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4.0
Bad Santa
I enjoyed reading this book it was very entertaining and action packed. Gina's little sister steal money from her employer and goes on holiday. Osagie wants his money back so they kidnapped Gina. This book is part of a series that I recommended you read.
I enjoyed reading this book it was very entertaining and action packed. Gina's little sister steal money from her employer and goes on holiday. Osagie wants his money back so they kidnapped Gina. This book is part of a series that I recommended you read.
amakaazie's review against another edition
4.0
Enjoyed this! Osagie kidnaps Gina to settle a score. They fall in love. Throw in a feisty heroine and some kinky sex and you get an exciting love connection.
Finished in a day.
Worth the read.
Finished in a day.
Worth the read.
nicolewhopickedthisbook's review against another edition
adventurous
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5.0
I gotta read the rest of the series!! When Osagie finds out he’s been robbed, he’s looking for swift retribution but when he’s instantly attracted to the thief’s sister, Osagie finds it’s a little more complicated than he first realized, especially when the attraction is mutual.
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4.5
This is another fantastic addition to the Enders series and a great Christmas dark romance. If kidnapping and mafia bosses have never seemed Christmassy to you in the past, let me tell you, it works! There’s enough Christmas in this that if you were reading this at Christmastime, you’d feel the seasonal “awwwws,” but there’s also not sooooo much Christmas in this that reading this feels like you’re reading it out of season. This novella is probably my favourite in the series so far, featuring older main characters, 50-year-old Osagie, mafia Don and club mogul on Lori Osa, and 40-year-old gym owner and former championship athlete, Gina.
The premise is that Gina’s younger sister works for Osagie and unbeknownst to Gina, embezzles thousands of dollars from her dangerous boss (Osagie) to go on vacation and a shopping spree to Dubai. When Osagie kidnaps Gina to use as security to get his money back and find out more about the whereabouts of Gina’s younger sister, he doesn’t expect the instant attraction he feels for her. But in his line of work, with his experiences, trust is everything and he’s not sure Gina can be trusted.
I really liked this book, kidnapping premise and all. I liked that Gina never let attraction remove her common sense, I liked that she wasn’t ever powerless and always had fight left in her, I liked that she stepped up and was powerful in the climax of the story when she discovered why she was kidnapped. I really liked her chemistry with Osagie. For a short novella, I enjoyed the build of that chemistry from Instalust to... “more.” This is pretty mucha slow burn, but it does get to a pretty high heat level at the end, not red alert heat like the previous book, but pretty hot. But even without that component, this would have been a delight to read. Unlike other heroines in the previous two Enders series books, Gina is neither a damaged heroine nor given to self destruction. Being somewhat of a more mature character, she knows and has come to terms with who she is and it shows in her interactions with the hero. Even with the kidnapping set up and the awkward power dynamics that can bring between the kidnapper and the kidnappee, Gina never felt like the victim. There were really good statements made in this book about consent and it was in all, very sex positive. This novella retains the need for moral justification by the reader. The hero is clearly a bad guy but we love him because he’s gorgeous and cute when he’s with the heroine. That’s the nature of this kind of dark mafia-style romances. I think they’re for very specific audiences who are done with doing the work of that moral justification and overlooking the much more horrible side of organized crime which features a bit in this novel. If this was the only story we got from Gina and Osagie, I would have been happy, but I’m even more excited to know that this is only a prequel and that the author plans a full novel for them later. I can hardly wait. One of my absolute favourite series by an African authors Can’t wait to read more!
The premise is that Gina’s younger sister works for Osagie and unbeknownst to Gina, embezzles thousands of dollars from her dangerous boss (Osagie) to go on vacation and a shopping spree to Dubai. When Osagie kidnaps Gina to use as security to get his money back and find out more about the whereabouts of Gina’s younger sister, he doesn’t expect the instant attraction he feels for her. But in his line of work, with his experiences, trust is everything and he’s not sure Gina can be trusted.
I really liked this book, kidnapping premise and all. I liked that Gina never let attraction remove her common sense, I liked that she wasn’t ever powerless and always had fight left in her, I liked that she stepped up and was powerful in the climax of the story when she discovered why she was kidnapped. I really liked her chemistry with Osagie. For a short novella, I enjoyed the build of that chemistry from Instalust to... “more.” This is pretty mucha slow burn, but it does get to a pretty high heat level at the end, not red alert heat like the previous book, but pretty hot. But even without that component, this would have been a delight to read. Unlike other heroines in the previous two Enders series books, Gina is neither a damaged heroine nor given to self destruction. Being somewhat of a more mature character, she knows and has come to terms with who she is and it shows in her interactions with the hero. Even with the kidnapping set up and the awkward power dynamics that can bring between the kidnapper and the kidnappee, Gina never felt like the victim. There were really good statements made in this book about consent and it was in all, very sex positive. This novella retains the need for moral justification by the reader. The hero is clearly a bad guy but we love him because he’s gorgeous and cute when he’s with the heroine. That’s the nature of this kind of dark mafia-style romances. I think they’re for very specific audiences who are done with doing the work of that moral justification and overlooking the much more horrible side of organized crime which features a bit in this novel. If this was the only story we got from Gina and Osagie, I would have been happy, but I’m even more excited to know that this is only a prequel and that the author plans a full novel for them later. I can hardly wait. One of my absolute favourite series by an African authors Can’t wait to read more!
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