Review: Enjoyed it
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 1, 2014
All in all, a great read. Very sexy, terrific chemistry between the characters, and I read it in about twenty-four hours.The good: It drew me in and kept me speeding through the pages. Dmitri is everything I love in an alpha hero--he's alpha, very dominating, but he treats Presley with respect, with kindness. He doesn't talk down to her. A lot of "alpha" heroes in today's romances are jerks that for the life of me I can't figure out why the heroine would even give him the time of day. So, for me, that made Dmitri drool worthy. He's what kept me reading. Also, their chemistry together was super high and very well done. This is where the author flourishes. They were burning up the pages, which is what sucked me in.The bad: While I enjoyed them, I couldn't connect to the characters. Their individual backstories weren't quite fleshed out. Also, around 65% in, (and the book ends at 85%) about where they'd begun to see each other outside of the club... all the wonderful detail the author gave the reader in the beginning of the book disappears here. The author sort of skimmed over the details and I found I missed getting to see that wonderful chemistry between Dmitri and Presley. It left me feeling a bit...gosh, bereft is such a strong word, but it's how I felt. I went, "where'd it go?" and I kept turning (skimming but not really reading) the pages hoping it would come back.What Dmitri does, toward the end of the book, to help Presley get "over" not standing up for herself I found to be very sudden, and the author almost lost me. Presley felt too betrayed in that moment to just shrug it off the way she did, and that's mostly because they took so much time in the beginning talking about limits and how the Dom will never cross it. It seemed cruel and for those few moments, everything I loved about Dmitri went up in smoke. I didn't enjoy that part. It wasn't sexy to me and it put the hero in a bad light. So, honestly, I felt a bit betrayed with Presley. I wanted to see her give it to him good and him have to make up for it and she didn't. I honestly put the book down here.The ending was lovely, but very abrupt.All in all, though, I enjoyed this. It kept me reading and even when I put it down, that chemistry between the characters pulled me back. I had to know how the book ended. Which, to be honest, has been rare for me lately. So, not my favorite book of all time. I took off a star because it had too many problems I couldn't get over. But I'm looking forward to Aiden's book.