With a loser ex-boyfriend threatening her dream business, Sweet Seduction, Genevieve Cain is forced to go to a lawyer to finalise things once and for all. Gen knows she's only good for one dream in her lifetime, so when she meets senior partner, Dominic Anscombe, in the foyer of the law firm's building, she dismisses any delusional ideas her mind creates involving his very fine body. But Dominic is intrigued by Gen's run-away mouth and if there's one thing to say about Dominic Anscombe, he knows what he wants and when he finds it, he sets out to take it, claim it and possess it - completely.
Kidnappings, shootings, dream-shattering moments, hot investigators and just as hot lawyers, everything comes to a head when Genevieve sacrifices something so precious for something even more so. And it wasn't the sacrifice she thought she'd make. The sweetest of sacrifices, the most worthy offering. But can she believe Dominic has fallen as hard for her as she has for him in such a short time? And can she allow herself a second dream in her life, by letting him in?
Genre: romantic suspense
Publication date: December 2023
Mature content: yes
Review: I loved reading the Sector Fleet series by Nicola Claire, and since then I have been wanting to try her contemporary romance/romantic suspense books. And I really, really wanted to like this book. And as I was reading the first few pages, as Gen and Dominic meet, I thought everything was going well. Unfortunately, I was very disappointed.
The problem is not so much the plot in itself, it's more the characters. First, we have Gen. Gen had an on and off relationship with a man who is currently stalking her and threatening to take her beloved coffee shop from her. She does the right think and consults with a lawyer. Then somehow she's kidnapped by the ex-boyfriend, he sort of tells her the lawyer is wrong and she will actually lose the coffee unless she lets him move in with her again. And what does she do? She says yes. To someone she knows is involved with criminal organisations, who stole money from her, and who kidnapped her. And it's not even the first time she says yes. According to her, she's already done it four other times before. Does this even make sense at all? Does it seem this women is capable of making any sane decisions in her life?
Now let's talk about Dominic. Dominic is a partner at law office Gen consults to try to solve her issues with the ex-boyfriend. They have rather funny first meeting, which probably amounts to the best scene in the whole book. Then suddenly the lawyer representing Gen practically disappears and Dominic and his brother, who happens to work in a security company, are the ones running the show. Not entirely realistic, in my opinion, but I could let it pass. But no, it gets worse. Soon Dominic is saying that Gen is his. And not in the let's-be-friends and I'll-help-you sense of the words. It's supposed to be romantic, but in reality it sounds abusing and controlling. It comes to a point where Gen asks him if he thinks it's ok to kidnap her and he says that he thinks it is if it's for her own good. Excuse me?
Dominic is exactly the same as Gen's ex-boyfriend, with two main differences: he's rich and she thinks he's the handsomest mad she ever met. And that, of course, makes his controlling tendencies perfectly ok. And makes her want to have sex with him at all times - their first time against his front door after she tries to run away from him, with his sister in the next room - and fall in love after knowing him less than twenty four hours. Nope. No, thank you.
With all these issues compounded, I barely could make myself finish reading Sweet Seduction Sacrifice. This is book one in a nine-book series but, honestly, at this point in time I'm not even sure I want to give any of the others a try, no matter how many raving reviews I see on Amazon and Goodreads.
Happy readings otherwise,
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