Review: Didn't care for this...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 30, 2012
Unfortunately, I didn't care for this book very much. The writing was a bit subpar, the characters were shallow, and the story was superficial.I really tried to immerse myself into the story but it took me three days to read 129 pages because of the aforementioned factors.Heather Booth has been secretly in love with Julian Goff for two years. Unfortunately, it is unrequited love because: (1) Julian is Heather's boss and (2) he is a dog. He uses women and throws them away after having her buy them a piece of fare-the-well jewelry.So, the setup is actually one that I have read before...countless times. However, this story differs in that the story felt like a hodge podge of ideas instead of one cohesive story.On Friday evening, girls night out at a local bar, Heather ruminates over her feelings for Julian with her friends Connie, Ashley, and Amber *sounds like a cheerleading squad*. The three friends immediately jump in and reaffirm what Heather already knows: Julian is a dog...or as the book declares, "a horn dog". Deciding to put Julian out of her mind, Heather dances the night away with her girls. But, little does she know that she is being watched by "the man" himself. He doesn't like the fact that other men are lusting after Heather, even though he is there with another woman who he quickly discards later that evening.Heather arrives to work the following Monday and is instantly in Julian's cross hairs. He unleashes his ire on her for "inappropriate" activities at the bar over the weekend. Well, Heather, in her own fit of rage, responds in kind, by voicing her displeasure at Julian. One minute they are arguing and in another turn Julian has Heather bent over his desk and he is giving her "the business" right in the office.So, at this point, I click back a page on my Kindle because it really felt as if I had missed some critical change in the story...but no...it was fight and then sex. Oooooookay then...reading on.The sex sparks the beginning of their "relationship" where Heather willing agrees to be at Julian's beck and call until he decides he is done with her.Now, the feminist in me is tsking and shaking her head at poor stupid...but not naive...Heather.Heather is fully aware of what will happen to her at the end of the proposition -- jewelry and goodbye -- but she enters into the agreement eagerly.From this point, the story evolves with Julian and Heather having plentiful sex and with Heather dismissing her friends for the relationship. Her friends don't approve of Julian because he is a dog and they know that he will eventually hurt Heather but also because he is several years her senior -- his forty years to her twenty-five. But, the story between her friends is an odd one. In one instance they are condemning her for her relationship with him and in the next they are telling her that she is "a lucky woman" which didn't jibe at all. Heather and her band of cheerleaders...errrr... friends seemed very immature. The written dialogue made them seem as if they were in their teens rather than their mid-twenties.And I will end my review with this e[...] reflection. Julian and Heather inconsistently used condoms during their relations. And on one such occasion, Julian told Heather that, "I am going to sp@nk inside you. I want to feel your c@m around my c@ck".*Doe eyed blink*...*followed by a gag*... Dear lord! Please tell me that the author DID NOT just write that.Not sexy...crass, with a capital "C"!As the first book in the series, this book -- the writing, the characters, the dialogue, and the actual story -- did not inspire me to want to read on. Definitely NOT my cuppa.