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A review by oreiadae
The Professional by Kresley Cole
3.0
I'm famously fussy around writing and was pleasantly surprised when I could read this without rolling my eyes excessively. Of course, I have my issues with the book and some with the writing (as I said, I'm pretty finnicky), but overall, anytime I find a writer who's decent it's a happy day.
The book was quite... hot, although a little outside of my realm of expertise, since I tend to stick to contemporary romances more so than dark, or in this case I guess, mafia? romances. But it was pretty hot.
My highlight for this book was the heroine, I thought she was downright hilarious, which is truly, TRULY, a feat in the genre. The main love interest was less interesting, but the spice made up for that I guess.
The main lowlight, and I've noticed this in the other books in this series, is the... how to put it? overuse of excamation points and dialogue descriptors. It very much did not help me stay immersed in the story and actually kind of took me out of it. I guess in my head an exclamation point is just like, really loud and not sexy at all? Maybe it's on me...
Anyway, I will say I had serious fun with the heroine's inner thoughts, which I'm very happy about, but outside of that, the book is a very pleasant 3.5/5 on the Richter scale of hotness.
On a personal level, I think I'm discoversing that Russia just does not feel that sexy to me. Like everything else, I stay blaming that on actually being eastern-european and the whole 'eastern bloc' deal. Kinda dampens the hotness factor of the whole Russian thing for me. Although I am also italian and I do not feel the same about Italian-centered romances, so then what's that about? A question for my future therapist, I guess.
The book was quite... hot, although a little outside of my realm of expertise, since I tend to stick to contemporary romances more so than dark, or in this case I guess, mafia? romances. But it was pretty hot.
My highlight for this book was the heroine, I thought she was downright hilarious, which is truly, TRULY, a feat in the genre. The main love interest was less interesting, but the spice made up for that I guess.
The main lowlight, and I've noticed this in the other books in this series, is the... how to put it? overuse of excamation points and dialogue descriptors. It very much did not help me stay immersed in the story and actually kind of took me out of it. I guess in my head an exclamation point is just like, really loud and not sexy at all? Maybe it's on me...
Anyway, I will say I had serious fun with the heroine's inner thoughts, which I'm very happy about, but outside of that, the book is a very pleasant 3.5/5 on the Richter scale of hotness.
On a personal level, I think I'm discoversing that Russia just does not feel that sexy to me. Like everything else, I stay blaming that on actually being eastern-european and the whole 'eastern bloc' deal. Kinda dampens the hotness factor of the whole Russian thing for me. Although I am also italian and I do not feel the same about Italian-centered romances, so then what's that about? A question for my future therapist, I guess.