Review: Over Angsty
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 14, 2012
**Spoiler Alert**I enjoy the HQ romance type books with the rich, older Greek alphas who battle it out with the young, innocent (but feisty!) women who eventually succumb to their particular brand of charm and have a HEA. I suppose that was what I was more or less expecting with this book when I picked it up. I honestly wanted to like this novel and finish it, but frankly, it just got too melodramatic and angsty for me. Our Heroine is a fraternal twin who lost her mother quite young, she's brought up by her father alongside her twin brother, Chris, and they seem to live a fairly carefree and somewhat privileged life. Their father gifts them each with their own expensive new car on their 18th, off they go to a beach birthday party, sister Kate gets tipsy, bro drives her home from the party leaving Kate's new wheels at the beach. On their return home, they both deliberately evade letting dad know about Kate being too buzzed to drive home and are hoping that they can pick up the car in the morning with none the wiser and no loss of driving privileges. Except someone stole Kate's car and killed a child in a hit and run and then parked it in Kate's garage with the keys in it. Yikes. Kate goes to the Greek family of the young boy who was killed to offer her condolences and things get seriously unbelievable after that. Convinced that Kate killed the young boy, she is drugged and kidnapped to a remote location and told she will have to replace the family member she killed by becoming impregnated by the rich Greek dude, Alex. Long story short, she has the baby and escapes. But this wouldn't be a romance, though, if Alex didn't find Kate after 8 years and try to get her to forgive him/see reason. Alex has tracked her down, Kate's work receptionist has given out her home address, her boss has given a complete stranger (that he saw Kate was extremely hostile to) the key to Kate's home (!!) and on it went. Unfortunately, by the time I got to the part where perhaps the two of them could work it out, I was just exhausted by all the angst, drama and miscommunication and suspension of disbelief. I flipped to the back of the book to see how the author was going to shore up this story and found that the ending was as confusing and complicated as everything that came before it. I gave this book 2 stars based on what I read.