Review: Takeover

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TARA

I was supposed to be in charge. That was always my intention.

Until that slick corporate raider, Ethan Bradford, clicked his fancy pen and poof! Just like that, I was under him, instead of on top.

Rich and powerful men–especially arrogant, handsome ones–are all the same.

I know exactly how to handle him, but when my father pulls rank and orders me to play nice, my plans of putting him in his place vanish.

I know his type. I’ve been around men like him my entire life, but one chance meeting with him and his son, makes me question everything I thought I knew.

ETHAN

When it comes to business, I always come out on top. Not even being a single dad can slow me down. I never let a good investment get away, and that includes Taylor Toys. After all, business is business, right?

How was I supposed to know a friendly meeting would set me on fire? Tara Taylor is a spoiled princess, used to getting everything she wants.

Sure, her good looks and smart mouth turn me on like nothing else. Despite her hostile stares, she triggered feelings I thought were long dead.

She dares to judge me while she stands there in her designer shoes, looking more beautiful than any marketing exec I’ve ever met. Instead of being grateful that I saved her family’s legacy, she blames me for their failure.

What was meant to be a formality turns into a game of wills.

I never lose. Except this time, I find myself wanting her more than I want to win. I find myself wanting her to take over.

Genre: contemporary romance

Publication date: May 2021

Mature content: yes

Review: I really wanted to enjoy this book and I think the story had potential but, running the risk of going against all the raving reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, I can't bring myself to recommend it, for a series of reasons: 

• Tara and Ethan come across as rude and arrogant and in those first few pages, it was really hard to like any of them
• everyone's language is pretty much inappropriate, even when a four year old child is within hearing range
• Tara and Ethan's banter was probably supposed to be funny, but I found it pretty rude and verbally abusing in places
• Both Tara and Ethan have a tendency to resort to violence (or threaten to) to sort their issues. Granted, some of the issues are pretty serious, but I still can't condone the message 
• Calling a step mother who raised you like her own child and seems to support you all the way "the evil one", again even in front of a child, seems frankly offensive and, again, a negative message to pass through
• The sex scenes are way too explicit and take over half the story. I have nothing against well places sex scenes in romance novels but too much is just...well, too much.

So two stars for the potential and for a few parts of the plot that weren't all that bad, but no more than that.

Happy readings otherwise!

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