With the right writer, this book could have been amazing. Unfortunately it's very lackluster. The premise of a marriage of convenience for a foreigner (he's from Canada; that isn't exactly foreign) is a bit of a stretch, but fine, whatever. But it all happens very quickly at the beginning of the book and there isn't much in the way of character building, let alone an introduction. We have no idea what these people look like, which is oaky because that can appeal to a broad audience, but there are ways of claiming physical appearance without excluding people, and that isn't done here. You just have no idea what these people look like. It's strange to me that so much time goes by in short spurts and yet the flow of the story doesn't match the length of time. One paragraph following another could take place weeks later. It was a bit jarring at times.What was apparent about this story is that a lot of the elements seemed to have come from general knowledge or common sense and not any amount of research. For example: for the honeymoon they go to Florida, and Florida is just mentioned as being hot. Everyone knows that. But then they go to "NASA", there is a very brief mention of a vehicle assembly building (described only as a tall white building with an American flag on the side of it), and a woman plainly introduces herself as "I'm an astronaut." (No, I'm not kidding, she literally says 'Hi my name is so-and-so and I'm an astronaut.') The author could have elaborated on what part of Florida they're in (eastern central coast - or more specifically, Titusville in Brevard County, which is where Kennedy Space Center is) but instead chose to be lazy and just refer to "NASA" as though she randomly picked that from a pile of postcards. There's an improbable little side story of them basically getting trained as astronauts and going on a fake mission, and for as much time was dedicated to the MC claiming she'd love to go to the moon (random) there's very little satisfaction in her attending this mini space camp. It was just odd. The characters are bland. There's no real conflict. There are only one or two minor characters and neither of them have much depth, despite what seems to be an attempt in the contrary for the billionaire's sister, who actually acts quite opposite of how she is described. And then we're supposed to believe that they successfully fooled INS but not their friends/co-workers.There's just a lot of lazy storytelling here that could have been spectacular had the story been executed properly, and by the time the book finished (which comes as quite a surprise actually - there's an immediately unspecified time jump of six months between chapters and everything just happens to be resolved) I was left feeling a bit robbed. Fortunately reading this only took half an afternoon of my time and I paid nothing for it. You should know that 8% of the book is advertising for the author's other work (I personally have no problem with that, but 8% of the book is too much), including a couple sequels to this book that I have zero interest in reading. I was so disappointed with this book, and it left me with than rare feeling of "I've wasted my time". The premise isn't original - a billionaire (millionaires are so last century) who needs to arranges a marriage of convenience with a female employee. This is an oft-used storyline because it works. With the right mix of personalities, sex appeal or chemistry and good dialogue you can produce a winner. However this book lacked any of the above, the storyline had huge gaps, rushed time lines, the MCs don't have any sex appeal, they shared no chemistry, the dialogue was dire and the sex scenes were strange and boring. The only good character was the man's sister.
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Very light read... Fun. Totally unrealistic. But then again that's why I read it.
—ppphitcha
This was a quick read. Liked the characters but wish their was more to the plot
—malvar_ecia
I liked this story and really liked the characters. Definitely worth reading!
—taramanka
