Added to that, when Penny and James are questioned by a new detective who is taking over their case and the detective point blank says he is missing key information when another officer was supposed to fill him in AND NOT A SINGLE PERSON IN THE ROOM THINKS THIS IS SUSPICIOUS?Īnd then we have the fact that EVERY SINGLE DOCTOR AND NURSE NOT BEING PAID OFF TURNS A BLIND EYE TO EVERYTHING GOING ON. I mean come on now - I'm expected to believe that one woman was so evil and diabolical that she not only enlisted the help of a former enemy of James, but a police officer, a member of his security team, a lawyer (to formulate fake paperwork), a nurse, AND James' own mother and absolutely NO ONE figures it out sooner? Come the heck on now! Sure one or two things might have slipped through the cracks, but not all of this. I liked how the author tried to add substance to this novel through the use of James' ex-wife Isabella, however her villainy was just so over the top bad that I couldn't take her seriously either. It's quite easy to see why his ex-wife (and James himself) repeatedly says it isn't love they share but he's addicted to her/sex.

Once again we are treated to the angsty 'love' between James and Penny - although honestly aside from some mediocre sex (that is meant to be really hot, but never gets there) there is nothing between these two.

Honestly over the course of not just this book, but the other three I wish I had kept track of just how many times I read that James 'lowered both his eyebrows (apparently he spends a lot of times with them raised), or how many times during sex Penny felt 'the familiar warmth' of his semen, 'spread up into her stomach'. How many times can one author repeat the same useless drivel at a reader? Apparently in the case of this author, A LOT.

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