Title:  The Birthday Deadline
Series:  Billionaire Brides
Author:  Ella Cari
Genre:  Contemporary Romance
Published:  June 11, 2015
Publisher:
My Rating:  3 stars
Source:  Borrowed, Kindle Unlimited
Cover Description:

Sebastian Fox was a billionaire before he even hit his twentieth birthday thanks to his ingenuity and intelligence. Now 29, he has to find a bride or his entire business will come crashing down.

Before he walked into my struggling flower shop that day, I’d seen his face a million times already. His gorgeous green eyes lit up billboards, magazine covers, and TV interviews.  The multi-billionaire had a proposition for me. He would help save my business, and in turn, I would help save his.  All that Sebastian needed was my hand in marriage.

Married for convenience, how will we even begin to bring our lives together? My husband and I knew nothing of each other before our wedding day, and now, we will be together forever.  Will he ever be more than just a man who kissed me at the altar?

Read on for my thoughts on The Birthday Deadline.  No true spoilers, promise.

The Birthday Deadline is a fun, short (very short 87 Kindle pages short) novella.  I enjoyed it for what it was… a short, fun romance.

The story had a strong, handsome billionaire in need of a wife, a lovely downtrodden woman who was struggling to keep her deceased parents’ flowershow open, a nasty, beautiful personal assistant, a cruel father and the secondary characters who were also mean, nasty and obnoxious in varying degrees.

I don’t usually do this in reviews, I will normally simply accept the story that was put in front of me via the author’s decision on what to tell me – yet, this one could have been more and that disappointed me.  Since it was told in the first person narrative, I didn’t get much of the thoughts of other characters, Deliah’s was the only voice I had to go by.  When I finished the story my reaction was, “Hmm, okay I liked it but where is the story that wasn’t told, I’d like to read that.”

As I said, normally I don’t set up a wishlist of what I would have liked to have in a story.  But there were enough scattered pearls here that I sincerely hope that one day the author takes this one and fleshes it out into a longer, more detailed story.  That I would love to read.  As it stands, The Birthday Deadline was a fun story, enjoyable for what it was – short and to the point.

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