Review: Good story, but rushed timeline
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 14, 2013
There will be SPOILERS, due to explanations, but they are not HUGE ones.The premise:  Thomas is in Vegas for two weeks (two weeks, did you get that?) to seal a deal with the hotel where Brianna is the manager.Their attraction is fairly instantaneous, and though they get off to a rocky start they are both pretty eager to give in to temptation.  There are a couple of really hot scenes, and then the part that I take issue with.  I had times when I had to stop reading, and actually read other books before going back to finish.  I honestly forced myself to finish just to see if the plot could be saved.If their situation had been spaced out over two (or even six) months instead of two weeks, I could have believed things a lot more easily.  As it was, while the story progressed smoothly, their relationship felt extremely rushed.*****SPOILERS*******Brianna is a widow with three kids.  While this is not a huge spoiler, I figured I'd put it under here anyway because her kids were my main cause of irritation.  I know kids.  I think most people who have kids, or who have been in the situation of introducing a new boyfriend to their kids will be thrown out of the story by their reaction.  While kids can be super friendly and latch on to people right away, they do not decide on a first introduction to treat strange men as the father they lost.  The teenager's reaction is the most appropriate, then even he gives in and accepts Thomas as a part of their family within two weeks.The other part of this is that Brianna, without any word from Thomas on whether or not he's staying in Vegas, takes him home to meet them.  She supervises when he reads a bedtime story to her youngest, because he's a strange man in her daughter's room.  Good for her.  Then he tells her to trust him to handle her oldest's bad attitude - and she does.  Because a man she met a week ago TOLD HER TO.  No, I'm sorry, you don't get between me and my kids and tell me how the situation needs to be handled when you haven't even committed to staying past two weeks.  Oh, and then there's that part where she agrees to let his sister and her husband babysit overnight (so they can have sex in his hotel room) even though she's never met them.Brianna is professional, capable, and smart.  Insane chemistry aside, she recognizes the need to put her family first.  I totally respected this, and was really disappointed when she still couldn't bring herself to just ASK if he planned on sticking around.