Review: Not good
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 1, 2014
So this series was a pretty big let down for a variety of reasons, from character development to editing it needs a complete overhaul!  I write this having read all three books (after the apparent rewrite of the infamous "P" word) and find they all lacked the same qualities that I find necessary in a GOOD book.  I felt this was amateur hour.  For example:1. Neither character is all that inspiring.  You want to feel something for them, you can almost start to, but they both seem so shallow and one dimensional.  Hero and heroine can have flaws and still be loved...think Christian Grey...these two read like 18 year old dunces.1a.  Harrison is supposed to be a mega wealthy mogul, but his security team isn't vetted and his lead guy "Albert" spends most of his presence watching reality tv and listening to sports on his ear buds?  That character alone could have added a deeper level of drama and suspense.  I appreciate the writers trying to bring out a more tender part of Harrison by book two, but it was too little too late...kisses on foreheads and "I love yous" mouthed across a room (repeatedly) do not a romantic make!  Also, what was with the whole, "that's business" nonsense.  If the writers had allowed Harrison to open up about his work stresses and challenges, we (and Dani) would have more incite into his life and him.  We would care for him more!  And why have him doubt the level of threat Marion posed throughout most of the three books?  Really!!!?  It seemed so obvious but the characters were written to be obtuse.1b.  Danielle...ugh this character!!! What a simpering, annoying cry baby that married towers and started sounding like a simpering annoying SNOBBY cry baby!  She actually used the words "little chit" in describing a "housekeeper" who had eyes for her hubby.  She came off so whiny.  Yes she was in a terrible position, but all the crying, sobbing, whining and just plain stupidity were so unnecessary!!!  Do something smart about it all for heavens sake!!!  Stop throwing yourself on your bed and "sobbing your eyes out!"  For instance, she's already been attacked while running, but she decided to go for another run the day after she returns married...fully aware that the stalker is out for blood. But does she choose a treadmill?  Nope!  She chooses a secluded part of the park on an isolated trail away from other runners and tells her security guard to stay in the car...oh ok says the dumb reality tv addict "security guard!"  Really???  How dumb do you have to be???  Also if she ignored the unknown caller calls and referred to them as telemarketers one more time I was going to scream!!  At Some point, not only are the writers insulting the intelligence of their characters, but they've started to treat the readers as imbeciles too!2.  The sex scenes.  Ugh!!  In book one I felt like there was a couple lines of dialogue, then several (5-6) pages of raunchy sex then a couple lines of dialogue and repeat!  And it just kept going like that.  The day to day relationship building moments took a major back seat and would be summarized in a couple lines the next day before another romp in a new "location" was dissected in the most graphic of details. Now I like erotica but this garbage read like a porno script.  It would have been nice to read them converse and get to know one another and by converse I don't mean sitting at a restaurant, Harrison cutting Danielle off when she asks about his work, saying "that's business" (is that supposed to be hot??) and proceeding to "talk" about how much they want to do each other instead of being at dinner!!  Yes those tidbits and moments can be hot and steamy, but not when that's how it is every single time they go anywhere!!!  We get it!!!  You're both horny!  By books 2 & 3, there was a little more character development, excursions and adventures, but not much more in a meaningful way. They did fade away from a few sex scenes thankfully, so we got a break there but I still started to skim through most of the remaining sex scenes.  There was absolutely NO, I mean ZERO!!!! Making love in any of these books. Not even after being injured and recovering for 6 weeks did we get a making love scene.  Nope. Just pure raunch and "f&)$&ing;" and "ramming" and "riding" and a plethora of other action verbs that left absolutely nothing to the imagination!!3.  Now not to be annoying, but the number of typos and grammar mistakes in these books was ridiculous.  I just have to mention it!  Really?!?!  Get a better editor. And did it really take a "writing team" to come up with this story?  Seriously?  Cut half the sex scenes.  Switch a few to making love scenes.  Spend some time writing dialogue and back story for your main characters...then actually DEVELOP them and you got yourself a 350 page stand alone SINGLE book!  Not a "trilogy!"I could go on, but I think you get my point here.  A lot wrong and not a heck of a lot right with these books.