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3.36 AVERAGE
3.36 AVERAGE
Nooooooooooo
I am gutted to have reached the end of the book, I'm not actually sure I'm capable of waiting for the next book.
I love Charlotte, she's so spunky . Easton, well I love him and hate him in equal measure ,much the same as Charlotte does.
I was intrigued after reading an excerpt of A debt owned. I was lucky enough to receive this Arc for an honest review.
Clarissa has a wonderful way of making you feel the lead characters emotions. This leads to a incredibly interesting read.
I am gutted to have reached the end of the book, I'm not actually sure I'm capable of waiting for the next book.
I love Charlotte, she's so spunky . Easton, well I love him and hate him in equal measure ,much the same as Charlotte does.
I was intrigued after reading an excerpt of A debt owned. I was lucky enough to receive this Arc for an honest review.
Clarissa has a wonderful way of making you feel the lead characters emotions. This leads to a incredibly interesting read.
3.5 StarsI've always been a fan of this author's books (more or less). She has an easy way to her writing that pulls you in right from the start. It was also a relatively short book, so the plot moved along at a good clip. The plot itself was intriguing. An enemy to lovers type of tale. Although, we are still mostly in the enemies part by end of part one. (lol) Still the couple had some decent chemistry, which makes me excited to see where the story goes in the book two.
I was a little surprised by the lack of heat in this book. I am used to this author's books being sizzling and dirty, but this one was much tamer in that department. However, I am sure the "sizzling" is coming. There was no OW or OM drama. I didn't find this particularly angsty, but there are a lot of acrimonious exchanges between these two.
Which leads me to the main issue I had with this book, and that was Easton himself. I'll admit it...I didn't like him. I didn't quite understand why he blamed Charlotte for something her father did. And the reason he was angry with Charlotte (a perceived slight) was pretty lame (IMO). Considering he saw what happened to her when she was a girl and stood up to her father, it seemed a little over the top to have that much anger towards her. Her father, ya, fine...I got that part, but the way her treated Charlotte through the whole book rubbed me the wrong way. Now, Charlotte herself I LOVED. She didn't bow down (most of the time) and I loved that about her. I was cheering her on at the end of this one and I can't wait to see what she gets up to in the conclusion.
So a bit of a mixed bag with this one. Easton (and his behavior) was the main issue for me, and I am hoping we get a (little) softer Easton in book two to smooth out some of his rough edges. I want to feel that he has some feelings for Charlotte and it isn't all about revenge and control. So we'll see...fingers crossed and all that.
She’s my hostage, someone I keep in a soft and velvety cage for my selfish needs.
What would you do if you were forced to marry someone you didn’t love, but if you didn’t you would watch someone you love die.
Charlotte is a tortured soul. All her life she has gone out of her way to try and please her father, to gain some kind of attention from him but he’s always just viewed her as an annoyance, someone he tolerates just because he has to. She’s been physically abused by him (at his own wedding no less) and now she has to save his sinking business by being the trade off against a hefty loan. She’s is the only innocent character is this situation. Her brother sucked, her father sucked and by god did Easton suck big hairy balls! Charlotte despite her flaws cares immensely for her family and doesn’t want to see any of them dead so accepts the situation grudgingly. It is through time that she realises that she really can’t live like this and has to find some means of escape. She is Easton’s wife but only in name, she is a captive, a prisoner. She’s watched 24/7. She’s not entitled to privacy, freedom or autonomy. This isn’t what she imagined for life, not at all.
OH EASTON, EASTON, EASTON
Where on earth do I begin with Easton? Between him and his father I really struggled to differentiate which was the bigger devil. Her father was a giant arse for sailing his daughter out to sea and basically selling her and Easton for having in it his head to buy her but also blame HER for his vendetta against her father.
