Badly written, which means when the characters are supposed to be flawed and sympathetic… they are idiots who are pathetic.
I almost breathed through the crap, but then she failed to stop her crazy ex from walking out the door with her daughter… and she not only gives into a panic attack without a token attempt to contact help, but she then wakes and curls up so sob her little heart out. Followed by a pity party when the MMC comes home to find the kid missing. Then they both have a chat, she grows something almost resembling a backbone shaped shadow and stops to put on the slinky black female biker leathers he just happens to have lying around the apartment… and they zoom off on THE MOTORBIKE to get their little girl… by themselves… because he’s already threatened to hurt her.
I get abused spouse syndrome’s, and ptsd, and anxiety and panic attacks. This writing did none of it any favours and just made it all irritating.
So a small flyby of a few of my annoyances.
How were they going to get the kid away from the crazy ex with any speed ON A F’ING MOTORBIKE!?!
Why wasn’t the hotel security told to ban the ex from the building? How did someone manage to walk out with the bosses kid everyone has just been introduced to?
Why didn’t she attempt to contact security or 911 during or after the attack?
At the start, she was attacked and almost raped and kidnapped… and literally jumps on the MMC’s cock at first glance. And he lets her, knowing she also had a head injury. The story showed no non consent issues, but it’s all pretty badly done.
She really did seem to think she could trump the judge with her independent DNA test. That entire thread just didn’t work at all, nor did any of her reasoning for the whole story line.
They never really explained the ex. Did he always know the kid wasn’t his? What was his actual reasoning or plans on kidnapping the kid? I half expected him to spout off he needed her back to follow through on his long running con of a life insurance on her, but no. No reasoning at all and he really seemed surprised to be arrested. He was just a caricature from start to finish. No thought whatsoever went into him.
The dog! I love pets in books, but this one wasn’t incorporated. It was mentioned here and there, and had a slightly bigger mention when it interacted with the kid, but over all, was just convenient. It was injured in the final struggle and they just forgot about it when they rode off into the sunset after the baddie.
… I could keep going, but I’ve wasted enough of my life on this. More power to you if this book is your jam, but it was so bad, it’s raising my blood pressure!