Review: I didn’t think she deserved what she got.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 12, 2014
Celeste is dumped by her boyfriend who also kicks her out of their apartment. She decides to go a little wild for a night out in Vegas and ends up in a nightmare situation. I love a good kidnapping-turned love story so this book hit all the check marks I was looking for. What I didn’t expect was to be so unsure of the hero’s intentions for the majority of the book. When you are close to 80% into a book before you are solidified in your main character’s intentions it looses a bit of luster for me. The book description was hot, and I was really excited with the story until about half way through when I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to be cheering for them to get together or for her to run away.Celeste was a frustrating character. You are reading from her perspective for the majority of the book and you are in her head a lot. I think the reason I was so frustrated with her is because she had a lot of “secrets,” but none of them seemed important. They were made to be big reveals, but lacked the plot change necessary to warrant such a big deal. When she is being held captive I think explaining her situation before she was kidnapped might have gone a long way to get her freed. She wasn’t some Vegas prostitute with nobody who loved her, she was just recently dumped and looking for a night out on the town. It felt like she was kidnapped, punished, and overall treated like s*** because she wanted to cut loose. I didn’t think she deserved what she got.I think I actually liked Leonide more than Celeste. While you don’t know what his intentions are for her for a majority of the book, at least what you do get (for the most part) is consistency. He rocks back and forth between being cruel and being kind, but you kind of expect that in a story where the kidnapper falls in love with his prey. I wish more of his side would have been revealed sooner instead of getting all of him in the last 20%. It made it hard to completely connect to him and it confused my emotional relationship with him.The sex was pretty sparse. While there are many sexual encounters their relationship was so undefined that I wasn’t sure if what they were doing should be turning me on or making me angry. I wasn’t ever 100% sure if they both were doing this because they cared about each other or out of obligation until the end of the book. When we got to the sex it was hot, but you don’t get much before it’s over.I would have loved this story so much more if the characters intentions were revealed sooner. If Leonide was meant to fall in love with Celeste I wanted it sooner than the end. If he was struggling with his feelings I wish that would have been better explained. As it stands, I didn’t really know how to feel about the two of them besides frustrated. So many times I was angry with the miscommunications that led nowhere. This was a great idea and I loved Leonide’s history… just wish I could have known before the end and appreciated him more.