Review: Held Me Captive From Beginning To End
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 15, 2012
"Relentless Pursuit" had its hooks into me from the start. This is not one book I could nor did I want to put down...it was that good.This is Billy Tripp's and Kristen Dante's story. These two main characters are flawed in their own way but that is what makes them real and the realism is exactly what makes them loveable.Kristen Dante runs a highly successful hotel that caters to the `rich and beautiful' of Palm Beach, Florida. Regardless of how successful she is, she has a self-esteem problem...she is a tall, `full-figured' woman in a world of skinny beautiful women that sees herself as a "fat amazon' that is unlovable because of that perception. She grew up with Jess, a younger half sister, who is the poster child for `beautiful people'. Jess's mother is an actress and both have either told Kristen she did not measure up or come close to the beautiful people they were. In fact they made her feel the exact opposite of what they perceived themselves to be and in doing so have made her feel that she was less of a woman because of her height and size. Then Billy Tripp enters into her world.Billy Tripp works for a private security firm and is part of a team sent to Dante's to guard an expensive necklace as a form of punishment. You see he has his own problems and that is his mouth and impulse control and has been diagnosed as borderline ADD. He's also working on his cursing...he promised his mom that he would stop cussing and his alternative words brings quite the comic relief to this story. On the night he is guarding the `punishment necklace' he meets Kristen and is so taken by her beauty that he is rendered speechless and decides that this is one woman worth pursuing. The more he pursues Kristen and gets shot down, which has never happened to him before, the more he wants her. On the night of guard duty the hotel has a couple of high-end cars stolen. Since he doesn't want to leave South Beach until he has won Kristen's affections, he decides to offer his services in solving the car theft problem in hopes that this will prove himself to the beautiful Kristen Dante.Billy and Kristen's story also happens to have a few colorful characters thrown. Jess-the younger self-centered, party girl, half sister of Kristen's, Vic-Billy's annoyed boss who is trying to rein him in, Peter-Billy's friend and partner who beat the heck out of him a few months previously and finally, Izzy-Peter's smoking hot girlfriend. All of these characters come together to create one very exciting, don't want to put down, smoking book. Adrienne Giordano has created such highly believable, lovable people that when the last page is turned you will find yourself really caring about these people and be left wanting more.This is the first book by Ms. Giordano that I have read but it will not be my last. If you like personable characters that are relatable, if you like your books suspenseful, if you love romance than this is the book for you. Once you read this one you will run back to Amazon and get every book in this great series. 5-starts without a doubt.Anita (The Kindle Book Review)