Angelica Rose’s mom always told her that desperate times called for desperate measures. Walking into a strip club and asking for an audition certainly qualifies as desperate, but when her mom’s battle with cancer ends months before Angelica is due to start college, she doesn’t feel like she has much choice.
The moment Morgan Cadwell sees her on his stage, he knows she’s the one woman who could … who could make him break all the rules. There’s no way he’s going to let Angelica dance for other men, so he hires her as his live-in personal assistant instead.
Morgan’s offer lets Angelica keep her clothes on…but little does she know that, in the end, he’ll make her bare her soul instead.
Warning: This book is about an alpha caveman and a sweet but fierce virgin heroine who fall ridiculously fast in insta-love. If you’re okay with that, then enjoy!
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Terrific insta-love with a slice of danger
Everyone loves the story of the bad boy who finds the one woman who makes him want to settle down, and in this fun little story Morgan has met his in Angelica. But first, he has to solve all her problems. And that brings its own set of problems with it.
Angelica is likewise smitten with Morgan, and grateful for the opportunities he’s presented to her, but she’s cautious enough about his motives to make sure this insta-love romance takes its time with the insta-lust part. I liked the fact that as much as he wanted her, Morgan respected his Angel enough to let her set the pace.
The bit of danger and intrigue at the end was just enough to cement their relationship without being too very over-the-top. It all works together for a short fantasy novella, and I immediately set out to read the next in the series.
I believe this is one of the most unrealistic books I’ve ever read, and that is saying something since fantasy and supernatural is my favorite genres. There is zero personality, zero depth and 100 % creep factor and sexism. The best thing about this book is that I got it for free.
I don’t know if the author of this book knows this, but it takes more than just sex to make a relationship realistic, meaningful and, most importantly, likable for the reader. The only way the main characters could express themselves was through sex and when it wasn’t sex it was talk about how into each other’s bodies they were or over the top compliments. They could never have a normal conversation where we could at least get som personality from them. No, their relationship had no other meaning than sex and no personalities were part in it either. All I got was that the girl was a huge pushover and just meh, while the guy was super bossy and sexist as f***. He provided everything for her, decided when they should have kids without caring for what she thought. He excluded her in matters that she should have been a part of. He pretty much treated her as property, and the absolute worst part was that she did nothing about it. She was completely fine with it like the whole situation was normal! Talk about being a doormat. It’s 2017. Women should not be described the way Angelica was in this story. Give her som gut, some independence. Make her at least somewhat realistic.
Angelica was not the most unrealistic part in this book though. No, that was Morgan. No man out there in real life has every girl who sees him throwing themselves at him as if women are nothing but sexual predators (talk about sexist). No way in real life would a man just invite a stranger to live with him and provide for her, just because she was hot. If Morgan had existed in real life, he would have been one of those creepy stalkers that had not just gotten a restraining order, but also terrified the poor victim of his obsession with her. That’s how creepy I found Morgan. He was super obsessive over Angelica and yet in the book, that was supposed to show how much he loved and cared for her, like his obsessiveness was something romantic. All I could see was a creep stalker.
I’m struggling to give this story even two stars. The one thing that kind of saves it a bit was that the writing was okay, not great though, and the fact that it was a short book. I don’t think I could have read it to the end otherwise.