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Forty Pounds of Flesh

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I've tried so hard to get through this book but I just could not get into it. I am not sure if it was but this book was not for me.

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I'm sorry to say this book didn't work for me, the story line dragged on and seemed like a teenage boys erotic fantasies and was then completely rushed at the end. This one needs to have some more editing I think.

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This was a good book. Some of the situations may not be for everyone. The ending? All I can say is "WOW"!!!!Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the ARC of this book. Although I received the book in this manner, it did not affect my opinion of this book nor my review.

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I am not a big fan of romance, but this book mixed romance with a deep seeded psychological of the main character, Damon, who really needs help!
As things go along in the story, and I am warning you....this is a dark romance story that is not for the faint of heart.....it is also a suspense story in it's own way. The ending is mind blowing. I voluntarily reviewed a copy of this book from Net Galley.

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Well I didn't see that coming. It's a good book championing a man who seems to believe that films show how things can work in real life. Or at least he can write a film and transfer it to real life. You sort of breathe a sigh of relief when he no longer needs to and turns it into, what he hopes will be, a blockbuster film. Is he doing it for love or is he reliving his father's attitude to finding that he wasn't actually the birth father.

A good, interesting, entertaining book

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I am not sure where to start. This was the weirdest book I have ever read and it is supposedly based on true events because of the JonBennet murder. Honestly have no clue where that even comes in. You have Damon who has now found out that he is a bastard son of someone who raped his mother. He finds this out after his father hangs himself and he wants to help others by donating blood and he isn't the same blood type. Then his dog dies, then his girlfriend left him, she gets prego, she comes back, she leaves, they get married. They move. The lies, the convenient ways that Damon finds out about things, the anger the rage and the weird play scripts. There is so much going on but no connection to anything. I could have cared less about any of the characters and they didn't even seem to have a connection to each other.

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First, I want to thank Sans W. Emmert, PhD, Books Go Social, and NetGalley for providing me with this book so I may bring you this review.
Forty-Five Pounds of Flesh by Sans W. Emmert, PhD was one of the most mind blowing reads I have read in such a long time! Many of the scenes left you speechless with your mouth gaping open. No author I have ever read for before went down some of the topics that Sans W. Emmert, PhD went down. It made the story extremely interesting. This being said this story may not be for everyone. It is a Physiological Thriller and it does have topics such as rape, domestic violence, death, and some pretty twisted sex related stuff. Read at your own risk.
One of the main reason I wanted to read this story is the author said it would be a fictional version of what he thought what would have happened 20 years ago in the JonBenet Ramsey case. I am a huge fan of that case and what happened to that little girl. So of course I wanted to see what his thoughts were. Obviously, he changed the names around in the book. I saw some similarities to the actual case-but he made it his own story.
My heart went out to Damon in this whole story on so many levels. Sure he was a messed up kid but come on his only father he only knew died at an early age, he then finds out his blood type is not the same as his “father’s”, that he is a product of rape, and then his dog dies of lymphoma! It gets worse from there! The poor guy can’t catch a break! He had a great relationship with his girlfriend Kammie until a secret that she had been keeping from him came out. Oh it was a big one that affected him big time. I even liked their relationship but did not approve of what she did. I didn’t blame him for being upset with her one bit.

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