If you enjoyed the Ivy Lessons you will enjoy this series as
well.
Basic Summary: Very
typical 50 shades type romance books.
Handsome rich and famous director James Berkeley decides to fly to London
and sit in on auditions for Romeo and Juliet.
Isabella Green a struggling actress and script writer auditions for the
part of Lady Capulet, and sparks fly on their first meeting. He stalks her a little, seduces her a lot,
and of course they fall in love. Not to
mention he has some serious Dom tendencies and always needs to be in
control. With her fiery Spanish temper,
and her subconscious need to be a submissive it makes for an interesting
tale.
What I love About This Book:
I gotta say there isn't a lot I like about this book. I like the major plot line that he is a famous
director and her real passion being a script writer instead of an actress. That adds to the uniqueness of this story,
instead of him being a famous actor he is more behind the scenes type of man
and same goes for her as well. I really
like the sex scenes, they are more detailed some of the other poorly written
books and they are really able to give you a good visual of what’s going
on. James Berkeley is a compelling
character and his mystery is enough to make you want to read more.
Cons: That’s kind of all
I liked about this book the rest was just bad.
I don’t know if it’s the editing in a book when they make a US version
versus a British version and it gets lost in translation but the writing is
just so blah. I feel like a teenager
wrote this book not an adult at all.
Like most bad books there is no character development at all. I can’t stand when authors just tell you
right about a character’s personality traits, I don’t want to read a character
saying I am sensitive, or I have a bad temper, I want it play out in the
book. For me to get into a character and
really love them I need to interpret their personality through their actions
and really get behind what they are all about.
You skip so much when you have to read “me and my bad temper” rather
than showing me her bad temper. This
happens a lot throughout his book. I get
Isabelle is half Spanish and because of that apparently she has a temper, but I
don’t need it said straight out several times throughout the book. Same thing goes for James Berkeley, as a
reader I don’t need him saying over and over again I am broken, and therefore I
need to discipline women. That’s just so
stupid and once again his character and mystery are taken away because all the
actions that could have showed this are taken away. Maybe the author was afraid of it being too
long or something but this book would've been so much better if it was maybe
another 20-50 pages longer with more character development.
There are just
so many details that are skipped over in this book completely. The author goes into great detail about what
Isabella is wearing but then gives no details about the actual physical
features for the characters. For example
in one scene Isabella is going clubbing this is the description of her outfit “its
silver, with geometric slashes of lime an purple at the hips and shoulder
straps.” Yet then to describe the main
character James Berkeley all you get is this, “deep green eyes. Heavy eyebrows. Chiseled cheekbones. I settle on the space
above his sculpted nose…” This is after
Isabella has met him and had a conversation with him, she first describes what
he wearing so you have no clue what he looks like at all for a time and when
you do that’s all you get. There’s no
description how tall he is, if he has broad shoulders, if he is lean or bulky,
what shape his head is, if he is tanned or pale. There’s nothing!!! Somewhere in the book she
mentions he’s tall but how tall? Is
Isabella tall herself? Where does her
head come up to on his body? All these
little details that I know some people feel bog down a book are so important
when you are first reading something like this.
It’s one of those things you hate when they are there but miss when they
are take away and this is a perfect example where more details are needed. This book is just not evasive enough at all,
and even those story line is somewhat compelling I have no urge to continue on
to the second book. I might when I run
out of other things to read if I’m in the mood to read another romance, but
that’s it. The cliff hanger at the end
is supposed to be suspenseful but it’s not at all.
Overall: If you want to
read a book like 50 Shades, with less detail then go for it! Like I said the
sex scenes are good and if the characters were more developed I could really
get into it but to me it’s okay if you just skip right over this one.
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