I can’t believe this book is rated is as high as it is. It wasn’t the worst book I’ve read…that one was a couple of days ago but it had some of my biggest pet peeves. I hate, hate, hate instalove. This book had Beni calling Simone his before he even met her. He’d just seen a picture of her. After having know him for less than 48 hours she’s making statements about how he always smells or something he always does. Girl, you don’t know how he always fucking smells, you just met him. You don’t know him. I did like the characters for the most part and the story definitely had potential but I just can’t do it with instalove and making statements about how a person always does this or always does that when they don’t even know them.
Another thing I had an issue with is the ONLY characters in the book who were heterosexual were the main characters. The ex husband ended up being gay and the sister apparently is a lesbian and the brother is bi-sexual. One of the crime bosses of a rival family turned out to be fucking the ex-husband. It was also mentioned that the wife caught them together when she had earlier said she caught him with two prostitutes. I’m not being homophobic. It was just odd just didn’t fit with the story. Actually, the last book I read, which was 5 stars by the way, was an MM werewolf book. There was instalove in that book as well but it was from a mating bond and they didn’t act on it. The story gave the characters time to get to know each other and fall in love. The “instalove” in that story made sense as in the fact it was the mating bond and completely out of their control. If an author can make it work and make it make sense, I’m all onboard but when it doesn’t work, which is most of the time, it totally ruins the book. Same with making everyone gay when it doesn’t feel like that’s who the characters are. I’m probably not making sense but neither did this book. I don’t recommend it.