This Man #1.
Bewertet mit 2 Sternen
This Man, book 1 of 3. This Man Series is about Jesse Ward, in his relentless pursuit and seduction of interior designer, Ava O’Shea.
It was frustrating, and had no story. I dont know why I went with the flow and got into the obviously exaggerated hype about this book. It has nothing other than a lot of sex. It didn't even have chemistry. It lacked everything, story and plot included. He wasn't even a tiny bit romantic. I only liked Sam and he isn't even a main character.
When Ava, an up-and-coming interior designer lands a job at The Manor in the country side, the last thing she expects is for the proprietor, or Lord of the Manor, to be drop dead gorgeous. He is beyond intense and she is so strongly affected by him that he just takes over her mind every time she sees him. She jumps to several conclusions about him and decided though that its all too much for her and walks away. But Jesse is not one to be deterred from getting what he wants. He relentlessly peruses her until finally the combination of his determination and her intense desire for him make her give in.
Jesse was just, too much, like too stalker-ish, too rude, too demanding, too extreme, too unreasonable, too neurotic, borderline immature. I just found Jesse too extreme overall.
Ava, I don’t even know where to begin with her. She’s a 26-year-old woman, but you’d never know that based on how she behaves. She's incredibly immature. She works as an interior designer, but she has got to be the most unprofessional person on the planet. She's such a doormat, too. She repeatedly tells Jesse "no", but she doesn't really put her foot down.
The book itself was really drawn out. All the petty conflicts through miscommunication and misunderstandings was overdone and got on my nerves. It became redundant after a while. He’d make some unreasonable demand, she’d fight him on it, then he would proceed to “fuck some sense into her." Rinse and repeat. Unfortunately, if you remove all the unnecessary, contrived drama, you're not left with much of a story.
I wanted to dump the book in the middle, but I kept going only for the end and even that didn't live up to anything good. I hope the 2nd book is better than this, at least it will revile stuff and have some kinda story. I still have hope for the 2nd book. That said I probably will torture myself with the second book.