Review: Contemporary Romance
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 30, 2014
I had a difficult time reviewing this book because I really try to find the good in new authors and not give bad reviews unless they're deserved. This story doesn't have much of a plot.  A New York billionaire tired of his family's match making, hires an unassuming young woman, who is a financially needy friend of a friend from New Zealand, to play his girlfriend for a few weeks. In return, he pays for her father's heart transplant. In order for her to agree to go away with him, their mutual friend told her that the billionaire was gay and that's why he needed to keep his family off his back.The characters are pretty much caricatures of real people. The only friendly ones are part of Jayden, the billionaire's family, and even then, his matriarch grandmother is not friendly until bad things happen to Alexandra, the hired girlfriend. The other women and men are users and witches who feel they are entitled to Jay (and his money and influence) because they also have money or because they knew him first or just because they're better than other people.I found myself not caring what happened to any of these characters very much, and didn't find the machinations of the story very believable. There are some sexual scenes, some violence and some mild profanity.Heat factor moderate.