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A review by izziede
Women of Wine Country: Murder & Mayhem by T. Wells Brown
3.0
This is a new author so I've made allowances as there is potential there but I was tempted to DNF.
It started off and I liked it.
But when the conversation started it stopped working for me.
The mother, who is horrid speaks in CAPITALS, I don't think this is necessary, you can express shouting or emotion through description not caps.
She is overly dramatic and evil so OTT.
The alpha male 'Hero'is also OTT, mixed signals galore.
This is his speech to tell her he cares.
"Doesn’t matter. Let me spell it out for you, little girl: I have been to war, been in battle, watched good men – no - GREAT men - fall dead next to me, while I had to fight on. I’ve had to play bodyguard to beautiful rich fucking women who would let me fuck them any time, anyway, anywhere I wanted.”
"But I have never-ever- felt the rage or possessiveness or sheer terror that came over me when I realized YOU, pain-in-my-ass-beautiful-fucking-Isabella were run off the road and SHOT AT!”
He's such a peach hearing how he was with other women, what a catch. And again the use of caps.
And the constant use of 'Jumpin’ Jezebels!' got on my nerves.
The author claims to write in a similar style to Kristen Ashley.
She has the girl gang posse. The so called Alpha male chasing the resistant heroine but for me there is still a long way to go.
'You can bend a man to your will with your food and your beauty - but the best part is, you have not one fucking clue you’re doing it.”'
I'm sorry if the review seems negative but it's not for me.
I gave it three stars for effort, the vineyard descriptions etc are sweet.
I personally don't like alot of description of house deco and clothes down to matching shoes or jewellery but I appreciate it paints a scene or mood.
For the safety gang.
The heroine seems pretty clueless how desirable she is to every man who comes in contact with her. So she doesn't realise it upsets the Hero.
After they've been having sex and the Hero has been in her bed every night he refuses to take her to a social function, saying he doesn't date.
She attends, her friends are all there. He's there with another woman. His excuse was he'd asked her ages ago. The other woman knows about the heroine and is catty to her.
When they had a conversation about starting things earlier in their relationship the Hero had told her he didn't share and the heroine had mentioned exclusivity, he didn't object.
'The hardest thing Cabe Brown had ever done in his entire fucking life was to let Isabella walk away from him with Capt. Hernandez.
She was right. He had planned for her to hear about his date, but he never expected her to show up and see it. He thought they’d fight; he’d be an asshole about it and Isabella would know not to put her eggs in his basket.
Cabe wasn’t a nice man, and the sooner Isabella learned that the better it was going to be for her ….and him.
What Cabe didn’t expect was to have his heartbeat pick up, his palms to grow sweaty, and his stomach to form a pit.'
His actions are beyond stupid and cruel so he seemed all in but wasn't.
The heroine thinks to herself what made it more hurtful was '
her…but it still didn’t change that he had made love to me the same morning he knew he was going to be going on a date with another woman.'
A positive is the heroine puts him in his place and tells him straight.
She's a mixed bag, strong at times but other times let's him pull her around and kiss her.
Breadcrumbs dropped for future books in series.
HEA.
It started off and I liked it.
But when the conversation started it stopped working for me.
The mother, who is horrid speaks in CAPITALS, I don't think this is necessary, you can express shouting or emotion through description not caps.
She is overly dramatic and evil so OTT.
The alpha male 'Hero'is also OTT, mixed signals galore.
This is his speech to tell her he cares.
"Doesn’t matter. Let me spell it out for you, little girl: I have been to war, been in battle, watched good men – no - GREAT men - fall dead next to me, while I had to fight on. I’ve had to play bodyguard to beautiful rich fucking women who would let me fuck them any time, anyway, anywhere I wanted.”
"But I have never-ever- felt the rage or possessiveness or sheer terror that came over me when I realized YOU, pain-in-my-ass-beautiful-fucking-Isabella were run off the road and SHOT AT!”
He's such a peach hearing how he was with other women, what a catch. And again the use of caps.
And the constant use of 'Jumpin’ Jezebels!' got on my nerves.
The author claims to write in a similar style to Kristen Ashley.
She has the girl gang posse. The so called Alpha male chasing the resistant heroine but for me there is still a long way to go.
'You can bend a man to your will with your food and your beauty - but the best part is, you have not one fucking clue you’re doing it.”'
I'm sorry if the review seems negative but it's not for me.
I gave it three stars for effort, the vineyard descriptions etc are sweet.
I personally don't like alot of description of house deco and clothes down to matching shoes or jewellery but I appreciate it paints a scene or mood.
For the safety gang.
The heroine seems pretty clueless how desirable she is to every man who comes in contact with her. So she doesn't realise it upsets the Hero.
After they've been having sex and the Hero has been in her bed every night he refuses to take her to a social function, saying he doesn't date.
She attends, her friends are all there. He's there with another woman. His excuse was he'd asked her ages ago. The other woman knows about the heroine and is catty to her.
When they had a conversation about starting things earlier in their relationship the Hero had told her he didn't share and the heroine had mentioned exclusivity, he didn't object.
'The hardest thing Cabe Brown had ever done in his entire fucking life was to let Isabella walk away from him with Capt. Hernandez.
She was right. He had planned for her to hear about his date, but he never expected her to show up and see it. He thought they’d fight; he’d be an asshole about it and Isabella would know not to put her eggs in his basket.
Cabe wasn’t a nice man, and the sooner Isabella learned that the better it was going to be for her ….and him.
What Cabe didn’t expect was to have his heartbeat pick up, his palms to grow sweaty, and his stomach to form a pit.'
His actions are beyond stupid and cruel so he seemed all in but wasn't.
The heroine thinks to herself what made it more hurtful was '
her…but it still didn’t change that he had made love to me the same morning he knew he was going to be going on a date with another woman.'
A positive is the heroine puts him in his place and tells him straight.
She's a mixed bag, strong at times but other times let's him pull her around and kiss her.
Breadcrumbs dropped for future books in series.
HEA.