DNF around the 50% mark. Skipped to the ending to read how that turned out. The ending was possibly the best thing about it - but does it make me want to go back and read through, to reach it? HELL NO. 
 I did not enjoy myself reading this book. It did not make me cry, but filled me with despair, and I just kept looking at the page number, wondering when it'll all end. When I saw I wasn't even halfway, THAT'S when my lower lip trembled. 
 I understand books about abuse. I read them. I've read so many biographies around the subject of abuse, which I'll happily give five stars, because it connected with me, even though the author was downtrodden, helpless, in agony etc etc. 
 This book? 
 HOW THE HELL DID THIS TEAM TONY DEBATE EVEN SPRING UP? 
 He's no lead of any romance material, let me tell you that. I don't care how much we learn about his back-story, I have no desire to emphathise with him, or see it through "his eyes." Do you know when he became absolutely IRREDEEMABLE to me? WHEN HE BEAT CLAIRE UP BECAUSE SHE WAS TALKING TO THAT MEREDITH PERSON AND SHE WAS IN A COMA FOR TWO EFFING WEEKS!!! I mean I wasn't fond of you to begin with, with all those "rapes" and slapping, but that just tipped me over the edge. 
 I can excuse Clarie's need for him as Stockholm Syndrome, but the entire time I was reading, I was hoping she'd romp of with Eric, the driver boy, right on top of her "monitored" bed as a BIG MASSIVE F-U to Anthony, or "Tony" as we'll call him. 
 I didn't bond with Claire, nor did I understand her at parts. HOW CAN SHE BE LOOKING AT DESIGNER LABELS THE DAY SHE WOKE UP IN HER NEW PRISON, WHEN SHE SHOULD'VE HAD OTHER THINGS ON HER MIND? All we get, is she "thumped" at the door for a couple of hours, tried to chuck a chair at the window and breaks a vase. COME ON, WOMAN! In those early days, before you completely lost your self-esteem, you could've knocked out that servile dog-pleaser Catherine (who excuses anything her boss does) and made a run for it! I don't know! I felt the onset of Stockholm Syndrome came too quickly, though I do understand it started of with her, trying to self-preserve and just following his demands, until she found a way to escape. 
 I STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND WHERE THIS TEAM TONY THING IS COMING FROM IN THE LATER TWO BOOKS. 
 When I read biographies of abuse, I'm not sitting there, secretly hoping the abuser will change, and they'll get together! For real. 
 End of discussion. 
 I'm not going to bother with the sequels.