Review: Intriguing...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 17, 2014
Man, I hate to love a cliffhanger.  I love cliffhangers because it means that I’m sucked in enough to the story and characters that when the story unexpectedly ends, it pisses me right off.  And I LOVE being that engrossed in a story.  I hate cliff hangers because who likes to wait to find out how a story ends?!?We meet Allie Nabokov mid-shift at a New York diner.  Fresh from college, trying to figure out which way is up after being laid off from her first job out of college.  Until a man walks into her diner and changes her life forever with an immediate connection they both feel and only she is willing to do much about.At least directly.He – whose name is actually Zac – takes out an ad that serendipity leads Allie straight to.  What was the ad for?  For one night with an escort who needed to look just like Allie.  When history intervenes and Allie’s brother is suddenly in a huge amount of financial trouble, Allie agrees to one night.The premise of this story sucked me right in from the very beginning.  I’m a huge fan of serendipity and this book has it in spades.  I will warn you though that you need to be willing to suspend your disbelief and just roll with this story.  Allie is about as nave as it gets and Zac is about as classically tall, dark and mysterious as it gets, but there is a delicious amount of tension between them that just whets my appetite for more.If there is one thing Ashley Simone does extremely well in this book, it’s write an extremely hot sex scene:“’I can’t let you walk away again,’ he said, his voice hoarse with lust.  ‘Because this is what I want.  I want to taste every part of you.  I want you moaning and writhing under me, I want you weak and helpless.  I want you to scream my name, over and over again.’”As much mystery as Zac is cloaked in, he firmly establishes himself as a prime alpha male in this sex scene – he’s firmly in control, thoroughly attentive and has a wonderfully dirty mouth.Even though there are moments when Allie’s naiveté gets a little irritating, overall the flow of this story is wonderful.  I’m completely intrigued by the characters and the overall developing storyline and I cannot wait to read the next installment.