Published by Montlake Romance Genres: Contemporary, Romance
Format: eARC
BLURB:
The Riviera means indulgence—if you’ve got money. For Sadie Reynolds, a down-on-her-luck student, the Riviera means dingy hostels and back streets. When a wrong turn puts her in jeopardy, the last thing she expects is to be saved by the most handsome stranger she’s ever locked eyes with. When she later wakes up in a luxury suite with a Mediterranean view, she’s in the tender care of her rescuer: Olivier Dumont, France’s most eligible bachelor, billionaire hotelier, and heir to the Dumont fashion fortune.
Olivier also owns his reputation for scandal. But Sadie is unlike any woman he’s ever met. Her humble persona and wild innocence promise real passion. He’s promising Sadie something too: anything she wants. From Bordeaux to Cannes to Paris, Sadie’s past in America is swept away and replaced with a fantasy too good to be true.
Pulled into Olivier’s orbit of wealth, glamour, and excess, Sadie discovers that the Dumont dynasty comes with a legacy of wicked secrets. And Olivier’s secrets may be the most damning of all…
CHRISTINA’S THREE STAR REVIEW:
Let me first start by mentioning that I have not read anything from this author prior to this book. So when I saw this pop up on Net Galley (and quite frankly, saw this cover), I thought it was the perfect opportunity for me to give it a go. Well…here I am a couple days post finishing the book and I’m still having problems putting my thoughts about it in to words…
Sadie is a college student who has saved up to tour Europe with her boyfriend. But as luck has it, they break up while on their trip, leaving her alone and without most of the finances to fund the rest of the trip. So she’s backpacking it, and making the best of a crappy situation. That is until she runs in to an unfortunate situation with a mugger. Thankfully someone came to her rescue…and he couldn’t have been more perfect.
Olivier has everything, a family fortune and good looks. At least that’s what everyone sees on the outside. On the inside, he’s living with a horrible mistake he made ten years ago and time is running out before he has to “pay up” on said mistake. So instead of dwelling on what’s about to happen, he throws himself in to owning and running hotels. But life throws him a curve ball when he helps a woman being mugged on the streets. Because his mistake just might put her in danger.
I think it’s easy to assume that the chemistry between Olivier and Sadie is off the charts, right? I mean, hellllllo, it’s a romance we’re reading. So I’m not even going to address that part of the story. Well, except for this part. Sadie is backpacking through Europe by herself after breaking up with a boyfriend and then finds herself in a hotel room with a handsome man who she then has sex with within a twenty-four hour period. Doesn’t sound too bad, right? LOL But I DID have an issue with the “mistake” and everything that transpired because of it. It just didn’t…”flow” well for me. It’s hard to explain without giving away the book. So I’ll just leave it at that.
I’m not gonna lie. This one was difficult for me to stay focused on. Probably because of the “mistake” issues I have. Not that it wasn’t written well, there were just a few parts that read slower than I’d like. All in all, good book to pick up and escape reality with.
P.S. – The cover doesn’t indicate that this is a series, nor did the description in Net Galley. So when I was finished with the book and was left with unresolved issues, it was a pleasant surprise to see that this was indeed a series, listed on Goodreads.
BOOK INFORMATION:
Purchase link to all retail outlets: https://amzn.to/2JZt3C3
Discretion: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43806074
The Dumonts: https://www.goodreads.com/series/257075-the-dumonts
AUTHOR INFORMATION:
Karina Halle is a former travel writer and music journalist and The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author of The Pact, Love, in English, The Artists Trilogy, Dirty Angels and over 20 other wild and romantic reads. She lives on an island off the coast of British Columbia with her husband and her rescue pup, where she drinks a lot of wine, hikes a lot of trails and devours a lot of books.
Halle is represented by the Waxman Leavell Agency and is both self-published and published by Simon & Schuster and Hachette in North America and in the UK.
Website: https://authorkarinahalle.com/
Instagram: @authorHalle
Twitter: @MetalBlonde
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