Review: Quick,fun read but lost me the second half of the book
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 8, 2014
Tempo by Kelley MaestasGenre: Contemporary RomanceAge Group: New AdultRelease Date: January 12,2014Print Length: 280 pagesFormat: eARCVia tour hostOverall Rating: 3.5 StarsKarlie is an up and coming designer for the top-notch company Ann Sloan designs. One morning she gets called into her boss’s office and is presented with an Opportunity to go to Vegas for a very high profile and lucrative job assignment. Her boss also informs her that there are two catches, one she will have to compete for the account against two other very well known design companies. And the other is that she will be required to stay in Vegas for three months while she completes the assignment if she is chosen. Karlie is determined to land the contract and is more then prepared for the challenge, what she isn’t prepared for is Vincent Michael Scarpetti.Vincent Micheal Scarpetti or Micheal as he is known is trying to step out of the shadows of his fathers tainted past. He is determined to make a name for himself and has worked very hard to build Tempo a new luxury hotel and casino. He refuses to let his fathers bad choices determine his future. Michael is a very serious man and tends to be all business. He doesn’t date and fills his needs from casual flings. But from the moment he meets Karlie he starts to wonder if he might end up changing his no dating rule."My life’s goal is to right the wrongs of my father. I want to redeem the Scarpetti name so that someday my children will be able to walk with their heads held high "There was an immediate attraction between Michael and Karlie and you could just feel like the sexual tension rolling off of them. It was freaking hot. I really loved the pace the Author set as far as how their relationship developed and the way they danced the line between a professional relationship and a physical one really had me intrigued. I found myself silently willing them to cross that line. I felt like I was a sex cheerleader. There were a couple times they came so close that I just wanted to reach in the book and give them a little push to help out and get them where they needed to go or more over where I really wanted them to go. Because I knew there were going to be some hot sex scenes in this book and the Author did not disappoint at all in that area."The deeper I take him into my mouth, the closer he gets to his release. I am in control. I get to decide. This is the most erotic experience I have had"I liked Karlie’s character in this book but I can’t say I loved her because there were definitely some issues I had with her. I admire that she worked her ass off to get where she is and she is very talented at what she does. And I really loved how the author gave her character an inner smart girl that she was always going to for advise. Some of the conversations she had with her “inner self” had me laughing out loud. She was quirky funny at times and other times she was a huge over thinker. What I didn’t like was the crying at random times, sometimes it just really didn’t fit and threw me totally off. At those points she became kind of annoying to me.Well I can say I loved Michael, he was hot and charming. He carries himself so confidently and I found that sexy as all hell. He was all businessman with a side dish of alpha male. Nice combo. I also like how he was so focused on his work and making sure nothing and no one would destroy his dream of opening Tempo and making it a huge success. You could really feel how much he wanted it and I really admired his drive and determination.As the book continues Michael and Karlie’s relationship heats up. But as the grand opening of Tempo draws near Karlie is left wondering what will happen once her three months is up and the job is over? Will Michael hold onto his no dating rule or will Karlie be the one to make him break it?"As our lips part I gaze into his eyes. I wonder what he sees in mine? Do they give me away? I am falling hard for this man"This book was a quick, fun read and while I did enjoy reading it, I really liked it a lot better during the first half. It just got a little boring for me during the second half and kind of lost me a bit at times. I think the problem for me was that while I really love when an Author goes into detail in a book sometimes it can be so overdone and this was the case in parts with this book. Yes I want to know details to bring me more into the story but I don’t need to have every single one. I don’t want or need an in depth description of the color of the sheets or the matching window treatments. I felt like every time we walked into a room we were given details of everything from the ceiling to the floor and in between. I can see how the Author probably did this because of the fact that Karlie was a designer but it got to be too much. But overall it was a good read and I really did see a lot of potential from this Author. I would read her books again.Reviewed by Stephanie the Book Hooker