Goodreads Challenge PLUS Review of Married to the Trillionaires by Ella Mansfield

So, I’ve never taken part in the Goodreads challenge before, mostly because I rarely write reviews. But as an Indie author, I realize how precious reviews are and I’m trying not to be a hypocrite! Hehe. 

Yesterday’s review was of a book I read for the challenge and today’s is also. Now, how many books have I committed myself to? 365. Yep, one a day. And the hardest part won’t be the reading, but the reviewing lol. 

But let’s get down to it:

MARRIED TO THE TRILLIONAIRES

Ella Mansfield

Three stars 

I’ve glanced through some of the reviews on this on Goodreads and I thought some of them were pretty harsh. I actually liked the concept of the book. In the future, men have to group together to buy fertile women. Not only if they want to have children of their own, but also, just to get laid. 

Women are rare in these times, thanks to a genetic experiment that went wrong and left women infertile. A religious group rejected the idea of tampering with nature and only they produce girl babies.

So, yeah, far-fetched? But come on, it’s the story! 

I quite liked it, tbh. Menage is my cup of tea, why do you think I write what I write? But I didn’t like the way the men in the story treated April.  All of them!

Not only is she a virgin but she’s sheltered and her father auctions her off to some of the richest men in the country… and she accepts it? Huh. Yeah. Don’t think so. She’s all, ‘Well, my father wants the money…’ It takes her running out into the garden and shedding a few tears for her to come to terms with her fate. Okay, so I do like some realism in my books. And this certainly isn’t usual behavior! 

Then, after being purchased, the men immediately start fu*king her. They don’t care if she’s sore or hurt or in pain. They’ve just paid trillions for her, they’re going to get their money’s worth. 

In fairness, I think if the story was longer then we might have seen different sides to the guys. I’d have liked the story to be longer, or set in a series, so as to come to terms with the characters. Most of the guys seemed like knobs to me and they were hard to like. It was almost like reading dubious consent sex with an orgasm at the end. I felt like April was in some kind of Stockholm Syndrome kind of relationship… she just accepted it all too easily. And I don’t care how gently bred or submissive a woman is, there would be some reaction to the myriad stuff that goes down in this book! 

So… yeah, I liked the idea of it. It was well written in the sense that it wasn’t filled with mistakes but the plot was too big for the word count. Hence, three stars. Would I read Mansfield again? Yep. :)