Review: Lots of angst and lots of love
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2014
***SPOILERS***Okay so...the hero is a douchebag and the heroine is a b****. Having said that, I really enjoyed this book! Yes, Christophe is a douchebag, but he's a sweet douchebag who's loved the same woman nearly his whole adult life. And yes, Annata is a b****, but she's a b**** who cares fiercely for the people she loves, including said douchebag. I know a lot of reviewers are saying that Annata is too "mean", but I appreciate where she is coming from. It's not easy being the oldest daughter of successful parents...there is a LOT of pressure to be the best, to make it, to even do better than they did. To have to work ten times as hard because you're not just a woman, you're a black woman trying to prove that you deserve what you've worked so much for. However, I did wonder if there was something in Annata's romantic past to make her so wary of opening up to anyone. I get that she was worried that in the end, Christophe would screw her over by waltzing in and taking what she'd worked so hard for (which he did). But I feel that a lady as sharp as she is would have realized that the company wasn't hers to have anyway. It was so obvious that no matter what she did, or how hard she worked, the father (all affection aside) was just amusing himself with her until Christophe made up his mind. I do wish that Christophe had been written with more of a backbone, though. All those years he traveled the world on his expense account doing much of nothing and feeling resentful when he could have told his father to go to the devil and struck out on his own doing whatever he wanted to do. Then he just up and decides he wants something that he put no effort into creating or maintaining and thinks he should have it just because of his last name, despite the fact that the woman he loves has given her blood, sweat, and tears to help build it...and had the nerve to feel like HE was the injured party when she dumped him! That was a HUGE betrayal...the only thing that could have balanced it out is a love of the magnitude that they had for each other. Their love is what kept me hooked on this novel...it was simply undeniable. No amount of hurt, or tears, or recriminations was going to keep them apart, no matter what either one of them said or thought...and in the bedroom, they were on FIRE! Christophe is at his best between the sheets...in bed he is all alpha...very sure of himself, what he wants, and what he is capable of. Hot, hot, hot!*****UPDATE*****I'm bumping my rating up from four stars to five. Why? Because over the past month I've reread this book at least five or six times and I know I'll reread it more...it's definitely become a high ranking favorite. I'm not tired of these characters or this story at all. It is not easy to capture me with a story but Ms. Parker has done it. Brava, Ms. Parker! I can't wait for Vivica's story.