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Ruthless Prick
Lana's dreary life, of sitting behind a nurse's desk and watching people die, gets shaken up when she finds her boyfriend, Jim, dying from a heroin overdose in the bathroom. She packs up, ends her life in Arizona and hits the road to San Diego where she unwittingly signs up to work in a bloodbath clinic where they do nothing but pull bullets out of criminals without notifying the police.
She went from watching people die to work for the mafia.
And what about that man? Tony . A mountain that could crush a man's skull. She meets him while he's smiling with a bullet in his arm like nothing happened at all, and when he told her they were going on a date, she's powerless to stop him, even though he's clearly a part of the mafia.
What was she getting herself into? Why wouldn't anyone, even Tony, answer her questions?
This is a sexy stand alone with a guaranteed HEA.
She went from watching people die to work for the mafia.
And what about that man? Tony . A mountain that could crush a man's skull. She meets him while he's smiling with a bullet in his arm like nothing happened at all, and when he told her they were going on a date, she's powerless to stop him, even though he's clearly a part of the mafia.
What was she getting herself into? Why wouldn't anyone, even Tony, answer her questions?
This is a sexy stand alone with a guaranteed HEA.
2049 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 25, 2017
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Serena Vale
75 books25 followersSerena Vale has been writing and reading since she was very young. She continues to write, and hopes to have another novel after her debut novel, The Truth.
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October 29, 2017
I read this book as part of another book, thinking the ending got left out somehow, so I found the book on Amazon and it's the same...What the heck kind of ending is that??
I've NEVER given a book a one star until now...Between the ending and the disjointed conversations, I'm still shaking my head.
I've NEVER given a book a one star until now...Between the ending and the disjointed conversations, I'm still shaking my head.
May 26, 2020
W. T. Actual. F.
I thought I was getting a short story/novella-length story about a mob guy and a nurse, a bad guy/good girl thing. What I got was a disjointed story full of factual errors, plot inconsistencies, unlikable leads with no romantic connection, plenty of circular romantic angst, and (unlike what's promised in the official blurb) no HEA. Heck, no HFN! And all iced with some typos and grammatical errors to add to the confusion.
Seriously, I was almost getting angry at this one. I could probably ramble on about all the things driving me up the wall, but I'd end up writing more words than were actually in the story. Like, there's plenty of Lana angsting over her and Tony's relationship, including trying to talk herself out of being with someone who's keeping such serious secrets. Yet, within their first meeting or two, she 'has no choice but to be with him,' like someone with absolutely no spine or free will of her own. Over and over and over in circles (I honestly think this was the majority of the text). This is a romance? There was no connection between them, yet they're declaring "I love you" within just a few days. And then they have one of the least sexy sex scenes I've read recently. Maybe I've read too many shifter stories recently, but someone "tearing into" someone else's neck isn't a sexy scene-setting description. And what the heck is an LPN doing removing bullets and stitching up major wounds? She addresses it as 'oh, it's illegal so we don't talk about it,' but where would she learn to do it?? She's been working at an old folks' home since she got her license! And what's with the incinerators? Bodies are given time to be claimed, not immediately dumped in an incinerator. Sounded like some dystopian future setting. And for a city that's had less than 100 murders per year over the last few years, this massive blood bath war is weird. Seriously, in 2017, San Diego was named the safest big city in the US by the FBI with respect to violent crime per capita. Yet, this war thing Lana's working in has between 24-50 deaths in one afternoon at one clinic?? Which is weird anyway - she's estimating 50 deaths in the afternoon, but yells about two dozen deaths to Tony when she gets home. ... And I'm going to stop myself before I really get going, but you get the idea. It's all over the place.
Third person POV from Lana's view. Minor OW drama (which never was really resolved). Minor OM drama from Lana's ex (how did he even find her??). No cheating. No love triangles. Plenty of angst, though - lots of circular waffling from Lana, yet no connection between the leads. No real ending, HEA, HFN or otherwise. They're riding off together into/away from some sort of gang war? They haven't addressed anything between them personally or dealing with the families. I guess you'd call it a cliffhanger, except I have absolutely no inclination to find out what happens.
