Review: A Writer to Watch
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 7, 2013
After reading a book or short story that thrills me I like to go back to the writer's author page on Amazon and find out who has stitched these words so cunningly together. Thus it was that I learn that Emma Rider as a child "was rarely seen without a book in her hand." It shows. The first secret of good writing is reading - reading and more reading. Don't tennis players play for 10,000 hours before they get really good?Here we meet lovelorn Victoria Carson who has lusted after the suitably named Dominic, her boss, for five years and now finds herself under his nose, almost literally, as his personal assistant. I say "lusted", but that's not strictly true. Victoria's fantasies are strictly of the boy meets girl variety, tender kisses, short engagements and they all live happily ever after (probably in Connecticut).Dominic Nox, however, has rather more refined appetites. As he stealthily draws Victoria to the dark side - or should that be the bright side? - of the bed sheets, he unexpectedly misses his sweet little innocent secretary - a sudden twist that kept me up way past my bedtime and revealed, with its unexpected revelation, Ms Rider as a writer to watch."Tied to the Boss" is the first part of Emma Rider's "Tied Series" and, having become enmeshed in the first, I feel inclined to follow the thread like Ariadne in the Labyrinth at Knossos to "Set to Be Tied" and the conclusion, "Wickedly Tied"; if indeed it is the conclusion - like `I Love Lucy', some shows run for decades.