Rating (Out of 5): ~2
Genre: Adult Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Harlequin Blaze
Release Date: 2003
Spoilers?: No.
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Goodreads Synopsis:
The single girl's motto: Have your fun and leave...
Brianne
Wolcott is back in town as co-owner of the hottest singles resort to
hit South Beach. And her past is here to greet her in the form of Aidan
Maddock. A lifetime ago she had a schoolgirl crush on the sexy FBI
agent. But she is so over him now...or is she? The way her pulse reacts
when he's around suggests that she still has a thing for Aidan. Well,
fine. She'll have her one night with him and that's that. Too bad her
libido insists that one night is not enough.Unless you're tempted to stay!
Aidan used up all his resistance to Brianne when he sent her away years ago. No surprise, then, that the sight of a very grown-up Brianne makes him forget all the reasons he refused...especially when she offers to act out the fantasies she'd once whispered in his ear. But she's in for a surprise. Because once they hit the sheets, he's not walking away...ever!
The Cover:
I really dislike this cover. The colors are bad, the little image for the series is horrible, the whole thing just looks tacky and distasteful.
Review:
“Had she really thought that being strong
had to do with knowing when to erect barriers?
Maybe sometimes being a strong woman meant
knowing when to tear them down.” (Paperback, pg. 152)
I picked this up
almost at random a couple years ago, because it sounded interesting and the
title caught my eye. It took me forever to finally read it, though.
I just didn’t care
for it, mostly, and I wanted it to be over.
Brianne is opening
up a club/hotel for single people, trying to fix the image after her
step-father and the husbands/whatever to her partners stole a bunch of money
and disappeared. And then Aiden shows up trying to find her step-father and put
him in jail, after he got away the first time ten years ago. And the chemistry
between them is too much to ignore, I guess.
I just didn’t care
for either character. I didn’t connect to either of them, I didn’t care for
their attraction, and I had a hard time believing both their attraction and
their resisting of it. It just didn’t work for me.
The writing was
boring, too, and I had a hard time reading it. There was too much description
and thought with too little dialogue. And then the action of finding her
step-father was hinted and talked about for the entire book, when very little
happening until the last, maybe, forty pages.
I was bored, and I
wanted it to be over. And I’m glad it is.
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