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Escorting the Billionaire by Leigh James

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Escorting the Billionaire (The Escort Collection, #1)
by

Leigh James (Goodreads Author)

Steelwhisper's review

Apr 12, 2017

did not like it

bookshelves: 1-bad, ableist, ageism, all-tell-no-show, all-the-beautiful-people, angry-sex, bland, boring-sex, boring, cheating, endless-sex, erotic-romance, fluff, freebie, frumpy, glorified-punter, has-children, has-preachy-agenda, hero-heroine-tstl, horrid-hero, horrid-heroine, idiotic-alphas, instalust, iq-lower-than-age, lad-culture, m-f, meeeeeelodramatic, misogynic, misandrist, paint-by-numbers-meh-sex, panders-to-stereotypes, same-old-same-old, sex-trade, prostitution-fiction, skeevy, slut-shaming, twee, unlikeable-mcs, us-centric, wet-pussy

Lots of spoilers!!!

This book contains the practically exact plot of "Pretty Woman", including all its characters, down to a friend of the hero who gives Pretty Woman's Philipp Stuckey, and a fellow escort of the heroine who is the Kit De Luca-lookalike. Only in this book "Stuckey/Cole" gets married to "Kit De Luca/Jenny" after turning on "Vivian/Audrey". Of course "Edward/James" and "Vivian/Audrey" also marry.

Spliced into this is a double rendition of the vicious (murderous) stepmother from the original Cinderella-story Pretty Woman was based on. Of course we get the golden-hearted whore trope, rich people are all mean, grasping and emotionally stunted, and the whole fucking mess ends with a double marriage and oodles of children.

I'll not even start on how terminally squicky the author's verbiage and mindset around escorting was, because the story per se is just utterly stupid and childish.

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