I can't believe how angry this book made me! I was so excited to read my first "mail-order-bride" type of book, and I think it might be my last. 
 I STILL have no clue WHY she married him. I guess she was just bored with life and wanted babies? Because the only connection they really had was the sexual chemistry. Trust me, I'm all about following hot guys with chemistry (I fell in love my my husband on the first date!), but seriously? Marrying a guy she has nothing in common with, and even fights with before the wedding, just because she fell in love with him?!? 
 I think that caused me to already be pretty on-the-fence with this book, but I might have liked it if Reese wasn't such a horrible jerk. What in the world did she see in him?!? I wanted to feel sympathy for him, and sometimes he would almost do something nice, but he was so unlikable to me that I nearly didn't finish the book! 
 The whole book I struggled to understand Maddie. I never understood her behavior or motivations, and why was she always described like she was mellow and calm, when she was always fighting? And I guess we're supposed to view her as strong and tough, but I felt like she put up with SO much more than I EVER would have, and I'm by no means a feminist. Reese is AWFUL to her, verbally abusing her, yelling at her all the time, he freaks out about EVERYTHING, and he treats her like a slave. 
 And the sex. 
 Reese uses her daily, and never with love or tenderness, but always because he just can't keep his hands off her. There's TONS of sex in this book, but none of it sounded enjoyable. It was always painful and fast and selfish. 
 Gah, I hate Reese... 
 I'm still so surprised that I didn't like this book, especially because I loved After the Night, and this had a similar style to it. However, in After the Night, I LOVED the characters, I understood their motivations, and the sex was steamy and fantastic. Also, I think there's a fine like with jerk-heros, and Reese was just too far on the jerk side of that line for me to ever love him like I did Gray.