Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The great cover design, the publishing house, so many great reviews enticed me to buy this. What a mistake. MISTAKE. Not very well written. Characters I could never really connect with and couldn't understand their drive except on a superficial level. I agree with another reviewer who noted that the heroine goes from infatuated girl to sex mad sex kitten almost overnight. And our hero Gabe is SUCH a Christian Grey/ Gideon Cross (oh, same publisher!) wannabe and doesn't even come close in any universe. The sizzle was functional at best. Emotional depth- not much if any. The writing was quite thin. And the price of 7.99 ??????!!?? Spoiler alert here, sorry but must be done: The scene in Paris where he ties her up and makes a whorish show of her for his business guests was not only hideous but utterly ridiculous! I mean Mia is his personal assistant, they've just had a business dinner with these 3 other men and now he's making her the sexual centerpiece afterwards. MAKES NO SENSE! Gabe, Mr. Millionaire super successful businessman doesn't realize that this could have BAD repercussions professionally...he's planning on working with these men on an upcoming project. Plus Mia is one of his partner's sister. This won't get back to him??? Nuts! Stupid! Yeah, he does it to prove a point to himself, that he doesn't really have feelings for her, bla bla, I get that, but this was so bad on soooooo many levels. And she goes with it. She was interested in a scenario like this, but hey, pick up some strangers in a bar and do this, not your business associates!!! Ugh. It all goes horribly wrong of course (oh the suspense the danger!) And after her initial freakout she's perfectly fine and enjoying a lavish touristy day in Paris with Gabe. I don't think so. Then later she agrees to go back to Paris with him again for more vacationing. C'mon!!! And Gabe is supposed to be her "Dominant." He keeps saying, "Trust me, I'll look after you." Yeah. I trusted Mr. Grey from the get go. This guy, LAME. He's constantly looking out for himself first and then scrambling to make up for it later. Over and over again. Bad Dom! And yet she keeps spouting many times over like a Stepford Wife: "Oh, you're so good to me!" Nauseating. It did not ring true at all. Another super highlight: one night they are indulging in Mia being tied up naked and he is swatting her with a crop before he takes her up the rear and the author has Mia's brother and Gabe's best friend/business partner walk right in. I cringed!! (then the author has Gabe musing "how could I put Mia in this position..." ARE YOU KIDDING ME! HELLO EDITOR??!!) Don't get me wrong-- I like a hot storyline, I am not talking morality here. No, I'm talking tasteless nonsensical crap. Frankly, it was gruesome. Spare us! There is not much appealing about this book and that includes the super fast wrap up of said suspense and culminates with the sappy fairy tale ending wedding proposal which was truly a YOU MUST BE JOKING moment. Sorry. It started off promising, but no, no, no. THis book was SO disappointing and I had to force myself to finish it. Penguin Publishing? Seriously??? Are we all that hard up for cheap kinky thrills??