Review: Kade & Samantha/Lainey
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2014
I really loved three-quarters of the book, the entire first half I'll say, trying to figure out what is going through the dark minds of Lainey & Kade, imagining what kind of violence shaped their pasts, watching them skirt around each other in hot anger & lust. Is it wrong to admit that I didn't like how the story ended, that when they got down & dirty and all of their secrets from the past came into the light I didn't like the story as much? Just being honest, that is exactly what happened. Lainey's real name is Samantha and she is running away from a violent man - even in the end we don't know exactly the extent of what Samantha went through but she arrived in the beginning of the story with a beaten body in a new town with a new name. Kade is a writer of horror novels but his violent past is unexpected & left him as a changed boy, now a recluse, a man who still can't find the words to talk about what he witnessed & felt as a teenager, until he meets Lainey in his brother's strip club. Kade is a total self-centered jerk, and Lainey even calls him out on how he has to let go of his inner anger & look at the world around him. Lainey/Samantha is hiding out as a waitress & Kade belittles her every chance he can get. I love that Samantha doesn't admit what her true profession is, and man would I love to see her rub his nose in the fact that she isn't just a waitress, but hey, what the heck is wrong with being a waitress?? Nothing! Anyway, Kade & Samantha have the hottest sexual tension going & once they get down to business you know Kade is going to be an alpha male in the bedroom. I wanted to see more of his personality as it was softening, as he was changing due to his love for Samantha as he tried to stop her from running away again. I guess I'll have to read the next book but I did appreciate the epilogue - it showed how Kade was serious about healing his past & his letters to Samantha were amazing. Just a little too much violence & darkness and it wasn't balanced enough with emotions of love.