Review: Embarrassing for everyone involved
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 10 20, 2013
1.  Woman just out of college meets incredibly hot and mysterious billionaire2.  Mysterious billionaire can't control his passion for woman, although she feels that she looks ordinary or worse-than-ordinary.3.  Billionaire comes to woman's rescue by giving her a job4.  Sex of a vaguely dominant sort is had5.  Material fantasies are fulfilled (amazing trips, great clothes, luxurious spa trips, incredible hotel rooms) and woman is told she is the most beautiful evar6.  OMG, billionaire has a secret!  Will love prevail?  Buy the next chapter to find out . . .This could be the plot of five or six books that I've read in the last couple of months.  There is money to be made in this theme, although I've noticed that many authors are stopping short of the more blatant BDSM trappings of Fifty Shades and instead going with a vague sort of dominance.  I won't fault this author trying her hand at it, but I do object to the terrible way in which she approached it.There are all sorts of total head-scratchers here.  We're supposed to believe that Xander is a famous billionaire but nobody would know his secret (which would have been well-publicized, right?).  We're supposed to believe that he would have to get a housekeeper/assistance by putting a message on a bulletin board and that he wouldn't use a placement service or do any sort of background check before hiring.  The whole thing with the clothes was super-confusing. After the personal stylist refuses to help Ashley (because that is totally something that would happen), Xander sends Ashley to his friend's store (thank God he has a friend to help out and thank God the author let us know that the friend is effeminate) and the friend has a whole rack of size sixteen clothing for her (even though he also says it is impossible to sell the stuff).  She buys the stuff, but later we're told he designed it just for her (How?  In five minutes?).  None of the timelines made sense.Everything about this story just felt so fake and contrived.  There are lots of girl-meets-billionaire stories out there, but this is one of the weakest.