Review: Not enjoyable
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 19, 2014
I loved the cover and storyline blurb.The rest? Well.....Patrick is a Navy SEAL. We know this because the author tells us this every other page. We get random Navy SEAL credo punctuated into the paragraph. He's on leave after completing his latest Navy SEAL mission (you can start humming the Mission Impossible theme song here). He goes into a brothel to pay for sex because he doesn't do relationships. He'd rather pay for a blowjob. After said blowjob the young woman whispers into his ear that she's an American that was kidnapped from a cruise ship 5 years ago. And what does he do? He leaves. Thinks about it. Comes back later and frees her once he's sure she was telling the truth. WTF???There was a lot of cheesy dialogue that I couldn't get past. For example, "sounds crazy, but I trusted you. Despite the fact you'd just paid a hooker to give you a blowjob, I could tell you were a good man."Or how about "you're a job to me, Annie. A mission. An American. I'm a SEAL, this is what I do."Lastly, I want to address how when Patrick found Annie (accidentally) she was not only a prostitute but a heroin addict. Her captives kept her hopped up on smack so she couldn't get away. So not only does she have sex five times a day for five years but she sticks dirty needles in her arm. And of course her STD panels comes back negative.This books could have been so different. The blurb has so much promise. But what we got was something that didn't really work.****Free copy received from Bolero Books via Netgalley***