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A review by elenajohansen
One is a Promise by Pam Godwin
1.0
DNF after the first chapter, which is far earlier than I usually give up on a book, but Trace isn't a love interest, he's a criminal. I don't care how powerful you are in your own corporate bizarro world, trespassing is still trespassing, and a crime. Danni should have called 911 on him, but it's hideously lampshaded in a paragraph about how this incredibly powerful businessmen couldn't possibly be there to rape or murder her.
...why not? I mean, if he's that powerful (which he repeatedly says he is, and Danni seems to believe) then why the hell couldn't he have barged in on Danni's date specifically to victimize her? His driver and the business associate who originally approached Danni know he's there, but if he's that powerful I'm sure they'd give him an alibi for Danni's murder when the body's finally found. Yeah, Danni's lackluster date saw him at her place, too, but why stop at one murder? Some random dude in the wrong place at the wrong time would be easy enough to clean up, right, if you're that powerful.
Trace is immediately characterized as a power-tripping sociopathic stalker who uses intimidation to get what he wants and isn't above bullying someone in their own home WHERE HE IS A CRIMINAL TRESPASSER.
And Danni spends the whole time annoyed by his attitude while simultaneously lusting after him with every fiber of her body.
ROMANTICIZING ABUSIVE BEHAVIORS IS DANGEROUS. STOP DOING IT.
...why not? I mean, if he's that powerful (which he repeatedly says he is, and Danni seems to believe) then why the hell couldn't he have barged in on Danni's date specifically to victimize her? His driver and the business associate who originally approached Danni know he's there, but if he's that powerful I'm sure they'd give him an alibi for Danni's murder when the body's finally found. Yeah, Danni's lackluster date saw him at her place, too, but why stop at one murder? Some random dude in the wrong place at the wrong time would be easy enough to clean up, right, if you're that powerful.
Trace is immediately characterized as a power-tripping sociopathic stalker who uses intimidation to get what he wants and isn't above bullying someone in their own home WHERE HE IS A CRIMINAL TRESPASSER.
And Danni spends the whole time annoyed by his attitude while simultaneously lusting after him with every fiber of her body.
ROMANTICIZING ABUSIVE BEHAVIORS IS DANGEROUS. STOP DOING IT.