Book Review: "The Power Couple" By Alex Berenson

 

The reason I'm rating this one low is quite simple: I for one hope and pray women will stop being painted as nothing more than meat markets, eye candy, sexual favors. 

It's ad nauseum having several reasons that offended me as a strong female. First, the kidnapping and subsequent ransom for Kira while forcing her to conduct business on her captors wasn't cool.

 The fact the author seemed to write it into the script like it meant nothing to perform these oral acts and sexual actions wasn't sitting well. The notion that the word 'twat' was used to describe the vagina in which items were hidden just added up to a lack of disgust.

At this point I wondered where or when the strong feminine roles would enter the scene and eventually Kira escaped her two ass-hat abductors.

Rebecca the mother also felt like the odd ball as she's going on for getting along both in her career and her marriage. Does anyone think on their own and not settle?

Well, supposedly both parent (Rebecca and Brian) had a shady past involving Russians, espionage, high stakes money, and more.

In the end, they discover that "Till death do us part" takes on a bit of weirdness in which each tries to take the life of the other using whatever items necessary.
Where does a FBI agent get epinephrine is my first question?

How does one make a boat ride turn into a heart attack....well, I can't tell but it's nuts.
In addition, the entire premise was to be about Kira but it turns out she's busy playing with fire and escaping while her parents were looking for her but then somehow started this back story power play into each other's past history.

I think for me it would've been better to know the past history prior to the teen going missing as it all became quite a mess mid stream with abductions, casino tie -ins, Fyodor, and Russian involvement, and all that jazz at the dance club while conducting a search and rescue.
Too much is too much for me.

Thank you to Alex, the pub, NetGalley, and Amazon Kindle for this ARC in exchange for this honest review.