Review: Intense
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 2, 2014
in "Only Pretend" we meet Celeste a young woman whose life is rapidly going downhill - fast. With no money and no idea what she's going to do when she gets there she goes to Vegas. Determined to be wild and crazy, to step out of her comfort zone she hooks up with a sexy man she meets in the casino and goes to his room with him for a wild night of passion. But instead of passion she gets drugged and wakes up to her worst nightmare - she's been taken. While Leonide may be a monster she discovers there's worse monsters out there.The story was told in the 1st person from Celeste's perspective. Celeste is an interesting character and I loved that her inner monologues weren't repetitious which tends to happen in some of the dark romance's I've read lately. I normally prefer 3rd person POV so I can see the story from both points, but for this story 1st person worked for me and kept an element of suspense. Another thing I loved was that there wasn't a lot of excess "fluff" that normally makes me skip not only paragraphs, but entire pages. Every word and every paragraphs is important and pushes the story forward.All in all, a good story for dark romance lovers.