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A review by esotericelixir
Mr. CEO by Lauren Landish, Willow Winters
2.0
Mr. CEO delivers exactly what it promises in the blurb. Happy ever after, no cheating and no cliff-hangers. Whilst this book wasn't really for me - I knew what I was getting into and fully expected to read a smut book and a smut book is what I got.
Charlotte Rose and Logan met at an industry conference where they immediately fell into insta-lust. Logan is depicted like any other possessive 'alpha' male that I have read in similar stories and Charlotte Rose seemed to exist purely to fulfill plot points for Logan (and vice versa). His level of possessiveness was incredibly intense and quite alarming. He wanted to possess her and so he bought the company that she worked at so that he could make them move into his building and have her as his employee. There's nothing sexier than a power-imbalance that could make you fear for your job.
We don't really hear much about their past, present or future - apart from seeing each other, sleeping with each other and thinking about each other. It went from meeting to marriage in an extremely short amount of time and is 100% unrealistic, however it is fiction and it is what you expect when you read a book like this.
It's not the worst book I've read in the world and the writing actually wasn't too bad to follow. I would have appreciated more plot and more fleshed out storylines - although I'm not entirely certain where we could have gone with this story.
I also didn't particularly enjoy the surprise!cancer plot, though it was very obvious it was headed in that direction - I don't feel like it particularly added anything of value to the story.
It is what it is and it was read for a reading challenge. Glad it's over.
Charlotte Rose and Logan met at an industry conference where they immediately fell into insta-lust. Logan is depicted like any other possessive 'alpha' male that I have read in similar stories and Charlotte Rose seemed to exist purely to fulfill plot points for Logan (and vice versa). His level of possessiveness was incredibly intense and quite alarming. He wanted to possess her and so he bought the company that she worked at so that he could make them move into his building and have her as his employee. There's nothing sexier than a power-imbalance that could make you fear for your job.
We don't really hear much about their past, present or future - apart from seeing each other, sleeping with each other and thinking about each other. It went from meeting to marriage in an extremely short amount of time and is 100% unrealistic, however it is fiction and it is what you expect when you read a book like this.
It's not the worst book I've read in the world and the writing actually wasn't too bad to follow. I would have appreciated more plot and more fleshed out storylines - although I'm not entirely certain where we could have gone with this story.
I also didn't particularly enjoy the surprise!cancer plot, though it was very obvious it was headed in that direction - I don't feel like it particularly added anything of value to the story.
It is what it is and it was read for a reading challenge. Glad it's over.