Review: middle of the road romance
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 13, 2013
Franco's Fortune. Redemption Book 2. Cara Marsi.ARC supplied by Netgalley.I'm a sucker for the rags to riches, seeing the person behind the image type of romance so this appealed. Anyway Franco - rich playboy and object of security expert Jo's crush for past five years - is getting threatened by someone unknown,  and his family and friends fear his life is in danger. Jo works for his friend Logan and he sends her to play Franco's girlfriend as an undercover bodyguard.Franco is more than he seems on the surface, and as Jo gets to know him better she's even more keen on him, and surprised to find that though she's far from his usual type Franco clearly has feelings for her too. He's enjoying actually being able to talk and have fun with someone who's not just a pretty face. That part was fine for me, but given that when we find out the sums of money involved is only 500,000 dollars, I wonder just how that compares with the amount spent on her makeover, and all the things that have gone into his protection. The criminals too seem to be spending a huge amount given its such a small sum to be divided among them. Maybe its not in contemporary time, but back a few years when half million dollars was a lot, and the money spent would equate to just a small part of it...I don't know but it's a point that seem to keep on coming over to me.There was danger and adventure in this novel but it seemed quite muted, and the romance between Franco and Jo was really quite low key. I was hoping for more from jealous ex girlfriends - we got a bit, but it was very tame. I need highs and deep lows in my romance and breath stealing dangers in my thrillers, but this was very middle range on all those points, and though it was a story I enjoyed its not one I'd read again, and if it wasn't a review book I'd probably not have finished it. Priced at 1.99 for 161 pages its around average in the genre. If you want something easy to read this fits, if you want - as I do - lots of emotional romance and gut churning danger this book won't do it.Stars: three - it was OK but not more for me. As ever though we all like different things so take that into account.