Review: Accounting for Lust
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 5, 2012
Cassandra Adams has one more night before her life will change; her father is dead and she'll be taking over his flagging company. She decides to seek out a night of danger and sex, anonymous and lusty. She gets all that and more, then slips out in the morning without knowing his name. Ten months later she's getting death threats as she works to uncover who has stolen millions of dollars from her father's company. When her most trusted employee threatens to quit unless she gets protection, she relents and is shocked when she finds her one night stand is her new bodyguard. Can Jake keep Cassie safe or will their lust and diverted attention get Cassie killed?This needs a lot of work; it needs editing, it needs more descriptive writing, it needs atmosphere, and it really needs more character as a whole. The lead characters, Jake and Cassie, have some common sense issues. For example: Cassie sees a picture of herself taken of her in her office and doesn't even question from where was it taken? Jake, a professional, also doesn't until much later. Weird.The romance progression and the first thought of the "L" word felt very premature. Other than a lot of sex, there really wasn't any depth in this relationship. Both Jake and Cassie read as wooden characters who aren't very emotional, unless you consider horniness to be an emotion. The mystery wasn't very mysterious since we're kind of aware of who the bad guy is right off the bat and just have to wait for the characters to figure it out. The end reveal was anti-climatic.The biggest issue for me is that it doesn't feel like a finished book, as it still has a drafty and unpolished feel to it. I don't feel it was terrible enough to warrant less than three stars, but it really was just okay for me.Overall, I feel this could be better, improved, and taken above and beyond what I just finished reading.