bananatricky's review
2.0
Oh dear, I just don't know where to start with this one.
I think that half of the problems I experienced with this novel are that it is more of a novella (116 pages) and the story needed more time to unfold and more flesh on the bones.
Cara Sinclair was attacked as a young woman but she recalls nothing about the event. her boyfriend at the time, Drake Ross was wrongly accused, by her step-father, of being her attacker and he was arrested and sent to prison until his family bought off Cara's family.
Twelve years later Drake has manoeuvred his way into being made Finance Director at the firm where Cara works and he fully intends to extract revenge for the way in which (as he sees it) Cara lied and extorted money from him and his family.
I really liked the sound of this - as summarised by me above but the execution fell flat for me. Cara was just too wet and virginal and plain confused, there is only so much of that I can take.
Of course, Cara's attacker is someone they both know well and it came as absolutely no surprise to me when his identity was revealed - frankly it couldn't have been any more obvious if he had a flashing neon sign above his head saying creepy attacker over here!
Drake and Cara still have feelings for each other, his despite the fact that he believes she was a con-artist who falsely accused him for money, which inevitably leads to them doing the dirty. Now this bit I thought was well done, Drake turns on Cara afterwards leaving her hurt and confused. At this point I thought the book was going in the right direction, bringing some tension into the relationship etc.
But then, bish bash bosh everything is wrapped up in three more chapters and an epilogue.
I think that half of the problems I experienced with this novel are that it is more of a novella (116 pages) and the story needed more time to unfold and more flesh on the bones.
Cara Sinclair was attacked as a young woman but she recalls nothing about the event. her boyfriend at the time, Drake Ross was wrongly accused, by her step-father, of being her attacker and he was arrested and sent to prison until his family bought off Cara's family.
Twelve years later Drake has manoeuvred his way into being made Finance Director at the firm where Cara works and he fully intends to extract revenge for the way in which (as he sees it) Cara lied and extorted money from him and his family.
I really liked the sound of this - as summarised by me above but the execution fell flat for me. Cara was just too wet and virginal and plain confused, there is only so much of that I can take.
Of course, Cara's attacker is someone they both know well and it came as absolutely no surprise to me when his identity was revealed - frankly it couldn't have been any more obvious if he had a flashing neon sign above his head saying creepy attacker over here!
Drake and Cara still have feelings for each other, his despite the fact that he believes she was a con-artist who falsely accused him for money, which inevitably leads to them doing the dirty. Now this bit I thought was well done, Drake turns on Cara afterwards leaving her hurt and confused. At this point I thought the book was going in the right direction, bringing some tension into the relationship etc.
But then, bish bash bosh everything is wrapped up in three more chapters and an epilogue.
Spoiler
Cara's mother confesses her part to Drake, totally out of the blue, Cara's attacker happens to visit her apartment on the very same day, Drake, Cara's mother and the detective he hired manage to save her at the last minute and they all lived happily ever after.
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