I found this on my kindle the other day and
thought I’d give it a bash. I think it was downloaded as a book of the day from
onlinebookclub as it’s not normally the type of book I’d read at all. In fact,
the name came up as Fix – if I’d seen the rest of the title, I might not have
read it.
So here we have Patrick Harrington, the
head honcho in the bank and who thinks he is the gift that keeps on giving. His
aim is solely hedonistic – stay rich by any means possible, and use women to
make him feel good. Alexandra Fisher works in the bank and is just his type.
She is struggling with a relationship going nowhere and has always admired
Patrick from afar. When Patrick decides she is his next conquest he pulls out
all the stops to get her to succumb. Soon Alexandra is caught up in a game that
she thinks is real and is now affecting her work and sanity. And Patrick, well
Patrick is just fitting this new conquest in among his current daily dose of self-indulgence.
So it’s Fifty Shades except Alexandra
doesn’t have a backbone and Christian had more of a heart than Patrick does. I
guess it’s a testament to the writing when you despise a character as much as I
hated Patrick but then again, I was so annoyed at each woman that felt they
needed validation by succumbing to him. Not too many characters to choose from
to like then! You can see where the story is heading (think trainwreck) and yet
some of the characters still make the most absurd decisions. At least the
editing was good, with minimal grammar and punctuation errors.
There are scenes of a sexual nature and
swearing, as well as emotional abuse, so that’s a skip for anyone disturbed
when reading that sort of thing.
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