Review: Good plot premise, execution needs improvement
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 23, 2014
The plot premise had a lot of promise - governor and future presidential candidate is a leader of a drug/gun/slave ring.  The brother of one of the girls sold into slavery kidnaps the governor's daughter in retaliation.  But predictably they fall in love (almost immediately) and it is pretty obvious what will happen to the governor and his fellow bad guys, so the tension that could have been put into the story was missing, leaving a very average story to link together the kinky sex scenes.I like Mary - she had already triumphed over a personal adversity so she stayed strong throughout the book.  Slade was too unbelievable - super rich self made 30 year old who uses his money to fight bad guys - a little too Batman for me.  They had good chemistry, but I'm not a huge fan of breath play or knife play, which consumed just about every erotic scene.The writing was only OK.  The author is not American - so the British English is somewhat annoying (who calls the bathroom in their house a restroom?, etc.)  And there isn't a whole of sense of place - we are told where things are happening, but really, all of this could have taken place anywhere the setting mattered so little.Having said all that, I think the author might have promise, so I went on to buy Blake.