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Pretty Policeman
by Fifer Rose
The premise of this one was right up my alley, but something was missing in the execution for it to truly be great.
It’s about an undercover cop who pretends to be a prostitute in order to catch a serial killer, but instead he is found by a ridiculously rich man who wants to take care of him. At first, neither man knows the other’s true profession: one of them being a cop, while the other is a mafia don. And thus, they quickly fall for each other while having a ‘Pretty Woman’ type of situation going on. But what will happen when one of them finds out the truth about the other? Will everything fall apart?
The whole mistaken identity trope as well as the rich man wanting to take care of and spoil the poor man dynamic were things that enticed me, and I also genuinely thought Micah and Damon had great chemistry together. Still, I never really felt the depth of their relationship and I wish we could have gotten more scenes of them actually interacting with each other. I was also really missing Damon’s POV as I am certain the book would have been so much better if we had been able to properly see the devotion, adoration and protectiveness Damon had for Micah from up close.
Unfortunately, I also have to admit that this story dragged a little at times. It did not need to be as long as it was, and there was often focus on certain scenes that simply weren’t important.
However, the side-plot was quite interesting, even when it dragged, and I can’t say I ever felt particularly bored. My simple solution was just to skim a bit whenever the author decided to go on an uninteresting tangent, so all was still good.
I enjoyed reading this for sure, but I didn’t really feel very connected to it.
It’s about an undercover cop who pretends to be a prostitute in order to catch a serial killer, but instead he is found by a ridiculously rich man who wants to take care of him. At first, neither man knows the other’s true profession: one of them being a cop, while the other is a mafia don. And thus, they quickly fall for each other while having a ‘Pretty Woman’ type of situation going on. But what will happen when one of them finds out the truth about the other? Will everything fall apart?
The whole mistaken identity trope as well as the rich man wanting to take care of and spoil the poor man dynamic were things that enticed me, and I also genuinely thought Micah and Damon had great chemistry together. Still, I never really felt the depth of their relationship and I wish we could have gotten more scenes of them actually interacting with each other. I was also really missing Damon’s POV as I am certain the book would have been so much better if we had been able to properly see the devotion, adoration and protectiveness Damon had for Micah from up close.
Unfortunately, I also have to admit that this story dragged a little at times. It did not need to be as long as it was, and there was often focus on certain scenes that simply weren’t important.
However, the side-plot was quite interesting, even when it dragged, and I can’t say I ever felt particularly bored. My simple solution was just to skim a bit whenever the author decided to go on an uninteresting tangent, so all was still good.
I enjoyed reading this for sure, but I didn’t really feel very connected to it.