Review: comfort read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 17, 2012
4 starsGold Digger is a book to pick one up after reading something dark or grueling. I was surprised that it turned out this way, because it ties up some open ends of Special Forces and that one is by no means a light read. Personally, I like this book a lot, because it had the right balance of romance, plot and sex. Wonderful storytelling is included, was expected on my part and I was not disappointed.This book is more for lovers of good contemporary romance and of course for Special Forces fans, since we can meet Vadim again, though I missed his better half. Here we meet Nikolai, Vadim's son and I loved to see them finding their way to each other reaching out and trying to build a father/son relationship. Oh and I had to laugh when Vadim mentioned that he's taken up Yoga and Pilates. I still had that image of him, from the first book in the Special Forces series, the cold and ruthless Speznaz agent all alpha male and then well Yoga, but I digress, since this is Nikolai's book.Galley received through Netgalley, ebook provided by the publisher for the purpose of the reviewNikolai was send on the behalf of his boss and friend to acquire new investors for their gold-mining company. There he meets Henri, the heir to the company, which investment Nikolai and his CEO seek.Henri and Nikolai were hot together. Henri knew what he wanted and pursued it with a lot of determination, poor Nikolai didn't even see that one coming. For all his family history, Nikolai seemed to be strangely innocent. He was surprised by how things turned out businesswise but also was unprepared for Henri and his advances. They seemed to be doomed, since they worked for opposite sides and lived and worked on different continents. I was really curious how this all would play out and how they could make it work.I really liked this book, because it didn't really had a lot of angst, there was a moment but all was worked out pretty soon.  I liked Nikolai and Henri, I liked that Henri did go after what he wanted and that Nikolai, who is a really sweet character, hasn't spent month agonizing about his sexuality. Most of all I liked about this story that it was really vivid, had interesting dialogs, great character with good chemistry between them and that it had a story. While there was not the big bang fight in the end, I think I liked the resolution.