Saving Grace: The Fall of an Heiress Review ★★

 

I wish I could give this book, Saving Grace: The Fall of An Heiress, a much better book review than I am. I know the writer AJ Luna and being a writer myself; I know how difficult it is to sit down at your computer, day after day, and pour your heart and soul into a book only for it to flop and not hit its intended mark.

However, the glorious thing is, we can fix all mistakes—especially when you are an Indie Author like we are. Now, let me shut my trap and speak from the perspective of an audience member who sat down and read this book.

Saving Grace: The Fall of An Heiress is the life story of Mary Elizabeth Kelly, AKA Gypsy. A young woman from a politically powerful family, but everything isn’t as it seems on the inside. Gypsy’s father is a filthy pig of a man who abuses his daughter in the shadows and when she is sixteen, she runs away from home deciding that being on the streets would be a better life that to live one more second under her father’s rule.

These are ALL incredible plot points, but what I found when I opened my edition on my iPad to read wasn’t what I bargained for.

Now, I must preface this for readers that I don’t read a lot of erotic stories, but that doesn’t mean that I haven’t enjoyed reading some erotica in my time. Anne Rice’s Sleeping Beauty Trilogy is incredible, and I would highly recommend it, but for me, reading Saving Grace, I felt more like I was just reading cheap smut and I fell like there is a definite difference between cheap smut and romantic erotica which the book is categorized under.

I won’t speak on the grammatical errors in the book that are a narrative distraction all on their own and try to focus just on the plot itself.

The book often read like a virgin copying into a written context what they saw in hardcore pornography which, I suppose for modern day erotica would hit the mark for readers if that is what they are looking for, but in my very limited experience with erotica the sex scenes didn’t hit the mark for me and maybe that was intentional on the writers part. Men degrading women aren’t my cup of tea and I often felt like the MC Gypsy was a flighty, indecisive, and weak character just because of all of her poor choices. Normally, I would feel sorry for a character like this, especially when they are the heroine of a story, but sometimes as I read, I felt like Gypsy was getting exactly what she deserved as punishment for all of her poor choices.

From part one of the story to the end of part two, the story mainly comprised chapter after chapter of sex scenes between Gypsy and her high paying clients and the story didn’t pick up speed until the last chapter of part two and it progressed into a quick paced story until the end from there were all the bad men in the story got what they deserved and rightly so for being the subhuman individuals that they were throughout the entire narrative.

In sum, it’s not an awful story, but the author could improve it with a little more polishing.