Review: Alpha Wannabe
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 21, 2012
This book was not supposed to be a comedy, but I laughed through most of it!  Elaina Ruiz is a very young 21 year old college student who was the principle caretaker for her mother before her tragic death.  She meets Raul Vega at her aunt's Christmas party and sparks fly between them.  Raul is supposed to be a hard assed alpha rancher, who doesn't take any crap and when he sees Elaina he is struck with the lust bolt.  The setting is supposed to be in Texas, but the dialogue reads like the Jersey Shore, e.g. "You still got your cherry"...Yea", really?  I had a very hard time picturing this story in Texas because the h/h were speaking like teens from Saturday Night Fever.  Raul is direct and macho one minute and juvenile with his jealousy the next minute.  This story needed some serious editing.  Elaina doesn't tell him she's not an 18 year old college freshman because his machismo scares her burgeoning sexual attraction to him.  In turn, Raul tries to control his sexual attraction to her by claiming her and letting her know that he considers her his but will wait until she's older to take her.  By the time this nonsense works itself out and Raul discovers Elaina is of age to his thirty years I had basically lost interest but determined to finish the story.  I won't say anymore but, trust me, there are no more surpises or plot twists after this, and when Elaina tells Raul that she loves him and he says something like "finally, I love you too" I was done.  I've read so many better written sexy Texas stories, this was not one of them.  Save your .99!