Review: Forgettable - Story needs serious development
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 28, 2013
2.5 StarsThe storyline was pretty familiar, a millionaire afraid of committment meets a beautiful, young, innocent girl who captivates him and he quickly can't get enough of her. The typical factors are at play, the possessiveness, dominance (although this is definitely not a bdsm story), past issues that keep the characters from fully opening up. You get the picture.This book had the potential to be so much more than it was. Okay, maybe not SOOO much more, but at least better. It was reminiscent of the 50 Shades of Grey theme, and I mean that loosely because 50 Shades of Grey actually had plots and supporting characters. Marco's Redemption lacked any complete storylines and all of the supporting characters were forgettable and not even close to having any substance or contributing in any worthwhile way to the story. There were several storylines introduced that could have been developed (Tanya, the Kennedy's, the Lancasters, Natalie's relationship with her mother, with her cousin and his girlfriend, Marco's past catching up with him, etc.). I mean the list is endless. I thought for sure this book would have a sequel with the way characters were brought into the story with a hint that there was some dark back story or that shit was going to come back around and hit the fan, because as I looked at how quickly I advanced through my kindle reading progress, I was certain that there wouldn't be time to make good on the promises. I almost can't believe how quickly time was skipped over in this book and how characters dropped by and never came back. But nope, no sequel, no cliffhangers. I imagine that the author was just suffering from a complete and utter lack of ideas. What a tease. Talk about build up with no release! To be honest, I'm not really even that frustrated because even the "build ups" (if you can call them that - introductions is probably a better word) happened at lightning speed.There were a few semi-steamy scenes, but I found that they lacked originality or creativity. If this book was purely erotica, I could have forgiven the lack of substance. However, it pretty much failed on both counts. I know readers often complain about superfluous length, but this book could have really benefitted from some. I would recommend this book to anyone who has a couple of hours to spare and will be satisfied with a quick, formulaic millionaire alpha male read that won't cause symptoms of withdrawal upon completion.