Review: Gives me an ulcer
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 15, 2014
This is a great storyline.  A hero to die for.  The heroine is a smart, beautiful, A type personality, successful real estate agent.  it has all the making for a  great story and it is a good book.  However, I want to strangle the heroine.  She inherits a 1/3 finished B&B; that has a $250,000 mortgage on it and a mob guy holds the loan.  If she doesn't finish the building and have it running in about 9 months, he gets to foreclose and she loses everything. Long story short she hires the hero, a master carpenter, to finish the building.  Now she does not tell him about the deadline.  STUPID on her part.  But she pushes this slow working guy to get him up to her speed.  It does not work.  Clash of wills from the beginning.Being an A type personality myself, I can understand how she works.  I had a good friend that works the way he does.  DROVE me up the wall on a daily basis.  But, she hires him knowing how he works and then she fumes through most of the book because of his work ethic.  Ok, she got what she paid for, no sympathy there.  Naturally, they fall for each other but keep their distance.  It would never work.  Two exact opposites.  Then she finds out some very personal, tragic news from his past.  A friend of his tells her, HE DOES NOT.  So what does she do?  She tells the first jerk that comes along the information.  Now, WHY WOULD SHE do that?  Now, smart as our gal is, it never occurs to her that the mob guy, who will do anything, would stoop to keeping her from making the deadline.  Never even crosses her mind.  STUPID.  Of course, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that her "new best friend" is about to sell her up the river.I quit reading.  It is a good story and I know it will end with HEA.  I just could not deal with any more of her being stupid.  I would imagine that when it is all over he will forgive her everything but I can't stand to spend anymore time with her.  I would like to have a business question answered.  If you owe $250,000 on a business.  Spend close to that to get it up to speed and then you start to rent rooms, I think 5 bedrooms is what it had, how long before you start to make a profit?  B&B; just doesn't seem like the way to make a living.  Especially when you cannot guarantee that every room will be filled every day so income is not guaranteed.The father that loved her so much left her with this debt then gives his insurance policy to the 2nd wife that could have cared less if he was living or dead.  I have to wonder why he didn't leave it to her to get his dream finished.  I can see why he only left the other two siblings a pittance, but he left her the same amount and she was the special one.  Doesn't add up.  I realize that if she can get the property finished and up and running then she gets a good deal but she still owes the loan shark $250,000.  That is a lot of room renting!!!  Maybe I just don't understand business.I really liked this hero and I liked the storyline.  I just got pissed off with the heroine.  He was giving up everything for her dream and she didn't even appreciate it.