Review: Fated for each other..
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 9, 2014
Not all stories are for all people....I mean after all, we are all so individually unique with our own tastes, right?  First let me say I love this Author...I absolutely LOVED reading "Friend Zoned" and it's sequel.  The plot and writing in those stories were both original, fun and captivating.  The reader is invested and attached to the characters in very little time.  That didn't happen in this story.  At least, not for me.I hate giving negative or even mediocre reviews.  But this story just cannot compel me to write anything very positive  :(Lily Flynn is a 22 yr. old loner who enjoys her seclusion.  She still lives at home with her parents and older sister, and spends 95% of her time reading in her spacious library of a bedroom of her family's huge sixteen bedroom mansion.  She hasn't had real friends in a very long time and doesn't trust easily...so friendships are hard for her to establish (if she even cared to try).  But I thought her character refreshing and real.  She has many vulnerabilities...but she's also a very strong young woman.Then Lily is kidnapped right from her own home, and she soon discovers her kidnappers are her protectors.  There has been a murder attempt on her life and she's taken to a safe-house by "Nox"...one of a team of mercenaries.  She's held at a safe-house until the threat to her life is over.Nox and his team of mercenaries hire themselves out for various jobs.  Nox is tough, hardened and extremely aggressive.  He's stoic, remote and cold.  And little by little, without meaning to.. Lily begins to break down his wall's that he's erected....no real surprise there.This story is not a complex plot and is really nothing new or original in its concept.  It's very simply....simple.  There are no twists or turns or surprises.  It's completely predictable.  Basically the entire story takes place at the safe-house.  Two people who don't care for each other much (at first) are stuck together in one place, unable to leave.  The rest you can pretty much figure out for yourself.The story is told in first person from each main characters' POV....mostly from Lily.  (it would've been refreshing to hear more from Nox).  I adored Nox's Dominant Alpha bad boy Male self.  Absolutely delicious and I thought Lily to be the perfect "other half" for him.  Only someone as innocent and sweet as her could bring him to his knees.  The dialogue between all the characters is sweet with enough humor to keep the predictable plot somewhat interesting.Let it be known that I love this authors' previous books.  I just feel this story was not par for the course.  A far, far cry fromFriend-Zoned