Review: Just okay
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 8, 2014
I received this book in exchange for an honest review.This book didn't really work for me. I started it and then got frustrated with it so I put it down. I picked it back up and remembered immediately why it frustrated me. I really didn't like the characters. This book is about Gabrielle and Ric. Gabby works at a little cafe when one day Ric walks into the store. He is rich and handsome and she is immediately drawn to him. The story starts off similar as others of its kind. They both have issues from their past and they both deal with these issues poorly. They have sex, he gives her money that is for her sick father, she then thinks she is pregnant so she seeks him out. It is at this point my head starts to hurt.Gabby can't make up her mind as to what she wants from him. She doesn't want to have feelings or a relationship but gets mad because their relationship isn't going anywhere. Then she gets mad again when he does things later in their time together that are "relationship" type behaviors. She says she doesn't care about his money but makes a number of contradictory statements about his wealth. She gets into a fight with her only friend over him and their conversation that reconciles this fight falls flat but they "work it out." Then there is Ric, who like many tortured rich guys has past issues, but there isn't really anything redeeming about him.The book contains a lot of sexual scenes, which personally I do not mind, but there was a lack of depth and character development that was missing. Gabby and Ric would talk for a few seconds and then before the conversation would get anywhere she was getting off. There were a few times that I actually had to go back because all of a sudden they were wearing different clothes or I couldn't remember where they were. For example there is a scene that Ric was in a robe and you could see his bare chest but he takes both his shirt and pants off to have sex. Then there was a scene in a car and I have been in the type of car they were in and have no idea how they could have pulled that off.All in all the book just did not work for me, the sex was pretty hot but the rest fell short.