Beneath This Man

3 ½ STARSQuestion: why did I read this? Easy. I heard the Audio Book to the first part [b:This Man 16140036 This Man (This Man, #1) Jodi Ellen Malpas https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1352790466s/16140036.jpg 21970768] a while ago in a fit of house cleaning and clearly my curiosity always gets the best of me: Why was this so popular? How does the HEA work out for these two CRAZIES? And yes. My first reaction was this book is headache inducing and Jesse & Ava are bat shit crazy and who actually lives and enjoys this kind of love? And then I got a not all that unfamiliar call from one of my girlfriends once again in frantic tears over the umpteenth time she and her man had gotten into a shouting match & he'd walked out. Again! After some talk and consolation hugs I assured her he'd be back because that's what she needed at the moment and I knew it to be true. Sure enough he showed up in the early morning hours, kneeling at her door and begging forgiveness. Just like that they're back on cloud nine. I later started to really listen to some of the pop music that's on rotation during my work commute: DAWES - “Waiting for Your Call”: ‘When your restlessness has lost its way / And you're finished with your need to stray / It's not even something I am proud to say / I'll be waiting for your call” BLEACHERS - “Reckless Love” ‘So give me a chance to remember / what I've given up to defend ya / that I burned my dreams away / to stand in the broken shadows / of your reckless love / your thankless love.”Yep. We are all batty when it comes to love or sexual thrall. We love the misery because the high is so worth it and no power on earth is going to make us love plain over spectacular even though it's married to sorrow.This is all a roundabout way to say that evidently these authors like [a:Jodi Ellen Malpas 6576110 Jodi Ellen Malpas https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1398113773p2/6576110.jpg], [a:Silvia Day 6572520 Silvia Day https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] or [a:E.L. James 4725841 E.L. James https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1308409727p2/4725841.jpg] have tapped into a vein in our collective sexual psyche even if it's not always in the most artful manner. In spite of our beliefs and declarations to the contrary we seem to like, want or need a good dose of screw-what-should-be for head banging sex with the Sex Lord of The Manor. LOLAt this point everyone knows the story and you have to just enjoy the CRAZY SAUCE ride for what it is or not. I did. ;-)