Review: Perfect For Each Other
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 27, 2014
***Received from Entangled Publishing for an honest review***(This is a short story/novella. This review is not based on story length but story content as length has very little to do with how much I enjoy a book.)Every now and then, it's refreshing to read about a woman who will pull out all the stops to get a man to realize she's what he needs because he's what she wants.Lucie's crush on John motivates her to "kidnap" him for a weekend in hopes of convincing him that her crush is more than a crush. But John doesn't do longer than one night with a woman. For Lucie though, he'll take the whole weekend, no strings attached she's offering because he wants her that bad.This is definitely a "perfect weekend gone wrong" kind of story. The downturn in events isn't John or Lucie's fault at all as they're held captive in the house by two men, one a lackey, the other a greedy bastard. Motive: money and vengeance.I wasn't too keen on the comparisons between what he didn't have to what Lucie's family had, though I did like that he wasn't some self-made millionaire ex-military playboy. He was rugged, hot, and grounded. And while Lucie's family was wealthy, money didn't make her. She defined who she was. I loved that and wished John could have accepted that as easily as I did.But, then again, there wouldn't be a story if he did, lol.There is a lot packed into this short story: conflict, suspense, action, resolution, needs, wants, desires, lust, and love. The beginning didn't paint a very hopeful picture for John and Lucie, but the ending... That picture was real and absolute, a dream come true for them. Despite the odds, the whispers, the comparison, they found where they belonged: with each other.