Fleeing an abusive relationship normally doesn’t lead to a contract.
After being burned by an ex Nicholas doesn’t trust easily. However, his refusal to have a serious girlfriend threatens everything he has spent the last five years working to accomplish. Somehow, instability in his love life has convinced the public that he can’t manage a multi-billion dollar investment firm. If he doesn’t change things quickly, he’ll risk losing everything he’s worked his entire life for.
To solve his problems, Nicholas hires Kenzie to be his pretend girlfriend. With the terms of their contract firmly in place, Kenzie is confident this arrangement will allow her to ditch at least one of the deadbeat jobs she’s endured to keep from returning to the horrors she left behind.
Keeping their arrangement completely professional slowly becomes complicated as attraction rises to the surface. Both of their futures are riding on this arrangement working and neither can afford to lose the other.
Title: On His Terms
Series: The Arrangement #1
Author: Madison Quinn
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: September 9, 2018
Publisher: self
My Rating: 3.5 stars
I’m going to be brief about On His Terms, mainly because I’ve just shut the Kindle on a cliffhanger… I dislike cliffhangers so very much. You can take a thread and weave it through every single story in a series, for me that is how you grab my attention to continue, not hold the ending hostage. But… that’s my style of reading and not everyone else’s. That’s not said to be mean, simply a fact for me.
I gave On His Terms a 3.5 stars rating on my blog, for the outside spots where I post reviews I’ll round that up to a 4 star – for there are compelling, interesting parts to this romance I simply had to get to almost a quarter of the book before I found those parts through all of the words involved. I am not about to tell an author how to write for I certainly do not have this talent.. yet, there is such a overpowering amount of words to this story, especially the beginning that, for me, if they had been trimmed down a bit I might have gotten involved with this couple far earlier in their story.
Parts of this story are told through flashbacks and since this romance does deal with Kenzie’s past which involves physical abuse, there is one brief moment that might be a trigger. Overall, this is an interesting story, one of growth and dealing with the past. I frankly don’t know if I’ll continue the series.
*I received an e-ARC of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley. That does not change what I think of this story. It is my choice to leave a review giving my personal opinion about this book.*
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