whimsicalworlds 's review for:

Untouchable by Sam Mariano

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The beginning is pretty appalling, what Carter does to Zoey (I kept forgetting her name), but it all kinda mellows out from there. The first third is the most entertaining, then it just levels out and there's a bit of melodrama. Mostly the main character can't trust him and he mostly is straight honest. I was expecting something more shocking or unconventional, but this was pretty oaint-by-the-numbers. Rich pushy asshole H insists on having the h by any means, dirty or not. There's some push and pull them they realize their feelings and there are a few road bumps on the way to HEA. I think Zoey was logical at the start, then her brain just fell off the cliff and she started just lusting for Carter. She basically had a brain transplant to make what he does seem ok. Carter does give initial red flags but then he really becomes vanilla and boring. Rich, paving your way through life, possessive. He'll do sketchy things but it's just window dressing to make him seem edgy. The h is always poor in these stories too, all the better for the obscenely rich H to first blackmail and force her, then to help her out. There's also a weird underlying message that being with Zoey fixed Carter's issues.