Review: The author should be ashamed
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 10, 2014
Business and PleasureMitch Hightower has been waiting for the chance to take over the helm of his uncle's prestigious advertising agency. Now he can't believe the old man is going to make him earn it by pitting him against some woman he's never heard of. He's even more shocked to discover how good his adversary is...and how incredibly beautiful.Annie Witherspoon isn't about to let some skirt-chasing, jet-setting playboy come in and steal the job of CEO out from under her. If Mitch Hightower wants a competition, then she'll give him the fight of his life. She just doesn't expect the charming, roguishly handsome ad man to make a seductive pitch for HER heart - a pitch with very romantic potential.I expect better of Rhonda Nelson.  I really do.  I have enjoyed many of her books which is why this one is such a shock to me.  Did this get proofread? Edited?  Did anyone look at it after the author's first draft? Doesn't seem like it.The style verbose much too frequently.  An example: "...but is was decidedly less pathetic to be the dumper as opposed to the dumpee.."  Had this sentence fragment occurred in dialog I would not have given it another thought. Had it been cler it was something Our Heroine was thinking I would not have given it a second thought.  But it occurs in the narrative as part of the back story so it jerked me out of the story. So much less wordy to have said "dumper than the dumpee."The unnecessary quotation marks around "quiet time" annoyed me.Evidently there was a reliance on the spellchecker instead of proofreading.  That is the only explanation I have for "this" instead of "his" or "read" instead of "red" to cite two examples.The lack of variety in vocabulary irked me.  There is one character that is consistently described as tiny azs if there are no other words to indicate small or short.  I have no idea if she meant this person was short or a Little Person but the consistent use of tiny made me think she was describing Tom Thumb.When Our Heroine and Our Hero get around to sex, there is no mention of birth control or health issues.  That is irresponsible in modern life.Finally, this story was just so contrived it was ridiculous. Rhonda Nelson is a better writer than this. She should be ashamed.