Addicted
A Novel
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- €6.99
Publisher Description
Before there was E.L. James’s 50 Shades of Grey, there was Zane’s Addicted. Once described as “the hottest paperback in the country” by The New York Times and now a major motion picture, this wildly popular novel by the Queen of Erotica follows one woman’s life as it spirals out of control when her three extramarital affairs lead her down a dark and twisted path.
For successful Black businesswoman Zoe Reynard, finding the pleasure she wants, the way she wants it, is not worth the risk of losing everything she has: marriage to the man she has loved since childhood, a thriving company, and three wonderful children. But Zoe feels helpless in the grip of an overpowering addiction…to sex.
Finding a compassionate woman therapist to help her, Zoe finally summons the courage to tell her torrid story, a tale of guilt and desire as shocking as it is compelling. From the sensitive artist with whom she spends stolen hours on rumpled sheets to the rough and violent man who draws her toward destruction, Zoe is a woman desperately searching for fulfillment—and something darker, deeper, and perhaps deadly. As her life spins out of control and her sexual escapades carry her toward a dangerous choice, Zoe is racing against time to uncover the source of her “fatal attraction”—as chilling secrets tumble forth from the recesses of a woman's mind, and perilous temptations lead toward a climax that can threaten her sanity, her marriage…and her life.
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Once sexual addiction surpassed alcoholism as the compulsion of choice on the afternoon talk shows, it was just a matter of time before someone hopped on it as the subject for a salacious, pseudo-serious novel. Zane takes on the challenge, with predictably dismal results. Atlanta businesswoman Zoe Reynard has loved her husband, Jason, since the eighth grade, three years after their oil-and-water first meeting. A big chunk of the novel, which is hokily melodramatic and riddled with awkward clich s ("We were both thirteen, and puberty was barreling in on us like a ton of bricks"), is devoted to the couple's juvenile courtship, consummated on prom night. Now they have a wonderful life, three great children and a catchphrase, "I love you and this is forever! Always has been! Always will be!" The problem is that Jason, old-fashioned and shy in the sex department, has never fulfilled Zoe, and it seems he never will. As the novel opens, Zoe is just starting therapy because what began as a sexual obsession has now become an addiction: for the past year, she has had three lovers in addition to her husband. Jason hasn't a clue, and Zoe doesn't know how to stop. Can this marriage be saved? By the end, the train goes completely off the tracks with a grisly and thoroughly gratuitous murder. Zane (Shame on It All) writes in a conversational style, which seems to appeal to the grassroots following she has built up through self-publishing. But Zoe's journey into the depths affords little more than a cheap thrill for emotional rubberneckers and Jenny Jones fans everywhere.
