AN INSTANT BESTSELLER!
E.K. Blair delivers a razor-sharp story, tangled in lust, heartbreak, and contrition.She’s an author.She’s a mother.She’s a wife.She’s a liar, a woman marked and bound by her own lies.This is an astounding tale of how one choice knocked Tori’s world off axis, forcing her to battle through a painful year of scandal and betrayal, blurring the lines between reality and … year of scandal and betrayal, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy.
*Previously titled Author Anonymous
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Like watching a train wreck but oooh so good!
See Tori make one terrible decision after another, tearing her whole world apart in the process.
This was a compelling read. If the backstory is true and this really is written from the personal experience of an author friend of E.K. Blair then I’d love to know who, as I really want to check out that person’s work.
“I can see my world slowly crumbling around me, but it isn’t enough to make me stop. Even if I wanted to, I don’t think I could.”
I really don’t know what to say about this book. Tori is a best selling author mother and wife. She spends her days at home writing and taking care of her family. The only time she truly has fun and enjoys life is when she is Madilyn the author at book signings.
In Vegas she learns about a web site that will show her a wild sex life. She is always down to learn new things for work but this twisted web takes her on a ride she isn’t prepared to be a passenger on.
She meets mysterious Alec and decides it’s only on line what’s the big deal? Well it turns down a dark path she can’t walk away from like a drug she can’t get enough.
Her husband finds out and she just can’t decide what to do. This book has a lot of themes I’m not a fan of I wanted to finish it. I was under the impression it was non fiction but it’s fiction. I really didn’t like it. It will well written but the actual sorry the only characters I liked were her husband and her best friend. This was a book where it’s easy to bait the main character.
Spoilers Ahead…Audible Version
This review is gonna be all over the place – too many thoughts and feelings about this one.
Elena Wolfe did a phenomenal job of narrating this book. I felt every emotion while listening – angry and sad mostly. Never a question as to what character she is portraying when she speaks – 5 star performance all the way!
Wow – never ever have I felt so many things listening to a book before. Whether true or not, I felt such hatred towards Tori. She never redeemed herself in my eyes and I wanted to throw my phone and headphones across the room on several occasions. E.K. Blair did an outstanding job writing this book – it was flawless and wrought with emotion. Absolute 5 star work. I was talking out loud so much and cussing up a storm while listening my husband was like WTH book is that.
Victoria/Tori – while doing research on a website called FetLife for something different to write about, comes to the conclusion that there are things missing from her marriage to Landon. In comes Alec – her relationship with him started out on lies, mainly hers…and that became the foundation of their relationship. He was her drug of choice, but at times I wasn’t sure who was using whom.
Landon deserved so much better. I felt awful for him throughout the whole book. Tori did a great job covering up who she really was and what she was doing – he had no clue. If it’s real and he somehow found out about this book, I hope he left her. It was emotional and gut-wrenching to listen to at times. She was a pro at lying and covering up her indiscretions. I don’t even want to get into how I felt about her “forgetting” about her kids – who does that???
Alec was a smooth talker extraordinaire wrapped up in a perfect package of everything she felt she needed and wanted. Why I liked him at first I will never know. As the book moved along I thought he was a total con artist and had a hard time believing anything he said to her. He had Tori hook, line and sinker. He definitely left things out that she was completely blind to…lies of omission. And they were huge.
The ending – WTF is all I can say. I think Alec was a lie – a character he created to fulfill his own sick needs. His proclamation of love when it was already over was easy because IMO he was using her from the get-go. I think manipulation and how fast Tori fell for it and how far he could go with it was his true kink – he got off on it. He manipulated Tori and when he had her right where he wanted her, he shoved her so far off the pedestal I thought her neck would break. I felt zero sympathy for her – not a single ounce.
“I don’t know if we’ll make it, if we can survive all the damage we’ve done, but we take it day by day.” Tori made this statement in the Afterword about her marriage to Landon. This sentence pi$$ed me off soooo bad…WE WE WE WE!!! Ugh. Landon gave her everything until one day she felt he didn’t – rather than leaving him she drags it on and on. I think after their last interaction, Landon truly felt it was over.
After Afterword – Holy $h!T – I still think Alec was a liar from first contact. Imagine the high he must have felt knowing she was still addicted and he could crush her one last time? Totally messed up.
Even if this story is make believe, it unfortunately exists in real life. Even though it made me angry more often than not, I’m glad I finally got around to listening to it.
Knowing this story was true fascinated me, it takes a lot of balls to release your story knowing with the sensitive subject you can’t pretty it up, you can only go by how the events unfolded. I thought I was going to be judgmental reading this but I didn’t hate her or have any anger towards her. I just felt complete sadness for her husband.
My heart goes out to him I hope he never read this book or finds out it’s out there. To love someone the way he did and have them make you feel less than would be devastating. My heart completely broke for him.
I’m sure AA wished she could take back some of her choices. I feel Alec was more of a drug, a fix, an addiction I don’t feel that she loved him, more like wanted him. Alec didn’t give a shit about her, he was a selfish asshat who was in it for the thrill and chase.
My only wish during this story was why couldn’t she be honest. She fell in love or lust and that’s fine people fall in and out of love all the time but it was the constant lying to her husband he deserved better than that. It would be so hard to forgive her for her actions.
I found this story compelling and addictive. EK Blair did an amazing job. To AA, I hope you find your HEA and become the wife your husband deserves.
As with other E.K. Blair books, this was well-written.
I’m not convinced this is a “true story,” but that’s neither here nor there.
The real issue I had with this book was that the characters were despicable people – every. single. one. There were times when I was reading this that I literally felt nauseous at the way these people, who supposedly “love” each other (as husband/wife, as man/woman, as best friends, as parents, etc.), treat each other with such awfulness. Abandoning, enabling, lying, indifference. Ugh. Humans are horrible.
This book…. hit me at every level. My feelings towards this is amplified because it’s based off a true experience and told in E.K. Blair’s words. My mind is going crazy.
This book is about cheating. You feel the excitement, the butterflies, the nerves. And then see everything crumbling down.
I think this is E.K. Blairs best book so far….
This didn’t make me cry, but this story still hurt me tremendously. If you’re married with kids, this will probably hit you hard. Everything about this is so raw and real.
Author Anonymous is a must read. JUST READ IT!