Published
on May 31st, 2019
328 pages
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Bad Boy
Billionaire Silvio tried to make things work with Jane, the gorgeous free
spirit he had a fling with. What started one night in the bathroom of the hottest
club in town turned into ten intense nights that nothing could compare to. But
Jane’s plans didn’t involve wasting time on games for a rich man’s amusement.
She might
write about billionaires, but she knows that fantasy is different from reality.
On the pages of her romance novels, pie in the sky affairs might exist, but
Silvio's past ensured that a happily-ever-after wasn’t on the table. He has
reporters hounding his every move and dissecting every girlfriend, and
constantly reminding the world of the Calendri’s past filled with abuse and
murder. Jane knew their relationship was doomed from the start, and resolved to
keep her distance. Except Silvio could never stop thinking about the woman who
stole his heart and held on tight. After he discovers someone watching her
every move, he realizes he’s got to get her back. At the very least, to protect
her.
Silvio will
give Jane the fantasy billionaire romance from one of her novels. Research,
he'll call it, with everything included, all the way down to the hot sex and
Happily Ever After. A happy ending he can only give her if he finds her stalker
first, before he becomes more than a frightening voice over the phone.
My
review
First, I
would like to thank the author. I had a great time reading this novel. I liked
the book 1, but I have more in common with Jane, so I have a soft spot for her.
She might make the wrong choice that put her life in danger, but you can see
she cares about her best friend and Silvio.
Just like
his brother, I did not like the protagonist at first, but I learned to accept
his flaws and discover more about his personality which is more than being a
playboy. I know billionaire are overused in romance and most of people won’t
like it because it’s not super realist, but if you want to escape from your
every day life, it’s the perfect novel for it.
The
intrigue is okay. The author surprised me with the antagonist, I did not saw it
coming, but it’s something I saw a lot in horror movies. I doubt I will read
that trope again and again, but it’s nice once a while. The end is predictable if you like romance,
but you will find a few surprises while you are reading. Sometimes, I was
wondering what was going to happens to Jane or her best friend. The writing is
catchy and you will want to know what happens next. Until now, it’s my favorite
series from this author.
Excerpts
She wasn’t
going to slump in her seat. Her mother’s voice in her ear told her again and
again how that was bad for her, so she wouldn’t do it, not even now when she
was fighting a nervous breakdown. (p.3)
Very few
people had ever looked at her like that, and no one with that same level of
intensity. Not that intensity or her attraction to him equaled a good, loving,
caring relationship, however. This situation wasn’t like one of her novels. He
was a billionaire, but he was real life, not a fantasy. (p.20)
Going out
with him had been like leaving one world and going to another, both physically
and emotionally. She’d leave her normal world of her small apartment and spare
cupboards and enter his lavish world of limos and expensive dining. (p.65)
Looking at the
section closest to her, she saw a whole shelf full of Nora Roberts and one just
for the classics: Romeo and Juliet, Jane Austen, the Brontë sister. She found
Janet Daily, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Johanna Lindsay, and all the others who made
up the lists of who’s-who in romance novel authors. She knew some of the titles
were older, from the eighties of early nineties, but even those were in mind
condition. Their dust covers were impeccable, and some of them had almost no
yellowing in their pages, as if they’d never put in the sun before. (p.74)
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