Ally loves her job. She makes good money, has great work friends, and lives in the best city in the world.
Sure, being an upscale escort has its downfalls. The sex is usually bad, and it’s always about satisfying the client’s needs, not one’s own. But Ally didn’t end up in this business for lack of other opportunities. She’s good at what she does and is proud she can command a high price for it. What Ally really gets out of it, though, is a sense of freedom, of power and control that she severely lacks in her private life. She’s closed off from everyone around her, including herself.
Everything gets thrown into chaos, however, when she gets the call for a new client, her fifth of the night. Scott Walker is different. He’s a young go-getter executive accustomed to getting whatever he wants. And ultimately he doesn’t want Ally’s body; he wants her heart. But that’s the one thing she refuses to give up.
Ally is forced to make the hardest decision of her life: to stay in her comfort zone or step outside it for someone who might just be worth the risk.
If you think you've read every story about a hooker with a heart of gold, think again. Sexy and edgy, Client No.5 will seduce you into the intimate world of a high-class call girl, strutting its stilettos into the raw, erotic territory Pretty Woman feared to tread.
Sure, being an upscale escort has its downfalls. The sex is usually bad, and it’s always about satisfying the client’s needs, not one’s own. But Ally didn’t end up in this business for lack of other opportunities. She’s good at what she does and is proud she can command a high price for it. What Ally really gets out of it, though, is a sense of freedom, of power and control that she severely lacks in her private life. She’s closed off from everyone around her, including herself.
Everything gets thrown into chaos, however, when she gets the call for a new client, her fifth of the night. Scott Walker is different. He’s a young go-getter executive accustomed to getting whatever he wants. And ultimately he doesn’t want Ally’s body; he wants her heart. But that’s the one thing she refuses to give up.
Ally is forced to make the hardest decision of her life: to stay in her comfort zone or step outside it for someone who might just be worth the risk.
If you think you've read every story about a hooker with a heart of gold, think again. Sexy and edgy, Client No.5 will seduce you into the intimate world of a high-class call girl, strutting its stilettos into the raw, erotic territory Pretty Woman feared to tread.
When I started Client No 5, I was in
love. I thought for sure it was going to be a 5 bat read for me. I mean it was
lines like this that made me want more.
"I only hoped he didn't expect
some Pretty Woman happy ending because I wasn't that girl."
"In the blackness of my mind he
wasn't an overweight balding accountant who smelled of stale tobacco. He was
tall, handsome, and gentle."
What is not to love and get excited
for, right? Wrong. I thought this book was going to either be romance, you know
the prostitute finds Prince Charming (yeah Pretty Woman stuff), or just
straight raunchy life of a hooker stuff. It was neither although I think the
author was hoping to make it both. Let me tell you where I felt it started
going wrong. She met a client who she felt more than the normal hooker feelings
for. Great start but I was like please tell me she isn't going to just give up
her day (or would it be night?) job. Well I won't spoil it for you but I will
tell you this-I found the "hero" to be a total controlling
douche-bag. I didn't connect with him at all and I wanted to punch him in the
face every time he made an appearance in the book.
"He was trying to be okay with
it but it really did bother him. That was only going to get worse, not better.I
suddenly felt suffocated in his arms."
"...but I wasn't going to let
him come marching in and start controlling my life. He gave me a guilty smile.
"I'm sorry, Ally. I'm just so used to always getting my way."
"Fuck!" I breathed out as
his hips pistoned. "Don't swear this time."
Then there are the total unrealistic
moments that had me shaking my head and asking myself, really?
"Condoms are in my bag."
"We don't need them," he said, continuing to kiss me.
WTF is that? She had admitted her
number of men she had slept with in her "career" and even using
protection, I wouldn't feel comfortable sleeping with someone that had been
with that many people. I am not even sure if they used THREE condoms on top of
each other I could do it.
Okay then the author hinted at some
huge heartbreak that made her seek this line of work. When it finally came out
what it was, I seriously almost laughed. It was so ridiculous that she could
have THAT much heartbreak and be so against love for such a petty thing.
"Love is hard, and it hurts
you. You have to make yourself very vulnerable"
"Love can only ever end in a
breakup or death. There are no happy endings"
Okay so she was soooooo against love
and relationships, yet she was so weak and insecure, in my opinion.
ONE last rant-If I were to have all
her "rules" about what counts as sex and sex partners I could
convince myself that I was a virgin again!
While this book fell short in many
places for me, I did appreciate the ending where Ally grew a fricking backbone
and took control of her life. She quit whining about it and just did it. The
beginning and ending were really good for me. It was just everything in between
that felt rote.
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