Review: Great Read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2014
Lately I've been reading a CEO box set that I purchased and have had bad luck with the first two books.  This being the third book, I started this read with fairly low expectations.  This book taught me to not judge a book by the rest of it's box set!  Quickly into the book, I read a single point of dialogue that made me second guess my expectations."Please, the great Adam Lawrence does not apologize to anyone.  You'd have better luck parting the Red Sea using your lipstick."I just cracked up laughing.  There's many small gems of great humour spaced out in this book.  It was enough to make me laugh without making me feel like the book was overly cheesy from excess humour.  The humour, romance and conflict were delicately balanced to create a fantastic story between two stubborn main characters.The main aspect of this story that made it stand apart from many of the other CEO style romances that I've read is that the main heroine, Cassie, is a complete firecracker.  Every time the hero (Adam) gave her a hard time, she threw it right back at him in spades.  She is a strong and worthy adversary to Adam's sense of control in his life.Adam is a bitter man, scorned from his father.  Like many CEOs (at least in books), he doesn't believe in love.  Cassie melts his heart by challenging him to be a better man without outright trying to change him.  The change in him is gradual as his heart melts.The one part that I felt I was going to have problems with was handled so completely well by the author that instead I want to mention it as a fantastic Kudos to the author's writing.  Shortly after her surgery for endometriosis, Cassie goes with Adam to his beach home to scope it out for an event he was planning that Cassie would be catering and hosting with him.  This is where the first sexual encounter happens.  At first I found this really distressing.  She had just had surgery days before, there's not any medical way that anyone would be healed enough for intercourse, but the author did her research!  During their sensual moment, Cassie was overwhelmed with pain, effectively ending their tryst.This was a great read and it really gave me a renewed hope for the rest of the CEO box set that it's in.  It's a sweet and quick romance that would be a joy for any contemporary romance reader to devour.