Review: Intriguing take on a romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 9, 2013
Katherine Bianchi is a complete Type A personality.  She's has a strong persona and is a perfectionist, workaholic, and control freak but really it's somewhat of a faade to hid the fact that she's also imperceptibly broken and insecure.  On the weekends, she has a love of junk food and television.  She also loves to cuss so if that kind of language bothers you, you might want to skip this title.  I, on the other hand, love to use colorful language around my nearest and dearest.  For a majority of the book, Kate seems to be in control but it's fun to see it start to slip away the further in you read.  In face towards the end, she really starts to reveal some submissive tendencies.On the surface Dylan Berkeley seems like a straight forward alpha male character.  As a billionaire entitled playboy, he tries to control Kate from the minute he sets eyes on her, yet she keeps rejecting him.  Fortunately, he doesn't give up and continues to pursue her and really just break her down bit by bit.There is a lot of back and forth between Katherine and Dylan.  Usually in other books I kind of get fed up with too much but in this one it only adds fuel to the fire.  There are some clear influences by to other popular romances however this one differs with the overall relationship between the two main characters.  They have a largely tactless connection which seems to evolve throughout the story.  At times they are downright horrible to each other, while other instances they seem to be a bit of kindred spirits.There are some rough patches and seemingly disjointed phrases, however, I found this relatively easy to look past and still find the overall story enjoyable.Fair warning, this is the first of a two book series.  It does end with a surprising cliffhanger.  In my mind I thought I knew who and what would come between and BAM, I was completely wrong.  So now I have to wait for the second installment to see where their story goes.  Overall, I find this to be an intriguing and unique enough book of what can sometimes fall prey to clichés.Complimentary copy provided by author/publisher for an honest review