Synopsis:
Distraction: The great intensity, novelty, or
attractiveness of something other than the object of attention. Sven is a man
who takes pride in his ability to separate himself from his emotions. He's a
man who knows who he is and where he’s going in life, a man who needs no one,
because needing someone, anyone, is a weakness. His past taught him love isn’t
enough. Maggie wants the happily ever after, but has never picked the right
men, or stuck around long enough, to build a forever. It’s always been easier to
get out early, before emotions make things messy. When Maggie wakes up naked in
Sven’s bed, with no memory of the night before, these two must be honest about
their feelings and face their fears, so they can build a future together. Will
love be enough for them to get their happy ending together, or will a threat
from outside strike them down before they ever have a chance? This book
contains an over the top alpha who knows what he wants, it also contains sexual
situations that may not be suitable for younger audiences.
Sven….
The introduction to this character had me captivated
from the first page. The author starts out with a little background on his
horrific childhood and how that helped shaped the complex man that you read
about later on in the story. Sven uses sex as a weapon he has learned early on
in life to not let women or anyone close to his heart until one day he spots
Maggie “Mags” downstairs in his club.
Maggie….
The club life isn’t her scene but she will do anything
to find the man who beat and drugged her sister. On a mission she doesn’t expect
to come into contact with a live walking Adonis. Because of her sister’s
lifestyle and the new man that has entered her life Maggie is in for a
rollercoaster.
One of the things I loved about this story was the
prologue I wanted to know more about Sven and all his family issues. Unfortunately
his issues with his mom were just brushed over and not fully developed. I didn’t
understand why share all this information and not mention them again until toward
the end of the story. When we were introduced to Maggie she was in her pajamas
in a night club looking for the man who harmed her sister and then like a
chapter later her sister is healing and at home. As I was reading I was trying
to think did I miss something? Why do we hear about this healed sister after
she takes the job? Why is she still at the club if her sister is home? ( I
understand she wants to prevent this from happening again but with her sisters
issues I am sure it’s not an isolated event). I get the seriousness of the
issue but Maggie was at the club every night for two weeks? One thing with this book is that the story has
great promise but lacked execution.
I loved this series and love the author’s work this
story was just a bit of a letdown for me. I don’t know if it was the fact that
Maggie’s characters was to come off as “cute” or “funny” but honestly I felt
her very childish and frustrating. I was almost embarrassed for Maggie with the
language she used it just seemed as though it was a forced funny i.e. “shizzle”
“link-licker” I understand because of her own childhood she and her sister had
to raise themselves but where was her since of self-preservation? This story
had way too many contradictions for my taste i.e. she models, makes a great
salary but has an old school cell phone, unreliable car but is popular because
she knows some of Sven associates. At one point I felt like the author was
writing about different characters. I think their instant connection was fine
but needed to be developed because only and only later in the story did his “mother”
issues come up. I found it hard to believe that he being a business man like he
is didn’t know she was impaired the first night they were together. Around
chapter 4 this story kind of turned around for me a little I felt some
emotional connection with Maggie and the fact that she was so heavily depended
upon from everyone in her life. I just felt that so much of this story things
were mentioned and then brought up again as an afterthought like her boyfriend
at the time. They were together he was common of course but still what happened
because a few chapters later they weren’t together. ( this is just one of the
many examples). I was annoyed with the sister and her approaching Sven the way
he did that didn’t seem normal at all. But I did love that the Mayson family
was mentioned. All in all this story wasn’t bad it just wasn’t my favorite.
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