Review: Interesting premise with no follow through
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 22, 2014
When the story begins, Abbey is pretending to be a masseuse giving out free massages as a ruse to catch a slimeball who cheats on his wife on film.  She’s doing this to help out her friend Lucy, since she just caught her boyfriend/boss cheating on her and quits, leaving her with no money or job.  Nick Delaware, the billionaire of this story, is actually pretending to be his slimeball VP of Marketing and doesn’t know what to think of this free massage.  One thing leads to another, and the lies keep coming….The Good and the BadWith a setting like Melbourne and a mistaken identity setup like this, I was prepared to like this book.  Abby and Nick have chemistry from the get-go and their first love scene was pretty hot. As the story went on though, the lies just piled on and I couldn’t buy into their instant love for each other.  There was so much sex instead of emotional/character development, that I started to skim some of the later sex scenes, hoping for more emotional content.At the end of the story, I still felt like their only connection was a sexual compatibility, not any real emotional connection, since they didn’t know each other.  Other than one slightly stilted dinner conversation, every time they saw each other, they had sex. Every time.Then the lying - all it did was manufacture angst and I couldn't believe either one would be indignant about the lying since they both lied to each other throughout the book about everything. There was very little genuine conversation. Lots of sex and lies, but no truth between them.The Bottom LineA promising premise with no follow through.  I really wanted to like it, but there wasn’t enough emotional development to keep me invested in the HEA for these two.