Review: SIZZLING!!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2014
4.5 StarsHere that sizzling sound? I’m pretty sure that’s my panties burning! Holy hell can author Jackie Ashenden pack a whole lot of hot, raunchy, steamy sex in a small package but she also manages to give us a good look at the characters and their motivation. The Billon Dollar Bad Boy is the second book in her Billionaire’s Club series and it’s every bit as good as the first.Following his father’s death Donovan (Van) Morrow has returned to the family corporation at the request of his brother who inherited the whole thing. Van’s a little bit bitter about that because of what he did at his father’s request for many years only to realize it would never make a difference to the father who thought of him as less. After opening and running a successful PR firm, he’s back and the first thing his brother has asked him to do is get rid of some land that Van has no intentions of letting go. But first he has to sit through buyer proposals and the latest one is giving him fits.Victoria de Winter wants nothing more than to finally have her adopted father’s approval and sealing the deal on the historic docklands is what she needs to do. However she finds herself going head to head with a man who likes to play games and she’s decided he’s not going to win.Damn it was fun watching these two try to one-up the other and the fact that they used sexy games to do it made it even more fun. I love how unbalanced they both felt in the presence of each other which only added to the thrill of it all. Most of all I had to admire Victoria for not allowing Van to get the best of her; she kept him on his toes a good portion of the time and that was fun to watch.Both these characters have baggage and they use it to throw up all kinds of road blocks and while it works for awhile, the reader can begin to see them crumble with each encounter. That’s not to say they fell easily, but they both shared more with each other than they’d every shared with anyone in the lives. I thoroughly enjoyed this usual love story and these very interesting characters.Review copy provided for an honest review.