suit but instead a regular but HOT guy who’s not as fortunate. He has a youthful clothing style and tattoos. He had a hell of a childhood but his ‘demons’ isn’t standing in the way of him wanting to be with Katherine (the lead female character).

In this story Katherine is the one who can’t seem to commit.

I never thought it would develop into a full length novel, but somehow it did and I’m so proud to have published my very own romance. It’s been a sweet escape for a sometimes rough everyday life and I can’t wait to share more of my stories.

XOXO Maja

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Website: http://www.majaflak.com/

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