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Look What Santa Brought (2007)

by Annmarie McKenna(Favorite Author)

3.43 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Samhain Publishing, Ltd.

series

Blackmailed

review 1: This book was not at all what I expected. I was looking forward to a cute (occasionally rated R) Christmas romance, but what I got was a crude story that just so happened to take place at Christmastime. I was immediately turned off by the constant and mostly totally unnecessary use of bad language.The reader easily comes to understand that Tara and Scott are attracted to each other, but that was all. As characters, they were underdeveloped and uninteresting, and we never got to know either of them, or any of the secondary characters for that matter, at all. Tara and Scott's relationship was even more poorly developed than the characters themselves (which really didn't seem possible). Tara made Scott hard. Scott made Tara wet. I feel icky writing that. The end. It ... moreseemed entirely based on lust and physical attraction, but since Scott was blind, this really didn't jive for me. Especially since he didn't even "see" her (with his hands) until about midway through the book. After that, Scott would do things that seemed totally unnatural for a blind man. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure blind people don't roll their eyes. There was also regularly background information that was quickly thrown in then never spoken of again. It was confusing and annoying. There was a whole story behind Scott and Brianna's mother that I wanted to know more about, but we only got a brief glimpse of it, never actually coming to understand what the author was talking about. Two children showed up out of nowhere. Who were they?The best thing I can say about this book is that it was short and quickly over. It was also free on my kindle. So I thank the author and give her two stars just for that. Now I'm feeling like maybe I was too harsh.
review 2: This would have been 4 stars except the last chapter seemed to be missing from my Kindle version. A very quick, cute, fun read otherwise. I think this had been part of an anthology previously because it is a short story. Standard Annmarie McKenna fare, entertaining, not heavy on believability but making up for that in its emphasis on sex scenes. It is much more grounded in reality than Blackmailed, which has many of the same characters now ten years later. Really, if Look What Santa Brought hadn't ended so abruptly with barely a resolution and no peek into the happy ever after(like a wonderful Christmas morning together), I'd have no complaints. less

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