3.5 Smooches
Synopsis
Charlotte McKendrick is your typical thirty-something stay-at-home mom. She has three beautiful children, a loving family, special friends, and the most wonderful, adoring husband. Her life is a dream.
Er . . . let’s try this again.
Charlotte McKendrick is not your typical thirty-something stay-at-home mom. Yes, she’s got three beautiful children, a loving family (all of them lingerers—you’ll see), and her friends are special, all right! As far as her wonderful, adoring husband, what a joke! That bastard abandoned her and the kids six months ago.
Now, she will do anything she can to survive and provide for her children. Even if it means signing on the dotted line . . .
Mitch Colton is the CEO of Colton Technologies. Most of his year is spent traveling around the world, bringing companies the latest innovations in automobile technology. He doesn’t have time for a traditional relationship and the BS that comes with it. He doesn’t do the “marriage” thing, the “kid” thing, and he certainly doesn’t do the “falling in love” thing. All that said, he still wants someone to come home to. Someone who will offer everything he wants, and nothing he doesn’t. He realizes loyalty paired with these kinds of demands won’t come cheap. No problem. What he doesn’t realize is that once Charlotte McKendrick signs that dotted line, he’ll be paying with a lot more than money.
This can be read as a standalone!
Review
Charlotte has become a struggling mum of 3, due to her good for nothing husband up and leaving her to survive and provide all by herself. So in a moment of desperation she takes a job. This is not your ordinary job though and it involves one sexy but moody business man named Mitch, a contract and a chance that Charlotte may get everything she deserves or end up completely heart broken.
Having read and enjoyed the other series from this author, I was excited to get started on another with a different plot line altogether. Especially one involving hot business men and contracts! But I was a little disappointed as I didn’t enjoy this book as much as I did the others.
First off let me start by saying that there is definite potential here again. The plot was unique in its on way, the characters were likeable (again in their own unique way) and there were parts of the story I did enjoy.
“Your body knows it. Look at how it responds. It knows it belongs to me.”
The characters, I have to come to realise from this author, are always a bit over the top but they do seem to work. Did Mitch get on my nerves with his constant mood swings and getting angry over what I thought were silly things? Definitely! But just like with previous characters, he did end up redeeming himself. I did however cringe when he kept calling Charlotte’s p***y “kitty” and the way he described playing with it and the use of the term baby was just overused.
Charlotte was a character I liked. I thought her background about her being a struggling but wonderful mother gave her such a strength that I admired and she just always seemed strong, determined and not a pushover which I really liked. So she was a character I enjoyed reading about.
“Her honesty- cripples me.
Her green eyes-Kryptonite to my soul.
Her touch- ignites every fibre of my being.
Her mind- intrigues me.
Her heart-inspires me.”
The plot itself was interesting. Maybe not completely original (we have all read stories concerning business men and contracts) but it was different in its unique way and it worked well. It definitely kept me interested and I did keep turning the pages wondering how everything was going to turn out. However the style and flow of the writing itself didn’t quite work for me. The scenes just didn’t seem to connect sometimes but this is a personal preference I believe and other readers probably would enjoy how the writing was done.
“Your the reason I now have everything I hold dear in life.”
Overall a romance that has great potential, with aspects I really enjoyed. From this book and previous ones I have read, I will continue to look out for more from this author as I can only see her getting better and better with each new book she releases.
Bethany
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