Review: Surprisingly Entertaining
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2014
The story of Erik and Lydia was great entertainment.  There was a great mix of romance, passion, drama, and humor which made this 99 cent novel much more than expected.Lydia just wants to run her small lotion business and pretty much hope the rest of the world leaves her alone.Erik comes along and pretty much destroys any chance of that happening and in the process turns her whole world upside down and inserts chaos in its place.While I did really enjoy the story I have to say that Erik was so arrogant, overbearing and to be honest not really that much of a good thing for Lydia for a good portion of the novel that it was really hard to warm up to him.  the author had to work hard to make him likeable IMHO.If chaos does not set well in your entertainment this is not your book because it is full of it and each time you think things have calmed down some new disaster occurs, all of which I found very entertaining for the most part (with a couple of exceptions)As to be expected, there some actual bad guys (more than you think) in addition to Erik who is not bad but extremely clueless with women it seems anyplace outside the bedroom.I gave it 4 Stars rather than 5 due to my initial dislike of Erik (which continued longer than it should have), Lydia seeming lack of any willpower in too many scenes and sexual innuendos overdone to the point of irritation on my part.I still would highly recommend this book because at the end of the day I enjoyed it a LOT and the near perfect use of humor in most situations.  I would have liked her to have just a bit more spine, I never did feel like she got even for his first screw-up but I am a revenge junkie so you can ignore that :)Bottom Line:  It was good, I enjoyed reading it and if she writes anymore with the house full of insanity that is Erik's family I will be reading them.  Throw in a few good laughs and you have a better book than most of the ones I read.