Review: All I can say is WTH? Are you kidding me????
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 26, 2012
That is 4 hours of my life I will never get back! NOT a romantic suspense as I thought.**Spoilers**Mercenary Stefan has been shot and is dying is a post office. Cycling champ Marcelle stumbles over him, kills the terrorist after him and saves Stefan's life. Has a doctor patch him up. As he recoups at her home, he falls "in luv" with her quickly. Mr. Big Bad Mercenary makes her tea, holds her in her sleep night after night and calms the nightmares, ALL without crossing the line ravaging her while she still mourns her dead racecar champ husband (whom she dwells on ad naseum)! When they finally talk about their pasts we get pages & pages of annoying, stupid detailed fodder about his high IQ, military service, brutal killing with no remorse and her abuse by & murder of her stepfather, her years on the run, living as a boy ??? (yet she is Be-U-Ti-ful :0.Can it get worse you ask? OH HELL YEAH. We have to meet a million stupid nonessential characters and go through boring days of laundry, eating & dishes. By about halfway through the book, they FINALLY kiss. Then we speed forward to when they have coitus interuptus x2 in one evening. Later that SAME night (in the ONLY luv scene not described) she apparently wakes him with kisses and they "make love". He thinks great, she loves me, we can be married & have kids. She is now over dead husband.... oh yeah???? Nope. Hours later he wakes up wanting seconds and she calls him hubby's name and then accuses him of taking advantage of her "knowing" she thought he was the hubby. (HUH?) SO, he proceeds to rape her- violently. Then he bathes her, apologizes and proceeds to cry like a big baby. She leaves for her 3-day race (but cannot sit on the bike due to the assault). He leaves her a short note which (falls under the fridge)& takes off to go kill more bad guys. She comes home & cries.Book comes to a SCREAMING halt. Now they want you to waste money on books 2 & 3. SO not happening!