Review: More like 2.5 stars
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 26, 2012
This was an okay read. There were some things that just didn't seem realistic to me though.Spoilers:1) Justine used to be a model and a friend asks her to participate in this auction for charity where the highest bidder will get to take her to dinner. She decides to alter her looks so she won't be recognized so she dyes her hair red and gets green contacts. That's all she does to look different. But for some strange reason, the next time Alex sees her in her natural state, he doesn't recognize her at all. This was after a whole night of them talking over dinner. I find it a little farfetched that he wouldn't at least recognize her voice the next day - even if her hair is now blond and her eyes are brown.2) Justine immediately falls in love with Alex after their first night in which she's in the role of "Jasmine" and to be honest, I didn't really see how she could fall for him so fast. He was a little bland and with the way he spoke, I honestly thought he was in his 40's, not his 20's. When she finds out that Alex is the CEO of the pharmaceutical company that made the drug that killed her mother, she's devastated and vows to never seem him again. And then the next day she sees him at a party and starts pining for him again. This was after 2 days of knowing him.3) They spend a few weeks in close contact with each other while Justine works as Alex's secretary for a business deal and he STILL doesn't know she's really "Jasmine" his auction girl. Also, after they do the deed the first time, he has to go to the hospital because his wife who's in a coma (yes, he's married!) has gotten worse. He rushes to her side and she ends up dying. He doesn't contact Justine for an ENTIRE MONTH after this because he has to cope with his angry feelings towards his wife and her subsequent death (they didn't have a good marriage). This is understandable but what I couldn't accept was that he didn't at least call Justine to let her know where his head was at so she didn't think he used her for sex.4) To make matters worse, she's the one who has to travel to see him and of course she's been pining for him this entire time while he just wallows around his estate, doing nothing. Does he apologize for not contacting her that whole time? Of course not. They immediately jump into bed and he confesses his undying love for her. Sorry not buying it. The hero and heroine's behavior and actions just didn't ring true to me.On a positive note, I did like reading about their travels around the world and Alex's charity work with his company to improve the well-being of impoverished people in Africa.