Review: Blackmailed into the Billionaire's Bed
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 1, 2014
I discovered Jan Bowles in early January 2014 & immediately became a fan. Her stories are just fun and sexy with a pinch of BDSM thrown in. I devoured several books of hers and a short period of time and am still working my way down her backlist.Blackmailed into the Billionaire's Bed (BitBB) was not too bad of a read for me, though it's not a favorite of mine. The plot line was very similar to Jan's other novella, In Debt to the Dom. It follows pretty much the same storyline although they may not be exactly identical, but still very similar nonetheless. So the general story in a nutshell goes like this: the heroine comes work for super successful billionaire hero. She gets blackmailed into secretly stealing millions of dollars from the hero's company to save a loved one's life. To make the heroine pay for her crime, the hero makes a proposition where heroine will become his sex slave for a period of time and they eventually fall in love and the problem gets solved. The end.First of all, I love the cover for this story. It was what initially drew me to this book because I have to admit, Siren doesn't really have the best book covers out there. Just saying. Anyways, while I found In Debt to the Dom entertaining, Blackmailed into the Billionaire's Bed was quite the opposite. This story fell flat to me. Unfortunately, the characters didn't hold my interest; they lacked depth and the dialogue in the story just didn't feel very natural. Furthermore, the pacing of the story felt rather rushed as well.To add to the list, the sexual tension just wasn't there. I love good sexual tension in a story; that's one thing that makes reading romance so much fun. However, I didn't feel the sexual tension or sizzling chemistry that I've come to enjoy from Jan's characters and the reasoning is because I felt that this story was more based on telling rather than showing which tends to knock off points (or in this case, stars) for me.In the end, I really wanted to like BitBB, but it just wasn't a story for me. It didn't pull me in and my interest wandered off to other things while reading hence there were quite some skimming on my part, sad to say. So, will I continue to read Jan's other books? Of course! This story may be a miss for me, but I'm still eagerly looking forward to Jan's other books including her backlist titles and new releases.*I received a review copy from the author for an honest review.