Review: Intriguing and has promise, but the short length didn't do the story justice
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 26, 2014
Reviewed by Ashiafor TheRomanceReviews.comThe summary of NO ORDINARY MISTRESS drew me to read this book, and while the premise was intriguing and has promise, I felt the short length of the novella didn't do the story justice.Emma Masterson didn't want to work with fellow agent Remy Hawthorne, because the attraction between them was too intense, and she didn't know how she was going to keep her hands off of him. What happens when she was assigned to play his mistress?Right from the first page, we are dropped into the thick of the action, with Emma reliving a kiss from the night before with her partner and boss, Remy. And while this snags our attention and interest right off the bat, I also felt this is where the book's flaws are, ultimately. I think I would've liked to witness the couple's first kiss and Emma's firsthand reaction, rather than her later musings. In the same way, a lot of the scenes in the story were told rather than shown, maybe due to meeting some prescribed word count or deadline, and this takes away a lot from the reader's enjoyment of a well-written tale.As a result, the book has a rushed quality to it, and I was not able to immerse myself fully into the author's world or get invested enough in the characters to care much about them.Also, it's obvious that this is merely a part of a bigger tale, as Emma's objective to find the villain was never fulfilled, sidelined by the threat to her life.