DARK DESIRE (Touched By You, #1) by Emily Jane Trent

Dark Desire by Emily Jane Trent




Provided by NetGalley for an honest review.

I'm not going to rate this book because it's a DNF. I just couldn't finish it. The story was all over the place for me. I wanted to pull out my hair.

The story goes from Natalie to Tanner between paragraphs in very short chapters. I'm never sure right away who's point of view I'm reading. It starts with the Prologue. Natalie, meets Tanner, a guy she's never seen before, while attending a concert instead of going to the prom. He immediately makes her weak-in-the-knees, so she goes off to some room with him after he offers her a drink he purchased for her. Now she's never seen this guy before. My first instinct is he's drugged her drink. Didn't her mother or a teacher ever tell her to never accept a drink from a stranger and definitely not to go off to another location with someone she doesn't know? I mean, what could she have been thinking? No one this day in age could be that naive.

Cut to four years later and Natalie has a scholarship to design school in New York. She's shocked that she's been accepted since she's gone to a community college.

Of course her first full day in New York, she runs into this man she hasn't been able to get out of her mind since the night of the concert. Now let me back up a moment. She's picked up from the airport by her friend from home, Ellis Larsen, but then I never see or hear of him again after he drops her off at the place where she will be renting a room. An amazing place, which happens to be the home of a former famous supermodel, Cheryl Easton, and guest instructor at the design school. Natalie questions herself as to why this woman would take on a a border, but never verbalizes it. Going back to her running into Tanner. Natalie runs into him at a shop that Cheryl suggested she go. Once she's talking to him, she never asks him what happened four years ago. She's not even sure he recognizes her, but when he asks her to lunch, she goes. Huh?!!!!! Again with the going off with strangers?

If he didn't remember her, wouldn't she want to at least introduce herself before agreeing to go off with him again? It's not until they are at a restaurant that they even discuss remembering who each other are.

Now a few things show up later in the story and our girl Natalie seems to never suspect that Tanner has had a hand in any of it. Now since I didn't finish it, I guess she could have later, but COME ON! He just happens to be in the same industry she's striving to be a part of. She becomes immediate friends with her much older roommate, who Tanner instructs Natalie, is the only person she can discuss their relationship with? And why is that? And why doesn't Natalie ask any questions of him?

There is so much more that just makes no sense to me. I just can't do this to the author. I can't say everything about this story that seemed rushed or didn't make any sense because I'm not finishing it. But I can say that I'm sad. I really hate doing this to someone's very hard work.

I feel like I'm reading something else since other reviews have been so much better. But I just can't do it. I can generally read quite quickly and I can honestly say it's taken me way too long to get through half of this book. I can't give it more time.

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