Review: Okay Erotic Romance Novella with a touch of Mystery
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 26, 2013
(Source: I received a digital copy of this book for free on a read-to-review basis. Thanks to author C. J. Scott, and Netgalley.)20-year-old Kate is home from college in the small village on Winter where she grew up, when 24-year-old Ben arrives in town.Ben is broke and has nowhere to stay, so Kate suggests he stay with her friend and her grandmother and in return work on their house for them. This also means that Kate will get the chance to get to know him better.Who is Ben though? What is he doing in Winter? And will he give Kate what she wants?This was an okay erotic romance story, but I felt that the sex happened quite quickly.Kate was an okay character. She seemed determined to do what she wanted to do, no matter what anyone else thought of her, and she was pretty determined that once she saw Ben she was going to have him.The storyline in this one was okay, but it didn't take long for Kate and Ben to end up in bed together, and it just seemed like it was about the sex rather than anything else as they barely knew each other. The relationship started out as lust on Kate's part, and there didn't really seem to be much emotion and feeling involved until later in the story.The erotic parts of the story were okay, and fairly short, and again I didn't feel like there was all that much emotion involved.The mystery of who Ben was and what he was doing in town was quite interesting, and I didn't guess what was really going on, or why Ben was so secretive. I thought that the ending was okay, but was a little surprised at the way things worked out as Kate was going to be leaving to go back to college quite soon after the events in this book, so the pair wouldn't be together when that happened anyway.Overall; an okay erotic romance, with a mystery storyline, but lacking something for me.6.5 out of 10.