Review: Modern Day, HOT & SEXY, Messed up Pretty Woman
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 14, 2014
This is a SEXY, MODERN, MESSED UP, Pretty Woman! Before I start the review…I just want to say how much I LOVE the cover!! Really pretty, classy and I can totally see this being Candace floating in her pool trying to forget her predicament.Nathan Dumont is a millionaire who is in search of a girl. He needs a wife to satisfy his demanding sexual needs, to parade in front of paparazzi, and to take to business events.He walks into a strip club and recruits a prostitute—Candace Tapers has it bad!! She was an average girl who couldn’t pay her bills after she got her degree and made the decision of being stripper who did things on the side for more money…She didn’t have sex but she did everything else. She loved it when Nathan walked in because it would get her on her feet for a few months. He would come in with the same MO…watch her dance, get serviced, and he would give her a couple grand.Well one night…it is different. Nathan walks in and takes her back to his place…and offers her a proposition. A wealthy lifestyle in exchange for a loveless marriage…I will not love you. I will have no use for you other than sex and photo ops. That is something you might want to consider when making your decision.”What is there to think about…Candace is—One paycheck away from homelessnessHer father, who she adores, is in a horrible hospital for an illness that no one can diagnose and she could really use the money. She could do worse…Nathan is wealthy, super hot, and the sex is amazing…I know. I am as screwed up as he is.But what happens…she begins to feel. He is so mean to her in the beginning…he has sex with her in front of his staff, he pimps her out, he dismisses her with a quickness after he is done with her…but she still feels…His looks are my weakness, his mind my undoing.In the middle of the book…there is a shift of power…Candace now knows why she was needed so badly and it gives her an edge. She takes advantage—Great. A long-term financial burden is easy. Two nights with me that’s the part that he finds difficult.She wants a relationship. She knows he will never love her but she doesn’t want to feel like an employee. Because of her leverage, he obliges and they become friends…with HOT benefits…which is totally dangerous for Candace…My brain made sure that there would be a parachute to catch me, to ensure that my weak heart wouldn’t doom the rest of me.Lust is a dangerous thing. It can make you believe things that are not real. It can seduce your mind and lead it blindfolded to the cliff hat will be its demise.There is a change in Nathan as well and I start to believe in a Happily Ever After…but then a wrench walks into the room one day and ruins EVERYTHING. I wish that was explored a little more…there wasn’t a lot of angst but it was still a good read!!