Review: Not for me.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 11, 2014
Since each mini book is about 33,000 words rather than review them separately I’m going to review them as the box set since that makes the completed volume.Right off the bat I hated our heroine Raina.  I know I’m not known for showing my heroine love, but Raina is particularly bad.  She is one of those girls that is all flustered and love sick right from the start. I could not stand how she falls all over herself, there was no fight in her at all. She’s clingy. Basically Raina is the embodiment of everything I hate in a heroine.I don’t have much to say on Tristan, I found him to be one-dimensional for a lead character and therefore didn’t connect with him.  I didn’t even find the sex all that great and by the end of the book found myself skipping it. They have a lot of sex and I didn’t find his dirty talk sexy. I don’t know what it was because normally I am all for the dirty talk, but not with Tristan. He just came off as bossy and demanding.And while we’re discussing the lack luster sex I’ll mention that they have sex for the first time without discussing condoms or birth control. Normally this is not something I would mention or notice, but it just stuck out in this book. I even went back and read the section again just to make sure I didn’t miss anything… nope not there. I don’t even know why this bothers me so much since it’s fiction and all that, but for some reason it did.Year of the Billionaire (which by the way, all three books take place in less than a year, but whatever) reminded me of Fifty Shades of Grey. I mean even our hero’s name is Tristan.. Christian, Tristan.. yeah.  These two have the whole insta-love thing going on. It’s not mentioned as insta-love but that’s what it is. At least for Raina.Everything in this book happens way too fast, probably why it didn’t take a whole year for the relationship to reach completion. As I mentioned Raina is just such a push over. “oh you want to buy me closets full of clothes? Ok.” Or “Oh, you want me to skip all my interviews and go on vacation? Ok.” Tristan takes over her life and starts to dictate everything for her, towards the end I’m not quite sure what choices Raina even made on her own.  Even on the rare occasion she would get upset about something Tristan did or said she’d quickly get over it because, well you know that was easier.Honestly I just wasn’t taken by any of these books. It wasn’t the type of story I find exciting. The conversations were a bit stiff and too conversationy (yes I made that up). Not only did the dialog not do it for me, but the writing style in general lacked a lot of detail. Add to the fact that Raina seems to go along with anything the story in itself was just too easy. We get some action here and there but nothing really comes of it. Everything from their relationship to life situations was resolved so quickly and effortlessly.If you are really into the whole Fifty Shades plot line and don’t mind the other things I’ve mentioned take a chance on this book. It wasn’t my cup of tea, but it might be yours.