This review contain spoiler. 
 Alright I'll keep this review short. Don't hate me, I didn't know this was a "dark" erotica romance. I think you should know by now this genre isn't my cup of tea. So it's really my fault that I didn't like this book. 
 I am not a fan of cheater, and I don't like reading books about one either (my unreasonable pet peeve), Tate slept with her sister's boyfriend seven years ago, and the consequences were quite severe. She was disown and cut off from her parents financially (rather extreme, obviously something was very wrong with her family). She didn't go to college (she was suppose to go to Harvard), she become a bartender and works on odd jobs. She also transfer from a goody-goody into a wild, sexual woman. Seven years later, Tate and Jameson met again, and this time they decide to play a dangerous game with each other. 
 I guess I will never understand how name calling would be consider as erotic and sexy. But that wasn't the worse part of Degradation, there were slapping that sort of things going on as well. And I just can't get pass that. 
 It was obvious Jameson felt something for Tate, but he sure has a funny way to showed it. We don't really know why he is the way he is. But since this was the first book of the series, we probably will learn more in the next book. Tate was a masochist, and enjoy play with fire (not literally of course). So you can imagined how out of control when Jameson and Tate are together. 
 The most part of this book was about Tate and Jameson's sex life. (view spoiler)[ Then the story took a turn when Jameson tricked Tate to go back to her home, where she wasn't welcome. Their relationship became even more complicated. Tate realized she felt something serious for Jameson, and one night she finally confessed her feeling to him. Jameson then decided he was leaving, and asked Tate to wait for him. One month later, Jameson returned with a vengeance and a new game to play with Tate, only Tate was unaware of the situation. (hide spoiler)] 
 The last chapter was quite depressing, and there was a cliffhanger in the end (@#$%). 
 I don't think this book is for everyone, but to each of its own, for those who enjoy dark erotica romance genre this book may be for you.