The trouble I’m having is that I really liked the dark nature of Easton but a lot of his behaviours were borderline obsessive and out of order. The reason he wanted revenge against Charlotte was an apparent slight she gave him when they were in his father’s restaurant. She was extremely frightened of her fathers behaviour and knew what would happen if she spoke out against him. The fact that someone as cocky and arrogant as Easton held this grudge was pretty sad. A quick conversation could have put this wrong to rights (which Charlotte did, years later but Easton wasn’t for accepting it.) The way Easton treated Charlotte through the majority of the book was irking me. How I expected it to pan out was a kind of stolkholm syndrome type of plot. It is very clear that Charlotte is softening him up but why he continues to deny himself a love he’s felt since he first met her, I don’t understand.
Charlotte was an amazing character – Strong, caring towards family that quite honestly, don’t give a shit about her. Even although Easton thought he was running the whole show, really it was Charlotte. She used her sexuality against Easton to get what she wants and she didn’t often bow down to his demands. She held out a lot longer than I think Easton expected. I had a lot of respect for Charlotte’s character.
This was an enemy to lovers type of plot, I think at least this is where book 2 will lead us. The plot itself was fast paced and I lost track of time whilst I read it, I was that hooked. There wasn’t a lot of hot, steamy action in this book, which was fustrating because they had sexual chemistry by the boat load. I’m looking forward to seeing where book 2 takes us, and fingers crossed seeing a softer, more laid back Easton.
4 STARS
What would you do if you were forced to marry someone you didn’t love, but if you didn’t you would watch someone you love die.
Charlotte is a tortured soul. All her life she has gone out of her way to try and please her father, to gain some kind of attention from him but he’s always just viewed her as an annoyance, someone he tolerates just because he has to. She’s been physically abused by him (at his own wedding no less) and now she has to save his sinking business by being the trade off against a hefty loan. She’s is the only innocent character is this situation. Her brother sucked, her father sucked and by god did Easton suck big hairy balls! Charlotte despite her flaws cares immensely for her family and doesn’t want to see any of them dead so accepts the situation grudgingly. It is through time that she realises that she really can’t live like this and has to find some means of escape. She is Easton’s wife but only in name, she is a captive, a prisoner. She’s watched 24/7. She’s not entitled to privacy, freedom or autonomy. This isn’t what she imagined for life, not at all.
OH EASTON, EASTON, EASTON
Where on earth do I begin with Easton? Between him and his father I really struggled to differentiate which was the bigger devil. Her father was a giant arse for sailing his daughter out to sea and basically selling her and Easton for having in it his head to buy her but also blame HER for his vendetta against her father.
The trouble I’m having is that I really liked the dark nature of Easton but a lot of his behaviours were borderline obsessive and out of order. The reason he wanted revenge against Charlotte was an apparent slight she gave him when they were in his father’s restaurant. She was extremely frightened of her fathers behaviour and knew what would happen if she spoke out against him. The fact that someone as cocky and arrogant as Easton held this grudge was pretty sad. A quick conversation could have put this wrong to rights (which Charlotte did, years later but Easton wasn’t for accepting it.) The way Easton treated Charlotte through the majority of the book was irking me. How I expected it to pan out was a kind of stolkholm syndrome type of plot. It is very clear that Charlotte is softening him up but why he continues to deny himself a love he’s felt since he first met her, I don’t understand.
Charlotte was an amazing character – Strong, caring towards family that quite honestly, don’t give a shit about her. Even although Easton thought he was running the whole show, really it was Charlotte. She used her sexuality against Easton to get what she wants and she didn’t often bow down to his demands. She held out a lot longer than I think Easton expected. I had a lot of respect for Charlotte’s character.
This was an enemy to lovers type of plot, I think at least this is where book 2 will lead us. The plot itself was fast paced and I lost track of time whilst I read it, I was that hooked. There wasn’t a lot of hot, steamy action in this book, which was fustrating because they had sexual chemistry by the boat load. I’m looking forward to seeing where book 2 takes us, and fingers crossed seeing a softer, more laid back Easton.
4 STARS