I was excited to continue with Eddie’s book. This was an interesting one. While I didn’t like it as much as the other three books, this had its moments and was a pretty good story. One of the things I didn’t care for in this book was the use of Katie’s nickname Eddie gave her, which was Pinky. I get it was because he loved her hair and that drew him to her on first glance but to use it throughout the book kind of gave this a little bit of cheese I don’t think this book needed. It’s cute for a term of endearment between the two of them, but to call her that in public and to also get his brothers to call her that just ruined the intimacy of it. When there’s an emotional moment between them when he gets worried about her and finds her, he calls her that out of gratefulness that she’s ok and I think for a serious moment like that, Pinky just didn’t fit for the situation. When he calls her name out of exasperation because he’s scared and thinks he lost her, that also wasn’t a good situation to say it in. I mean, am I the asshole or is this like a normal thing? I think what I also didn’t like about it was the fact that Eddie does hide his identity from Katie most of the duration of this book. I didn’t like the lying and fact that he kept such a big part of his life hidden from her. I get he was trying to feel her out before the big reveal due to his reputation and worry about women only wanting him for his name and money but to let it go on as long as it did, well that didn’t sit well with me. He should have told her much sooner. On the other end of the stick, Katie didn’t really give him the chance to tell her. Anytime he got the guts to do it, and tried to, she would stop the confession from happening by getting him thinking about sex and their time in the moment. It isn’t necessarily a bad thing but I’m not going to pin this all on Eddie. I just think in general, it shouldn’t have dragged on. Katie gets hurt from finding out his real identity at a stressful point in the book and the timing was just off with everything. It should have been revealed in a quiet and personal moment between Katie and him. In fact, it was what drives the wedge between Katie and Eddie. The surprising thing about this is the fact that while Eddie hides a big part of himself most of the story, the moment Katie finds out about him and his brothers the book was barely over half way finished so I knew more would be coming. It got me questioning what else this book would entail and I knew it would be a lot when there is a small separation between the hero and heroine when the book is a little after 50% completed. Normally, this is the point when the hero and heroine have their first night together and it sets the stage for feelings coming to light. In this book, it marks their first misunderstanding. From there, you witness Eddie profusely try to win her back and the way he ends up doing it didn’t require a grand gesture. This was a nice change, as most of these books use a grand gesture to get the heroine back. All it took in this story was some encouragement from the girls in the other books and lots of explaining. From there, a scary situation happens to Katie, and Eddie’s family is thrown into her baggage and past that requires the whole family to come together and deal with those ramifications. This goes on for a little while, and Katie is thrown into the family dynamics and she soon realizes they come through for each other and can use their resources and status to take care of things and use them for good. Once this pulls through, things seemingly go back to normal, Katie accepts him for the billionaire he is and Eddie is ecstatic. In his mind, now he can treat her like a princess, buying her things, taking her to his house and filling her in on all his family has and can offer for her out of the kindness of his heart and all the love. There is just one issue that the book overlooks, Eddie’s mother. If you’ve read the books up to this point, you know their mother is a sore spot and always a wrench in the boys’ chances of happily ever after. She tends to ruin it and put people’s lives at risk. By now I’m thinking she’ll definitely have a hand in whatever traumatic experience Katie will go through, aside from the scary situation she experiences before it gets taken care of. I felt this while I was reading all this and especially since she didn’t have anything to do with Tennyson and Willow’s trauma in the last book. I knew she wasn’t done, so imagine my surprise when she doesn’t do anything to Katie and it ends up being something else. I was so happy this book went in that direction and even though it was a nice surprise, it wasn’t enough to give this book a 5. The nickname debacle and the hidden identity just didn’t do it for me. I like hidden identities if the hero or heroine lets it go for a short period of time, but to have it last the first half, maybe a little bit past then was too long. Katie ends up getting hurt and feeling played. It works for a plot, but long term and dragging, it didn’t work for me. Overall, the steam, emotion and passion were amazing in the story. Their connection was palpable and surprises get thrown in at the end. I figured this out myself, knowing it would happen and knew a random character showing up would come back and play a part in the story and in continuing the series. It tells me that Samantha wasn’t done with this series yet so she added in a last minute shock that we all knew was coming. I wish she had introduced us to the surprise in this book, but I guess that will get explored in the next story and also touch on this mysterious character that just shows up consistently throughout the book.