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I only wish it were possible to give a book less than one star. The one where the lottery-winning woman hires a hitman to kill ... her. Plus he's a werewolf. With Mob connections. Perfectly, absolutely awful. I wish I could remember who recommended this dreck to me, so I could go scold them. The premise (the first sentence above) is the only interesting thing about it. The heroine has, as far as I can tell, no redeeming characteristics; she's a weepy, not-too-intelligent pushover. And the cliches are piled knee-deep. He's a werewolf! The two of them can feel one another's feelings! She's a Size 14 (the book actually specifies this size) and he finds this attractive, so you, the reader, are also attractive! Her family ... think of Eleanor's family in "The Haunting" and then imagine bumping everything up until it's utterly unrealistically over-the-top -- the mother is captured on film breaking her own hip and muttering 'Let's see her leave me behind now.' Oh, and in the last chapter (I was skimming by then, mostly to see just how shameless they would be), he's brought into some great world of shapeshifters (introducing many sequels, no doubt); she fakes her own death and sees how her family is faithless to the last; I think he may infect her with werewolfism; and he surprises her with a marriage certificate in the box with the papers for her new identity. The first sex scene is explicit but not sexy (and apparently women in this universe don't have clits); the rest sort of fade to black with a little purple emotion. No redeeming features whatsoever.

2022-10-29 03:31