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A review by ozettegirl
Asher Black by Parker S. Huntington
3.0
This book surprised me. It was on KU. And it’s ‘mafia’ so I was expecting the dark drama and angst- can be good.
The heroine is pretty real if a bit Mary Sue ish ( she just happens to speak French and charm the right people ) and I although I hate the ‘all the other women he brings around are stupid/vanish/etc’ thing even if another female character says it, the secretary in love with him plot line wasn’t overblown but actually realistic. Asher has good points and he’s alpha ish without the usual a-holeness that seems to have become too much the norm.
Why three stars? Well for all that I liked them both, for me there was NO steam. Not in the kisses or anything. I skipped the sex scene and almost put the book down after the first thing in the alley. They never revisited why he acted like that by the way. I was okay with them developing feelings after that- but it didn’t feel like they did.
I like ‘Lev’ by Belle Aurora for a ‘Mafia guy saves girl of sad background’ better and that had heat and tension. Or The Master by Kresley Cole . I wanted this to be up there with those but there was no tension for me still, readable and a good debut.
The heroine is pretty real if a bit Mary Sue ish ( she just happens to speak French and charm the right people ) and I although I hate the ‘all the other women he brings around are stupid/vanish/etc’ thing even if another female character says it, the secretary in love with him plot line wasn’t overblown but actually realistic. Asher has good points and he’s alpha ish without the usual a-holeness that seems to have become too much the norm.
Why three stars? Well for all that I liked them both, for me there was NO steam. Not in the kisses or anything. I skipped the sex scene and almost put the book down after the first thing in the alley. They never revisited why he acted like that by the way. I was okay with them developing feelings after that- but it didn’t feel like they did.
I like ‘Lev’ by Belle Aurora for a ‘Mafia guy saves girl of sad background’ better and that had heat and tension. Or The Master by Kresley Cole . I wanted this to be up there with those but there was no tension for me still, readable and a good debut.