Review: Pleasant enough story, but the familiar plot doesn't gain that extra spark from the mythical tie-in
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 15, 2013
This was a pleasant enough smexy read, it was the god/goddess tie-in that sold me on this book but, except for a few humorous uses for the heroine's newly emerged powers and 'the parents', that tie-in didn't really add much to the story.I guess part of my problem (and I am going to talk details so if you want to avoid spoilers consider yourself warned) is that I've read other contemporary romances very similar to this one (sans the demigods and goddesses) before.  The indispensable personal assistant carrying a secret torch for her boss who never has really seen her as a romantic prospect, until alcohol (ambrosia the nectar of the gods in this case) fuels a one night stand. She's happy thinking that they are a couple, he wants to go back to business usual.What could have really worked in this one - maybe if it had been a longer story it would have - is that she's going to make him see that error of that decision by dangling a sexy carrot in front of him on a daily basis. But both of the pair cave too easily to make this satisfying - he needed to suffer more - and then when it looks like smooth sailing (which made the story feel very done at the 80% mark) an also easily resolved big misunderstanding pops up to drag the end out.None of that was enough to make the book bad, but all of it added up into making it just okay.