nadenetotallyaddictedtoreading's review
3.0
I have read a few books written by this author and I have found them entertaining. A MALIBU KIND OF ROMANCE falls in the same category. This is a story for readers who enjoys celebrity romance that is hot with a hint of sweetness.
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krista's review
2.0
I can accept Julie's reaction to finding out she was roofied the night before, but the way everyone else handled it was so jarring to me that I put this book down for several months before coming back to finish it.
"I took you to my room. Esha cleaned you up and put you to bed. She sat with you while the doctor checked you out. He drew your blood. The police will need it to test it for the drug to have a case against Carlos."
She touched her arm where the Band-Aid had been. Mystery solved. "You called a doctor?"
"I wanted to make sure you were OK. My doctor lives nearby. If I would have shown up with you at the hospital it would have been a media circus. After I threw everybody out and dealt with the police, I came up here and watched you all night.[...]I was pretty sure whatever he gave you would just knock you out, but I didn't want you to get sick again and no one be there."
(page 125-126)
Minus this plot point, I would give the book 3 stars, but it bothered me enough that it knocks a whole star off. What kind of doctor draws the blood of an unconscious person and lets them stay unmonitored in a random bedroom with an unknown drug in their system?! (Also I'm pretty sure the police need to have some kind of evidence chain for that blood in order to use it, based on what I see on Law and Order, but that's beside the point.) Hospital stays can absolutely be kept quiet! This was just so...unnecessarily unsafe for Julie. Not romantic to me AT ALL.
"I took you to my room. Esha cleaned you up and put you to bed. She sat with you while the doctor checked you out. He drew your blood. The police will need it to test it for the drug to have a case against Carlos."
She touched her arm where the Band-Aid had been. Mystery solved. "You called a doctor?"
"I wanted to make sure you were OK. My doctor lives nearby. If I would have shown up with you at the hospital it would have been a media circus. After I threw everybody out and dealt with the police, I came up here and watched you all night.[...]I was pretty sure whatever he gave you would just knock you out, but I didn't want you to get sick again and no one be there."
(page 125-126)
Minus this plot point, I would give the book 3 stars, but it bothered me enough that it knocks a whole star off. What kind of doctor draws the blood of an unconscious person and lets them stay unmonitored in a random bedroom with an unknown drug in their system?! (Also I'm pretty sure the police need to have some kind of evidence chain for that blood in order to use it, based on what I see on Law and Order, but that's beside the point.) Hospital stays can absolutely be kept quiet! This was just so...unnecessarily unsafe for Julie. Not romantic to me AT ALL.
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