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Corporate Favors alternates between the pollyannish hopes and expectations of Jennifer and the deepening despair of her reality: she is being blackmailed into sexual slavery. Corporate Favors takes this naive young woman down a tortured path into a blackmailed, drugged hell. Author Amanda Pierce touches the fears that plague many of us about what we might be forced to do to protect our loved ones.
Corporate Favors was really two stories: the first story frighteningly describes the steps that Jennifer descended into the horrors of her hopeless predicament. The second tells of an innocent who blithely trusts and who hopes for good. These two stories are melded into one, but I found the horrific tale superior to the romantic one.
Although I was bothered by the content of Jennifer's descent (kind of a squick for me), the tension created by the developing plot was powerful. However, the romantic scenes lost much of the fire that drove the despairing ones. The ending was unsatisfying: too neat and tidy. But overall, I enjoyed the story.
The writing was good; grammar, spelling, homophones were fine.
The rapes and torture are significant parts of the story, so if they are squicks for you, Corporate Favors might be a problem. But if you can abide them, the tension created by the events in the plot is real. I'm glad I read Corporate Favors again today.