Friday, May 1, 2020

New Release + Review: Cruel Billionaire by Luma Rose

Release Date: April 30


Unbeknownst to her, Isla Flores returned to town with more than just her suitcases in hand. She dragged a shitload of baggage from the past into my present.

Her reappearance spurs my father’s twisted mind into overdrive. He devises a plan for me to marry the woman I love to hate. I want to tell him to go to hell, but he knows my secrets. Our secrets.

The Classholes.

We never speak of what happened on our prom night, but Isla Flores’ arrival threatens to bring that night to the surface and reopen the cold case file.

Doing my father’s bidding will not only make me more like him, it will destroy Isla in the process.

Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.

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Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Isla Flores has finally returned home after leaving in shame after a being thoroughly humiliated. 

Garrin Stone is like his name, cold, hard and unforgiving. When he sees Isla back, he's furious. He treats her like the garbage he thinks she is ... until his father needs him to help get something that Isla is capable of giving him. 

While I liked the storyline, I found it hard to connect with at times. The plot is there, the characters have their own personalities, it had the plot twist, the heartache, etc., but there was just something missing that makes me connect with a story. 

There is also a mystery that connects these Classholes in a larger scale - the piece that i think will play out little by little over each book. I wish the author would have delved more into this part and teased all the characters a little more from the past - maybe from Garrin or Isla's POV. Maybe if the author would have given us more insight on that night, I would have been hooked a little more. Maybe she will with the next character.

I also wish there would have been angst between these two. I am a sucker for tension. With Isla having her insecurities and Garrin being a cold person, I felt they both gave in very quickly. On the other hand, the sexual chemistry between these two was hot AF! 

As you can see, I'm somewhat torn on this one. I want to see how the series plays out because the potential is there and the different tropes it will bring, it's just that the delivery needs to be tweaked.

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