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Extravagance
Garner Saunderland leave the tiny town of Monroe, Louisiana for a better education and a chance to make enough money to help put his twin brothers Richard and Randall through college. After graduating, he applies for a job at Rousseau International, a corporate real estate company and ends up getting hired as a personal assistant to the company’s CEO, Brice Rousseau. Brice turns out to be not only handsome and down to earth, but also interested in dating Garner. Garner doesn’t think that he is worthy to be at the man’s side since he comes from a poor family of farmers, but Brice’s family and friends go out of their way to prove him wrong. Brice Rousseau on the other hand doesn’t care a thing about where Garner came from, only that he wants him in his future. It is love at first sight for him and he isn’t going to give up until Garner realizes that they are meant to be together.
75 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 24, 2015
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Shawn Bailey
121 books58 followersShawn Bailey hails from New Orleans, LA, where she works as a programmer and help desk administrator. Shawn loves mangas and anime. Her current hobbies are watching Japanese and Korean dramas, when she has the spare time. She’s also trying to learn to speak and read both Japanese and Korean. She’s also into Korean pop music and can often be found with her MP3 player attached to her head. Shawn is single and enjoying the heck out it.
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July 8, 2015
This review was originally posted on Cocktails and Books
I wanted to love this book. It had some of my favorite things...MM romance, a billionaire, and a young man who wants to succeed on his own and not feel like he's been bought. However, there was just something...off...about it. Not bad, just off. There was insta love, and I don't usually mind that, and there WAS wooing (which I love), but maybe it was because this was a relatively short story that it felt kind of rushed.
I liked the main characters very much. Brice, the billionaire CEO of a real estate company, was very sexy in an Alpha sort of way. Garner, hired as his personal assistant, is from a small town in Louisiana, but he's not portrayed as someone who just emerged from the bayou. He's educated and very qualified for the position. As I said, it was insta love for Brice. Literally. There was a bit of a misunderstanding in his office that leads to his powerful feelings.
In short order, Garner is rather like Cinderella, going to a charity party as Brice's date. It's there that we meet some of the background characters. They're all...ok. At first, I got them kind of mixed up because they're are quite a few of them. They're all nice to Garner, and that's great.
Basically, the only conflict that goes on is from Garner. He doesn't want to appear to be getting the world handed to him because he's sleeping with the boss. And really...the world IS being handed to him. They have great sex, but sometimes it feels like it's picked up in the middle of a scene. They've already started making love, and the details begin then instead of the beginning. It jostled me a bit. Still, I can't complain about it. What I did get was HOT. Shawn Bailey is VERY talented with sex scenes.
Please don't get me wrong. I LIKED this book. I really did. I think it would have been so much better if it had been written as a full length novel. That way, we could get to know what makes the guys tick, learn more about their families, and be able to watch them fall in love a little more slowly. I just discovered that I have another Shawn Bailey book in my TBR pile. I'm going to start reading it ASAP. I'm also planning on reading more of her writing. Some of the titles are very intriguing.
Reviewer information can be found under the Tags section of the post on our site.
I wanted to love this book. It had some of my favorite things...MM romance, a billionaire, and a young man who wants to succeed on his own and not feel like he's been bought. However, there was just something...off...about it. Not bad, just off. There was insta love, and I don't usually mind that, and there WAS wooing (which I love), but maybe it was because this was a relatively short story that it felt kind of rushed.
I liked the main characters very much. Brice, the billionaire CEO of a real estate company, was very sexy in an Alpha sort of way. Garner, hired as his personal assistant, is from a small town in Louisiana, but he's not portrayed as someone who just emerged from the bayou. He's educated and very qualified for the position. As I said, it was insta love for Brice. Literally. There was a bit of a misunderstanding in his office that leads to his powerful feelings.
In short order, Garner is rather like Cinderella, going to a charity party as Brice's date. It's there that we meet some of the background characters. They're all...ok. At first, I got them kind of mixed up because they're are quite a few of them. They're all nice to Garner, and that's great.
Basically, the only conflict that goes on is from Garner. He doesn't want to appear to be getting the world handed to him because he's sleeping with the boss. And really...the world IS being handed to him. They have great sex, but sometimes it feels like it's picked up in the middle of a scene. They've already started making love, and the details begin then instead of the beginning. It jostled me a bit. Still, I can't complain about it. What I did get was HOT. Shawn Bailey is VERY talented with sex scenes.
Please don't get me wrong. I LIKED this book. I really did. I think it would have been so much better if it had been written as a full length novel. That way, we could get to know what makes the guys tick, learn more about their families, and be able to watch them fall in love a little more slowly. I just discovered that I have another Shawn Bailey book in my TBR pile. I'm going to start reading it ASAP. I'm also planning on reading more of her writing. Some of the titles are very intriguing.
Reviewer information can be found under the Tags section of the post on our site.
July 28, 2015
A Joyfully Jay review.
1 star
Clichés and tropes can be used effectively to tell a good story. Sadly, that’s not the case here. This novella is filled with one cliché and stereotype after another, and some of them were used in a derogatory way. And there were multiple tropes at work. The billionaire hero who falls instantly in love with the small town boy trying to make it in the big city. The virgin falling in love with the more experienced older man. Opposites attract. It could have worked, had it been written with more skill, but unfortunately, it wasn’t.
The writing is clunky and stilted. It doesn’t flow smoothly, and it was constantly jarring.
The house before him looked like it fell from the pages a fairy-tale. The huge two-story brick Tudor had an east and a west wing. Garner got out of the car wondering if he looked okay. He walked up to the door and rang the bell. A butler answered the door.
The dialogue is, by turns, over the top ridiculous and unimaginative. Here is an example:
“Your eyes remind me of two blue mint candies,” Brice told him.
Garner smiled up at Brice. “And yours are like emeralds.”
The entire story was a whole lot of telling, without any showing. Even worse, the connections between character’s actions weren’t there and it, at times, read like a laundry list of things the characters were doing.
Read Kris’ review in its entirety here.
1 star
Clichés and tropes can be used effectively to tell a good story. Sadly, that’s not the case here. This novella is filled with one cliché and stereotype after another, and some of them were used in a derogatory way. And there were multiple tropes at work. The billionaire hero who falls instantly in love with the small town boy trying to make it in the big city. The virgin falling in love with the more experienced older man. Opposites attract. It could have worked, had it been written with more skill, but unfortunately, it wasn’t.
The writing is clunky and stilted. It doesn’t flow smoothly, and it was constantly jarring.
The house before him looked like it fell from the pages a fairy-tale. The huge two-story brick Tudor had an east and a west wing. Garner got out of the car wondering if he looked okay. He walked up to the door and rang the bell. A butler answered the door.
The dialogue is, by turns, over the top ridiculous and unimaginative. Here is an example:
“Your eyes remind me of two blue mint candies,” Brice told him.
Garner smiled up at Brice. “And yours are like emeralds.”
The entire story was a whole lot of telling, without any showing. Even worse, the connections between character’s actions weren’t there and it, at times, read like a laundry list of things the characters were doing.
Read Kris’ review in its entirety here.
June 3, 2022
Good plot with poor execution.
June 27, 2015
Bleh...
June 28, 2015
2.5 stars
July 26, 2015
3.25 stars
June 16, 2017
DNF @ 37%. My disbelief suspenders were about to snap due to the strain of holding up the BS in this story, so I had to quit while I was ahead. This was (delusional) fantasy in a contemporary fiction setting. Not what I was expecting.
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