Would I read more from this author? I'm giving her one more, maybe two (she's had a bunch of short stories available for free on Kindle recently), because some of her plot summaries sound interesting. We'll see. This one definitely isn't motivating me to read more. At least I didn't pay for it.
I thought I was getting a short story/novella-length story about a mob guy and a nurse, a bad guy/good girl thing. What I got was a disjointed story full of factual errors, plot inconsistencies, unlikable leads with no romantic connection, plenty of circular romantic angst, and (unlike what's promised in the official blurb) no HEA. Heck, no HFN! And all iced with some typos and grammatical errors to add to the confusion.
Seriously, I was almost getting angry at this one. I could probably ramble on about all the things driving me up the wall, but I'd end up writing more words than were actually in the story. Like, there's plenty of Lana angsting over her and Tony's relationship, including trying to talk herself out of being with someone who's keeping such serious secrets. Yet, within their first meeting or two, she 'has no choice but to be with him,' like someone with absolutely no spine or free will of her own. Over and over and over in circles (I honestly think this was the majority of the text). This is a romance? There was no connection between them, yet they're declaring "I love you" within just a few days. And then they have one of the least sexy sex scenes I've read recently. Maybe I've read too many shifter stories recently, but someone "tearing into" someone else's neck isn't a sexy scene-setting description. And what the heck is an LPN doing removing bullets and stitching up major wounds? She addresses it as 'oh, it's illegal so we don't talk about it,' but where would she learn to do it?? She's been working at an old folks' home since she got her license! And what's with the incinerators? Bodies are given time to be claimed, not immediately dumped in an incinerator. Sounded like some dystopian future setting. And for a city that's had less than 100 murders per year over the last few years, this massive blood bath war is weird. Seriously, in 2017, San Diego was named the safest big city in the US by the FBI with respect to violent crime per capita. Yet, this war thing Lana's working in has between 24-50 deaths in one afternoon at one clinic?? Which is weird anyway - she's estimating 50 deaths in the afternoon, but yells about two dozen deaths to Tony when she gets home. ... And I'm going to stop myself before I really get going, but you get the idea. It's all over the place.
Third person POV from Lana's view. Minor OW drama (which never was really resolved). Minor OM drama from Lana's ex (how did he even find her??). No cheating. No love triangles. Plenty of angst, though - lots of circular waffling from Lana, yet no connection between the leads. No real ending, HEA, HFN or otherwise. They're riding off together into/away from some sort of gang war? They haven't addressed anything between them personally or dealing with the families. I guess you'd call it a cliffhanger, except I have absolutely no inclination to find out what happens.
Would I read more from this author? I'm giving her one more, maybe two (she's had a bunch of short stories available for free on Kindle recently), because some of her plot summaries sound interesting. We'll see. This one definitely isn't motivating me to read more. At least I didn't pay for it.
June 10, 2023
Gaah, I absolutely hate books that end on a cliffhanger with no warning, but it’s even worse when the story is so disjointed and unbelievable that you’re left wondering what the hell you just read. Lana is whiny and can’t seem to make up her mind whether to stay with the MMC or not. She knows he’s involved with the mob in some way, yet expects him to tell her all his secrets. Come on! Then there are all the dead bodies piling up at the clinic where Lana works, making it sound as if there's no law and order in San Diego! Surely someone would have been investigating the clinic if this was the case. It was all just too OTT, although I had a few laughs with some of the typos like when “He swooped in behind her and grabbed her by the waist so he could pull her down onto the bed where he held her tight with his back against her chest and his cock sticking between her thighs.” Now that I would love to see, that monster must be three feet long to reach that far. 😊
July 25, 2019
Where is the HEA that is promised???
June 28, 2020
Struggling to finish this, the story is too choppy and no real depth to the characters. It's a good storyline and written better it would be a good read.
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