Review: A Solid Story about Two wounded souls finding themselves and each other.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 13, 2014
Originally Reviewed For: Tea and BookThree brothers born into wealth but left out of the emotional warmth. Not exactly poor little rich boys but men who have discovered that there is more to life than what their emotionally lacking father offered them. Now they are defining family on their terms, one brother at a time.Jackie Ashenden's Billionaire's Club Series.. It conveniently tells the story of middle brother.. bad boy Donovan Morrow..Victoria DeWinter has something to prove and she is determined to do it. An adopted child desperately wanted by her mother but less so by her father.. "The gift that you can't return". Since her mother's death, Victoria has spent her life trying to be the "son" her brother, the "true child" wasn't. Hoping against hope that someday her father would accept her as his real daughter. Finally, she has a chance. The Morrow family wants to sell some family land and Daddy DeWinter wants it. Victoria hopes that if she can turn this into the deal of a lifetime she will finally be vindicated. Only she has to walk through Donovan Morrow, the "face" of the Morrow Company, first. Should be easy as he is little more than fluff.. *shakes head* when will they ever learn?Donovan Morrow is on a mission to save the family history. While his brother wants the land sold off, it is a reminder of a shady company past, Van feels that it's best to address your history and move on. On further more, he wants that land. He wants to do something with it. He wants to prove that he is more than a face. That the years he spent seducing his rivals wives and girlfriends as a corporate spy was worth it... Yeah,, bad enough that someone would do that but for Van, it was done at his father's insistence. He firmly believed that if he offered enough his father would accept him as he was. The scholar in the family, the sensitive one.. but that self was destroyed and Van knows how to hide it. Finally, he has a chance at personal redemption.. Only it means telling sexy Victoria no and for some reason he just can't quite say that to her.Two wounded souls lost in their family dynamics, both want something tangible to validate who they are and both have to learn that there is nothing tangible. You are who you make yourself out to be. A wonderful lesson.All that emotional intensity does not take away from the fact that this book steams.. literally. I think for a bit there I saw smoke coming off my kindle. The connections on all levels sometimes made me feel a bit voyeuristic, like I was watching things play out that I shouldn't have. Like I was offered a piece of someone's soul..Well done. Although it was too short for my particular tasteAll in all, I would recommend this book.ShauniThis review is based on the ARC of The Billion Dollar Bad Boy, provided by netgalley.