Review: Pretty Good
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2014
Krinos is Greek for lily, but the female lead in this novel by the same name is no daisy at all. Now positioned to assume the role of leader of a major crime organization, Krinos must protect herself and learn that she is worthy of love.Krinos wants to make her father proud and needs to keep an edge.Then in walks Stephanos, the Greek God, who challenges Krinos in every way. “He walks over to me, and I take him in. He is in a clean-cut, black suit with the most panty-dropping features any man has had.” Stephanos knocks Krinos off her kilter, leading to trauma, drama, and love.The idea of an alpha man, Stephanos, and a bossy-bitch, Krinos, and ensuing sexual tension, seems like a great premise. Unfortunately, I felt that this novel was too short, lacked character development, and went by in a much too hurried pace. It was difficult to picture the characters and their surroundings. More than a few times I had to reread to try to figure out what the heck was going on, and it was a short book!I enjoyed the sexual tension, but the sex scenes were too short and lacked details. The one scene that I will remember involves this quote which I absolutely love!!“It’s beautiful, it’s passionate. I don’t know what to call it; I’ve never had it with a man before. Though some would call it making love, I would call it consuming my soul."I had a hard time writing a review for this book, so I checked out Goodreads to get a sense of what others thought, and so far it has received mostly 5 stars. So I am still going to check out other books by this author. I normally love dirty, mafia-type books, and I think that this could be great if the author got more into the details to bring the reader into the story!Lisa