Emma Nichols

I really fluctuated on my thoughts about this book. I thought the writing was strong but there were just so many times when I was really bored which I feel like shouldn't happen in a mafia story. This book felt like it was way longer than 200 pages and it took me way longer to read than I was expecting because I just never felt like I got into the story. The relationship also just felt very underdeveloped and unbelievable. Even though no one declares their love until at least halfway through, Maria and Simone had only interacted like four times at that point so I was having a hard time actually feeling the emotion in the story. There just wasn't enough drama for my taste and if I'm reading a mafia boss story, I want there to be a good amount of plot and tension.… (meer)

The book is about a woman who goes on a cruise after a bad breakup. It is filled with erotic sex scenes, but all in the first person, and the descriptions are ok.

The reason I am only giving this book 2 stars is that the woman is not only shallow, she is inconsiderate and selfish in bed as well as out. She ditches her BFF from the start of the cruise for a man she met in the first hour of the cruise. She met him by coming on to him physically not knowing him from Adam - but twice in the book she disses men who do the same to her. She only picked him up to get rid of the first man who hit on her (which makes him, in her words, a douche) because she seems to be powerless to get rid of him by telling him she isn't interested.

The man and she agree no names and no relationship after this week of cruising - but at one point, she is flirting with other people to make him jealous. When he responds in kind she storms out and he (already whipped by the great sex, apparently) apologizes for his behavior (when she started it!)

She picks up a couple to swing with, without consulting her partner, and with no intention of letting the other man touch her. (she says, "too bad for her husband")

And then she decides she is in love with the man (and in the story, he also says he is in love with her)! Aargh. This woman needs therapy.… (meer)