Review: Lovers at Heart

Synopsis

Handsome, wealthy resort owner Treat Braden is used to getting what he wants. When Max Armstrong walked into his life six months earlier, he saw right through the efficient and capable façade she wore like a shield, to the sweet, sensual woman who lay beneath. She sparked an unfamiliar desire in him for more than a one-night stand, leaving his heart reeling and his blood boiling.

 But one mistake caused her to turn away, and now, after six months of longing for the one woman he cannot have, he's going home to try to forget her all together.

Max Armstrong has a successful career, a comfortable lifestyle, and she's never needed a man to help her find her way--until Treat Braden caught her attention at a wedding in Nassau, causing a surge of emotions too reminiscent of the painful past she'd spent years trying to forget. Max will do anything to avoid reliving that pain--including forgoing her toe-curling, heart-pounding desire for Treat.


Review

This book proves one thing: Amazon reviews are nonsense. Why? Well, this book is crap, it's badly written, boring and tepid. I gave up half way through and skipped to the end. However, according to most Amazon reviews it is a captivating, well written read. It is neither of those things. The characters for example behave like teenagers, there's nothing sexy about a thirty seven year old man having a sulk. I was not captivated, I was very aggravated at how bad the write is. One thing I loved about Fifty Shades was that the author knew she was being ridiculous (or at least I hope she knew) and didn't take herself too seriously. This book takes itself way too seriously, there's no humor, the sex scenes are silly and the writing is beyond silly. The dialogue and interplay between the two characters reminded me of a bad lifetime film dragging on with no end in sight.   
Lover at Heart is undoubtedly a Mills and Boon, a cheesy, unrelenting romantic book and I usually have no issues with Mills and Boon, on the contrary I love Mills and Boon. However, this was just awful, so awful I had to stop reading in fear I would smash my Kindle to pieces.

How someone can write such tripe is beyond me. I'm kicking myself for believing Amazon reviewers. I'm now debating whether to give this author another read.