Review: S-L-O-W-L-Y seduced by Cole...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 18, 2013
Even though Cole/Rachel are a whim-wham week from love to (jaw dropping) marriage super quickie thing, the story's actually a long s-l-o-w seduction. I think the excitement for me was waiting to see just exactly what Cole Madison was all about. We got a peak at the attraction between these two earlier in the series when they spy each other at the club "Whipped".  I think my mind built up this relationship into something much more than it was. I was thinking something a bit more on the kink side and it was actually just mildly different. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. It would have been awful to have Cole turn out to be a "Fifty" like character. We've certainly been inundated with enough of those rip-offs recently.HOT! Cole is definitely a guy that's business on the outside and a party undressed. I liked that bit of insider knowledge that only we the readers and Rachel knew about. I did like both characters very much and maybe it was the mood I was in while reading but that was the longest damn bk I've read in a while. S-L-O-W seduction is an understatement. I don't have Cole's patience and I wanted to shout GET WITH IT ALREADY AND SCREW YOUR BRAINS OUT!!!  So...as you can see I wasn't quite as thrilled with this bk as I'd hoped.  I know everyone else really liked it or loved it and I highly enjoyed reading yawls reviews but I was just kinda okay with it. I just wanted something more. I felt like we only got the surface here and there could have been so much more to Cole/Rachel with more depth into their relationship. Maybe I'm just not good with quickie love.Then there's my beloved Mason. Sorry Mase but you were such a deluxe jerk! His alpha, bossy, possessive hissy-fit attitude towards both Rachel and Cole was a turnoff.  Mason, Mason, I'm soooo disappointed in you. Yea, yea he was playing big bro, but I thought he came off as more arse than caring especially when everyone had been so worried about what's been going on with Rachel. Way to go Mase, you sure screwed that one up. Thankfully Mason yanked himself up (or maybe Lena helped with that), sucked it up and turned on his nice guy with Cole.A plus - I enjoyed Rachel's recollecting past sweet memories of her dad, especially him dancing her around the kitchen singing "My Girl". An endearing awwww moment. Cute Epilogue too. I was hoping we'd get more of Logan, Cole's half brother, and yeppers we will. Logan's bk "Try" out this fall. Looking forward to that one.