Review: Yowsa
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 20, 2013
I will be the first to admit that I have willingly dumbed myself down when it came to purchasing women's fiction.  If I wasn't falling head first into "The Trilogy Trap" (as I like to call it) I was purchasing all formula written, predictable books.  Yeah, not so much with Selling Scarlett, this book required me to sit up and pay attention, I couldn't skim over anything (not that I was even tempted to).  The storyline had so many interesting sub characters, and complex plot twists and turns, that Scarlett and Hunter had no choice but to shine and Ella James made sure they did.  While reading I found myself trying to absorb every nuance and tidbit of information that I could knowing everything in the text was there for a reason.  Our Hero Hunter was seriously flawed and achingly wonderful and Libby (while only 23) was not a child/woman vulnerable heroine but a strong female who didn't wait to be rescued but charted her own course.  She loved Hunter, she never waivered in her beliefs and trust in, not only Hunter, but the other people she loved in her life Cross and Suri.  Almost everyone in this book deserves a book of their own and I am relieved that I don't have to wait for Cross's story as it came out today.  How Ms James can take a character that was in a coma for 85% of this book and make him interesting enough to have his own story told is amazing.  I am not a real fan of thrillers but this book grabbed me at page 42 and I held on for the next 390 pages.  The dialog, pacing and and an interesting supporting cast made the time I spent reading this book fly by.  I loved, loved, loved this book.