Title:  Her Sworn Enemy
Series:  Men of the Zodiac #12
Author:  Theresa Meyers
Genre:  Contemporary Romance
Published:  December 7, 2015
Publisher:  Entangled / Indulgence
My Rating:  3 stars
Source:  NetGalley
Cover Description:

Money doesn’t matter when what you want is revenge.

Self-made millionaire and family black sheep Tucker McCormack has one goal—payback. He’s planning a hostile takeover of the McCormack empire, but his latest roadblock is too beautiful to resist…and she’s his brother’s ex.

Headstrong antiquities expert Belladonna Dupre has put every asset she has on the line to recover her family’s fortunes from a shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico, but she needs a dive salvage operator to make it happen. Enter Tucker McCormack. He’s smart, good with his hands, and sexy as hell in a dive suit, but he demands joint credit for the discovery as a condition to work with her.

Bella won’t be bullied into giving up what’s rightly hers. Tuck won’t take no for an answer. It’s a battle on the high seas, where sparks fly, attraction smolders, and anything can happen.

Read on for my thoughts on Her Sworn Enemy.  No true spoilers, promise.

Her Sworn Enemy wraps up the Men of the Zodiac series.  Overall I enjoyed this series, of course there were some stories that I liked better than others – that’s normal in any series.  Her Sworn Enemy was one that I liked.  I didn’t love it, certainty didn’t hate it.  But I was left with the something was missing feeling on this concluding story so yeah, I liked it.

Tuck’s over riding need for revenge was perhaps justified – but some of the things he did to Bella weren’t – in my opinion.  And unfortunately, once a character has crossed that imaginary  line of mine, it is difficult for me to see them in a better light.  I wish that weren’t true, but…

Bella is such a strong character and she’s been through and survived so much.  To see her repeatedly back down from Tucker was… disheartening for me.

Other aspects of the story were extremely entertaining.  The dive, the discoveries and even the passion between the main characters were good.  I simply wish I could have connected with them, even liked them enough to more than… like this story.

I’ve said it before and I stand by my belief that every single reader will take something totally different away from every story they read.  So much is individual in reading, it has to be because a story either touches you or it doesn’t.  When I say I liked a story I mean just that – it was a good story, one that I’m glad I read but not one that I’ll turn to again.  It was good for the time that I read it.  That’s not bad.  I didn’t connect with the characters – and that is on me, not the author.  I tend to take novels for what they are and how the author delivered them to me – it’s their story not mine to change around.

I believe there are many people who would love Her Sworn Enemy.  So please, make your own decision on this (or any book).  Take a risk and pick this one up and discover this story and these characters for yourself.  You may find the perfect gem of a story, and I hope you do, honestly.

*I received an e-ARC of Her Sworn Enemy from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. That does not change what I think of this novel.*

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