Beatrix knows there’s something wrong with the world. She knows the injustices she sees every day are part of an order that’s rotten to the core. She wants to fight, but she doesn’t know how, or if she even can. She’s just a geek girl who would settle for a normal life if, only the normal life wasn’t so keen to reject her. A chance meeting and a series of life-changing events send her tumbling … into a spiral of lies and secrecy, a web of intrigue that spans the world.
Four men, worldly-wise but pure of heart, are out to unravel it. They are like brothers, each unique, all united: the soul, caring, good-hearted, and moral; the brawn, powerful, strong, and determined to atone for the mistakes he has made in his past; the passion, dark, driven, obsessed and brooding; and the brain, intellectual, mysterious, and unfathomable. They threw aside the rules of society and made their own a long time ago. They don’t know her, they don’t know if they can trust her, but they know they need her.
As she peels back the layers of mystery, she learns not only who they really are, but who she really is herself. She can never go back. The only way out is through—with them. And nothing will ever be the same again.
Fine Print is a contemporary, non-paranormal reverse harem novel, and the first in the four-book Five Against the World series. It contains few steamy scenes but is explicit and graphic; subsequent books in this series are steamier. It uses language some may find offensive (i.e. swear words).
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**Please note: I was given an ARC for an honest and true review of this book**
Let me start this review with the following: I HATE cliffhangers. Now, having said that…what a cliffhanger! I’m totally looking forward to the next book in the series and Susan, dear, please write quicker!!
Out of all the heroines I’ve read (a few thousand at least!), Bea is the most relatable so far. She’s a young woman just trying to find her place in the world while dealing with today’s true issues for women (Sexual harassment, wage inequality, not being taken seriously in her chosen field, etc).
Susan has written what appears to be some strong alpha heros, but we don’t know much about them at this time, so I’m looking forward to seeing their back stories. This book was just setting up the series primarily and giving us a taste of Bea’s strength, which she didn’t even know she had! I love watching a woman come into her own!
How long until book 2 again?? lol
GAH! This book took me by surprise and obliterated everything I was beginning to think and feel about it. This book started off really slow but once it caught its rhythm, my GOD I couldn’t get enough. I kept turning the pages becoming more and more engrossed until I hit the very end and DIED! It’s a cliff-hanger and I’m sitting here not comprehending that it’s over and that I’ll have to wait for this intriguing and suspense-escalating story to continue.
Beatrix is a woman down on her luck. Being shunned and treated inferior by mysogynist men, she has become ok with status quo. Never truly fighting any battles-simply accepting.
After a fateful meeting with Anton, a helpful stranger, she has no idea her life is about to change.
On her first day at Sandoval-Carr, she bumps into Anton once again. He affords her with an opportunity to work in the IT field that she has been shut out of so many times before for being a female. Here, she meets the director of Special Projects, Noa Bruce. He says he will quadruple her salary but she must prove herself first and trust the team in all things.
Although Noa, sends them all on a team-building trip, she feels separate and knows that they are hiding something. It doesn’t help that she is attracted to her three gorgeous co-workers. Nor does it help that Wilder, one of her co-workers is adamantly against her joining the team.
Will Beatrix be able to prove herself? What do they actually want from her? Who are they really?
This story is told only through Beatrix’s point of view. The slow pace in the beginning almost turned me away but I powered through and I’m so glad I did. This was an amazing read that fully captured my attention and exceeded my expectations.
I loved seeing Beatrix grow as a character and I cannot wait to see further developments. I just know she is going to be on helluva firecracker and a force to be reckoned with.
The men in this book? Sigh! I don’t know how this author did it, but she made me fall in love with each of them.
Anton is so friendly and down to earth. He makes Beatrix feel wanted, beautiful and like she belongs.
Noa is curt and blows hot and cold. But when he blows hot, you have no choice but to melt.
I think my favorite of all however is Wilder. There is so much anger in him but there’s something about him that makes me believe he’s one of the most passionate men. I need and want to know more about him.
This is a perfect beginning for what will be a suspenseful, compelling and page-turning series.
I received an ARC of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.