Review: The potential was there.  Just meh for me.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 3, 2013
Forbidden Desires had a lot of potential to be a great book, but the story fell a little flat for me.Bella is a librarian who likes to hang out at the local retirement facility to play poker with a few sharp-tonged blue-haired bitties. During one of her poker sessions the facility has a safety drill, and in walks tall, dark, handsome and Italian fireman, Marcus.The pair each have their own issues to deal with. Bella is a larger woman who isn't comfortable in her own skin, while Marcus just got out of a bad relationship and with his life on the line everyday with his job, he doesn't need any distractions.Unfortunately, Marcus can't get Bella out of his mind and she ends up being a huge distraction anyways.The pair didn't have as much chemistry on paper as I would have liked. Marcus likes to be a little bit submissive, but being a macho Italian man, that doesn't fit with the type of man he thinks he needs to be. Bella on the other hand likes to be in control, and when Marcus tries to take that control from her, she doesn't like it one bit. Their back and forth, runaway, chase shenanigans just didn't work for me, and I ultimately got bored with the pair of them.A story that had a lot of potential, but without the chemistry and all the uncertainty between the both of them made me want to pull my hair out.