3 out of 5 stars.

This isn’t an easy rating for me, so I want to mention up front that I’m giving it based on the combination of both books together. Individually, I ranked them each a two and in truth I was being a bit lenient when I did that. I’ll explain more in a second, but first let’s discuss the basic premise.

So we have Gia who comes from an Italian family with very close ties, and Gideon, I mean Jax, who is a wealthy bachelor. His wealthy family has a background in politics, and they play the game well. Jax gets caught up in the middle of it. They had a relationship for five months two years ago, and Jax left her hanging. Then suddenly, he shows up again.

Don’t worry. I didn’t spoil anything, you can get all of that from the blurb. For me, that was the best part of this book. I’m not going to spend my time bashing the story, because that’s not the type of reviews I offer. As an author, I know how hurtful it is to have someone tear down your work. As a reader, I also know that no book can ever be written to please everyone.

A big problem for me was that this story was written in two parts. It never should have been. I couldn’t get into the first book at all, and only read the second because I bought the book that had them both together. Thus, the reason I’m doing this review as if the story is one book.

So in the first half, Gia and Jax have sex. A lot. That’s pretty much all that happens. No, seriously. That’s all that happens. Well that and the thing that’s supposed to be a big plot line. The second half is a bit more interesting, but it still managed to fall flat for me.

I loved Sylvia Day’s Crossfire series. This book felt like it was all of the parts that she cut from that story thrown together at random. I just couldn’t find anything that gripped me. The characters weren’t developed enough for me. If she would’ve spent a little more time on the characters and a little less time on the sex scenes it would’ve been a much better book in my opinion. The plot also seemed majorly off in this one. It jumped around a lot, and there wasn’t much of a resolution. The climaxes weren’t all that climatic for me either. Again, I’m not going to tear the book apart piece by piece.

It had a lot of potential. It just didn’t quite live up to that for me. Sylvia Day is an extremely talented writer, however, and I will continue to support her work. This one just didn’t cut it for me. ( )

Arriésgate… Nunca mezcles los negocios con el placer. Nunca metas la política en el dormitorio. En cierto modo, yo había hecho ambas cosas al aceptar a Jackson Rutledge como amante. No puedo decir que no estuviera advertida. Dos años después, Jax había regresado. Se había entrometido en un trato que me había costado mucho cerrar. Pero desde su marcha yo había aprendido una o dos cosas bajo la tutela de Lei Yeung, una de las empresarias más sagaces de Nueva York. Ya no era la chica ingenua que había conocido Jax. Él, en cambio, seguía siendo el mismo. A diferencia de la última vez, yo sabía exactamente a qué atenerme... y sabía lo adictivas que podían ser sus caricias. Jax estaba en su elemento en las altas esferas donde se mezclaban el glamour, el sexo y la riqueza. Pero esta vez yo conocía las reglas del juego. En el implacable mundo de los negocios imperaba una máxima por encima de todas: mantén cerca a tus enemigos, y a tus examantes, aún más cerca.

Part of Cosmos 'Red'Hot Reads' He walkked out of her life without a words two years before and she's still in love with him when he suddenly walks back in. She's a strong, intelligent woman with strong family to support her. He tries to keep his family away from her to 'protect her'. I like that she doesn't put up with his crap.
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Tempting, till the end. my first book of sylvia day, but not a last one. ( )

I enjoyed this book, though there were a few things about it that made me a little bit irritated (i.e. wish it were really that easy to just switch your life around, as Jax ended up doing). Still, that being said, I really enjoyed the relationship between Jax and Gia despite it being sort of messed up (although, I guess that was the best part, now that I think of it). ( )