Horrible - Just An Excuse to Describe Sex - The Book goes NOWHERE.
This book is based on an intriguing idea, but there is NO character development - NONE! Jenna, the debt ridden accounting lackey from Texas, is AFRAID of David, her boss. How on earth could the author hope to convey the development of LOVE in just 4 weeks time? The 4 weeks aren't even described in detail. It's all: 1) boy meets girl and makes the proposition; 2) boy and girl have sex at his place, and get married and have sex in Vegas and then have sex again back at his place. All this time she is resistant to him (not the sex). Then he confesses that this whole thing was a rouse to get her in bed b/c he's been lusting after her for 6 months. Then he asks her to ditch the contract they had, to which she agrees. Excuse me? Totally incredible. Then in a quick wrap up of the story with 1 paragraph beginning something like "Four weeks later" and ending in "i love you"s from both characters. I mean, seriously, this book is only about writing sex scenes. There could have been several more chapters that described their life over those 4 weeks that showed the development of their feelings for each other. Or Even Better - keep that whole "i love you" think until the year mark - show how they are after a year of marriage. There is just no possible way that these characters could exist. If I could get my money back for this book, I would.
You might ask, "Well, Avid Reader, why did you buy the book in the first place? The title should have told you all." I would respond as follows: Historically, romance novels are not titled in such a way to describe the book, nor does the cover art necessarily say ANYTHING about the story. Along the same vein, the book description/ summary provided by the publisher doesn't necessarily tell you the truth either. I have actually thought to myself that a particular book would have been better had it been named something else, only to have the author confirm on her website that she wasn't able to name it what she wanted. The publisher chooses the cover art, title and book description, and since this could have nothing to do with the story, if a particular aspect of any of those three intrigues me, I'll download the sample and go from there.
