So Much Potential
This is the latest story by Lauren Wood who has been one of my favourite authors for a while now. The story surrounds a billionaire called Red Dyson who is a rather mysterious man with some very ‘dodgey’ dealings. I wasn’t too happy that he went to buy a gun from an awful man called Goff or Golf or Gulf depending what part of the book you were reading. he’s so vile that he’s kidnapped a young woman called Kristan from England and brought her to the USA [how did they get through customs??] thinking that she is Red’s sister Anna by mistake. When Red sees her he is attracted to her and agrees to pay the ‘ransom’ as he wants her in his bed. He makes her work for him to pay off her ransom debt!!!!She’s attracted to him and agrees and has to go everywhere with him – including sharing his home where they fall into bed together. But Red only beds a woman once and then discards her. But he doesn’t with her. There was so much potential here – ignoring the typo errors. I know this is fiction but really to develop the characters for this storyline I feel it needed to be much longer – particularly for Red’s character as he had so much to alter in his personality that with his ‘instant’ changes came across as false. If he had been a decent and honorable man he would have immediately taken Kristan to the authorities to repatriate her and help her through her trauma – NOT blackmail her into paying off her ransom debt. I know there is supposed to be an instant attraction between them but even so he could still have made a connection with her whilst trying to help her through her ordeal legally. This is all at the beginning of the book and I’m not giving anything away that happens at the end you’re going to have to read it for yourself to find out what happens to everyone. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
