Review: Romance, Mystery, Drama
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 17, 2013
Annihilate Me is a five-part series, and each book does not stand alone, although vols 4 & 5 are optional. However, each book is long enough that I didn't feel I had been ripped off. This author manages to make the hero, Alex, so hot, so vulnerable, and so sweet that she had me hooked almost immediately.  Based on a familiar theme of billionaire hires poor girl to pose as his girlfriend, this author somehow breathes new life into that theme.There's no sex in book one of the series, but this writer is a past master at building sexual tension and ending books with cliffhangers.  In book 2 when the sex finally does occur, to me, it was a little lacking. There were parts that would have benefited from more detail and one part that made no sense to me. But still, there is enough to make anyone yearn for a lover like Alex.Although at first, I liked Jennifer, I found her inability to ever leave her father out of her thought processes tedious after a while. I also had trouble with her inability to decide whether she was in love or to even be able to say she was Alex's girlfriend. I thought that surely when it became clear that Alex was in danger, it would put things into perspective for her.  To the contrary, she behaved in a totally selfish manner. Throughout the entire series, her actions are short-sighted and strong willed, frequently putting both Alex's life and her own in danger.The ending does not wrap everything up into a neat package, leaving room for an additional book in the series. There is also a series about Jennifer's roommate, Lisa, and one of Alex's bodyguards, Tank.All in all, I found the book and the series frustrating, interesting, and irresistible. But isn't that the way life is? For that reason, this is the first book that does not stand on its own I have ever recommended. I enjoyed it and was sorry to see it end. If the writer writes more about Alex and Jennifer, I will no doubt buy in.