UntouchableAuthor: Ava Marsh
Published by: Berkley
Publication Date: October 6, 2015
Format: eARC
Pages: 325
Source: Publisher
In a toxic world of lust, lies, and elegant hotels, London’s high-class escorts cater to the carnal appetites of powerful men. It’s a game Stella knows how to play, one that allows her to escape the nightmares of her past. The rules are simple: always leave your client satisfied, don’t get involved, and never disclose your real name. But when a fellow call girl is murdered, the game changes completely. And there’s only one rule—survival.
Once a respected professional, Stella knows how easily men can get away with murder—especially when the victim is a prostitute. Determined to get to the truth, she finds herself sucked into a deadly conflict with some of the world’s most powerful men. But while they may consider themselves above the law, there’s one secret every escort knows: no man is truly untouchable.
Whores, murder, blackmail … of course I jumped at the chance to read Untouchable!
Stella is an escort with an interesting background, and we gradually learn her full story as the book progresses. As that unfolds, she gets mixed up in a very deadly situation with some extremely powerful men, and we see how the past and present collide.
There isn’t much of a mystery because we know who did what and why, so it basically comes down to seeing how exactly Stella will go about handling everything and whether she’ll make it out of the situation. And while it’s somewhat slower at times and not as “thrilling”, it had a way of pulling me in and holding my attention. I blame the sex. Not really, but there is quite a bit of her escort duties involved, and I love that it wasn’t glamorous or played up.
Untouchable is gritty and a little darker, which I really like. Listen, I’m not normally squeamish and enjoy some good effed up revenge, but I have to say, even I had to “look away” at one point. Not that it wasn’t deserving, it just … *shivers* Stella certainly goes down a perilous path, and I kept wondering just how far she could go.
So overall, Untouchable is a good book, and I look forward to more by this author.
Entered the giveaway because of the review. You made me very curiouser on why you had to look away haha!
Whores, murder and blackmail, there’s a tagline
I mean I think whores, murder and blackmail will get most people to want to read this book 🙂 Sounds like a solid grity and dark book – Glad you enjoyed it!
Woah! That sure does sound dark! But I’m intrigued!
LOL whores, blackmail and murder. Yep, yep. I can totally see you having a squee as you grabbed that up. lol
Whores and revenge… Sounds like an interesting read, but if you got squeamish, it must’ve been bad.
Whores, Blackmail and murder..sounds like an awesome recipe. This sounds pretty good, even and apparently the sex is good. I do like dark and gritty 🙂
Interesting premise and I totally would have grabbed it up, too. Interesting how the murder is only part of the story.
The premise of her being an escort and another escort getting killed, sounds like an interesting plot! From the blurb I would’ve expected more mystery, that’s a bit strange you know from the beginning who is the murdered. Although seeing it all play out is part of the fun too! I don’t mind dark and gritty books, but I do have a limit of what I want to read about. Great Review!
Sounds like a really gritty novel. Sex, lies and murder who could want more than that. I’m very intrigued by this one. Thank for putting it on my radar. 🙂
Heh! I loved your first line of this review. Who could resist? 😀
I know what you mean about looking away. I’ve done that on some books and I’m so glad to be warned. It also oddly makes me more curious. I’m adding this one to the wishlist.
Okay if you had to look away so to speak, then I know this must be bad LOL! But glad it was in a good way. 😛
Have a wonderful weekend Christy!
I am pretty squeamish , but kind of curious about this anyway o.o and how she handled it.
It’s great that you enjoyed this, sadly it didn’t work well for me. I wanted it to be MORE. I guess I’m bloodthirsty that way. Ha!
Yay! A giveaway! Wow, this book made you look away? I am shocked. Who are you and what have you done with Christy?
Who wouldn’t want to read a book like this? heheheh.
“Whores, murder, blackmail … of course I jumped at the chance to read Untouchable!” totally sold me, haha! And you actually get some nitty gritty escort duties? Yum!
I really love stories about revenge. It’s the scorpio in me I think. But I’ll definitely be looking for this one. Thanks for sharing your review for it!