Official Review: Glue by DW Plato

[kislany]

[Following is an official OnlineBookClub.org review of "Glue" by DW Plato.]

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2 out of 4 stars

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Glue is the first book in DW Plato’s erotic fiction series. The book blurb talks about “A love story full of drugs and betrayal … Fast-paced and edgy, Glue will take you on a roller-coaster ride and leave you craving more.” Sadly, that was not my experience while reading it.

The beginning was interesting enough. Dacia is a young woman living in a trailer village. One day, a neighbor goes to her trailer and has sex with her. Soon, the guy leaves his wife and moves in with Dacia and later marries her. He verbally abuses her and gives her quite a hard time for about 18 months until Dacia leaves him. She already has a new job waiting for her some 500 miles away from her current location, so she makes a hasty exit in her car.

However, instead of moving on and living a fulfilling life, Dacia gets hooked on drugs and engages in high-frequency casual sex. She has sex with strangers she has just met; she has a threesome with her best friend and her husband; she is not shy to engage in orgies with strangers. Rape is just hard sex. Soon, she becomes a drug (coke and meth) and sex addict.

Based on the blurb, I expected a romance novel with heavy erotic scenes. I am no prude; I love Fifty Shades of Gray, along with the rest of the series. But this book has no romance, and it is not really erotic. To be erotic, it should arouse some desire in the reader, and the sex scenes should be “steamy.” Glue is, has, and does none of those things.

I would constantly shake my head at someone who could lower her standards so much that she would become the trash of the neighborhood. If I were to summarize this book in two sentences, the summary would be, “This book is about a woman who does drugs, alcohol, and sex with anyone she meets. It also features a lot of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs.”

At one point, there was an attempt at romance with a shorter guy who was in love with her, but she cheated on him so many times that he eventually left.

Besides all the issues I mentioned above, the book needs a professional editor. The story is full of grammatical and punctuation errors like comma splices, missing words, missing periods at the end of sentences, missing subject-verb agreement (“It wore on me, his insults and cut-downs”), missing commas after introductory phrases, semicolons used instead of commas, and the list goes on.

For these reasons, I give Glue by DW Plato 2 out of 4 stars. I don’t give it one star because the beginning had promise, and I enjoyed reading that part. Also, the end tried to redeem itself, but it felt slightly rushed; the story was wrapped up in a neat little bow just to give it a happy ending. I could probably recommend it to readers who love erotic novels where rape, rough sex, gang-banging, and non-discriminatory sex with strangers (with or without condoms) are the norm, and where the only emotions in the book emerge distorted through the haze of drugs.

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[stacie k]

And this is the first of a series? Thank you for your honest review. There doesn’t seem to be any redeeming quality about this book. I will pass on this one!

[Cristina Chifane]

The title and cover looked promising. I am sorry it turned out to be such a disappointment. I like reading erotic novels from time to time, but I can't say yes to a story focusing so much on drugs, alcohol or random sex. If the beginning and ending had something good about them, then maybe the author could accept some of your suggestions and rewrite some parts. Thorough proofreading seems to be needed too. Thank you for your review!

[kandscreeley]

First, this really isn't my genre at all. Secondly, if it was, I definitely wouldn't read this book based on the description you give. I'm not sure what the author was going for, but it doesn't sound like he hit the mark. Perhaps as a first in the series, he wanted to set the scene as to how bad things were and then it gets better later?? One can only hope. Anyway, thanks for the review. I won't be reading this one.

[Poppy Drear]

I really prefer erotic romance to the type of no-holds-barred erotica this seems to be. It just isn't the kind of story that interests me; I find it rather sad. That, combined with the grammatical errors, means I won't be giving this book a try.

[Sahani Nimandra]

OMG! I can clearly understand how you feel despite the errors. The last book that I read was similar to this one with hard core sex and erotica but with sexual violence and abuse in a great degree, plus drug deals. For me Dacia sounds like person who really needs help, specially after a escaping a abusive relationship, she is clearly damaged. Since I have read a book similarly to this I wont approach this book for now. Thank you Kislany for sharing your honest review, it gave me a better picture!

[[Valerie Allen]]

Sorry, I could not continue to reading the review due to multiple spoiler alerts.

[kislany]

stacie k - Thank you for stopping by. I wish I felt differently about the book.

cristinaro - I don't mind reading erotic novels either as long as there is substance to the story.

kandscreeley - At times I was wondering whether this was the biography of someone the author knew rather than an actual steamy erotic novel.

ViziVoir - Sadly, there was no romance in this book at all.

Sahani Nimandra - I think I will stay away from this genre for a while as well. It could be the fact that in all my 50 years, I've never taken drugs, so I might not be able to relate to an addict at all. Maybe they really all behave like this, I don't know. Based on this book, I'm glad I was never tempted.

[revna01]

It sounds like the author just really enjoys writing something as pornographic as it gets; nevermind a developing storyline. I'm not a fan of erotica, but this sounds downright distasteful, at best. Thank you for the review

[suzie003]

it really sounds like the author is writing something as pornographic... it is very disgusting and distasteful

[Seashel12]

Actually I think this book sounds like one I do want to read based on the reviews. I can relate to Darcia as she is described as I have worked in the field of addiction and this is the story of many of the women I have worked with. I hate to shock the reading audience, but this happens more often that I care to say. Perhaps the fact that this is so shocking to so many indicates the lack of education regarding addiction, how one falls into the grips of it, and the reality of the how the brain controls one's behavior; thereby one's choices and conseqeces.

[kislany]

You have an interesting point there, Seashel12. Pretty sure I am not educated on all things drugs. I've been sheltered from drugs all my youth (I guess it's one of the few perks of growing up in an Eastern-European country: drugs were not available to us back then). First time I've actually heard the name of anything stronger than valium was at the age of 21, when I left the country, and by then my life was way too complicated to even think of drugs. So maybe I was lucky that I never really came into contact with them in my youth, and then later, I never saw their appeal. So thank you for your comment, this definitely brings another perspective.

I did feel throughout the entire book that the author has written more of a biography rather than an actual novel, and your comment makes me believe it even more so.

[Biigggg]

The book Glue by DW Plato, is a good book it speaks about love and drugs, it is true many people are involved in abusive relationships and many are on drugs to relieve stress, love is portrayed differently in another manner, lts a good book to read

[NL Hartje]

What a sad letdown for you. It's disappointing that more and more often books with rape, forceful, or unrequited sex scenes are labeled as "erotic."

[Libs_Books]

What a strange book - it sounds as though it has some potential as serious social comment, but to try to sell it as 'erotic fiction' seems obscene.