This was waaaaaay too cringy for me and it's hard to fathom why so many readers enjoyed this. Everything was too instant and the relationship between Savage and Candace was a joke. Maybe it was just me but I didn't see any purpose continuing and it became more apparent as I read on that this just wasn't my cup of tea.

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3.75 stars

I had high hopes for this book. It is the first of a trilogy. While there were aspects of the book that I did like, there were far more that I struggled with. The first being that I struggled with the idea that ten years had passed but the hero was still expecting the heroine to be pining away for him. I realize that this was just an element of the story but I struggled with the plausibility of the story.

I didn't struggle with the actual characterizations as some other readers did. Even though Savage was over-the-top and Candace was not as strong as a lot of heroines, I did like them together. I would have liked the story more if the above-mentioned timing was a little more plausible. The story moves at a very fast pace and at times the transitions between scenes jarred me out of the story. However, the story had suspense and tension which kept me reading which says something about this author and her ability to write a compelling story. ( )