I didn't think it was humanly possible for me to not love a Rosalind James romance novel. I think at one point I checked the book jacket to make sure that I had downloaded the correct book and had not made a massive mistake. This book was just not good at all.

I loved/liked most of the Escape to New Zealand series though I did have issues with two of the books. This one from beginning to end didn't make a lot of sense, there was no chemistry between the hero/heroine and, even after it comes out that what is going on could cause the hero to lose his position, the heroine keeps doing it!

I was over everyone by the time we got to the end of the book.

The hero of the book, Will Tawera, is on vacation in Las Vegas visiting one of his friends. Will's friend has an opportunity to model for the cover of some erotic books and goes to the shoot. Instead of Will's friend getting picked, Will is instead chosen as the hero for the covers and though he knows that if it gets back to New Zealand he could be in very hot water for disgracing this jersey since he is a member of the All Blacks (New Zealand rugby team). It makes absolutely no sense during the story that Will goes along with this except he finds himself attracted to the photographer's assistant Faith Goodwin. We have a really long explanation that the shots are going to be used for a website where people can read erotica and submit their own stories in order to win a huge cash prize. Faith starts to secretly write her own story for the site and that is the catalyst that causes it to come out that Will modeled for the covers. Instead of Will having any sort of sense and explaining what he was doing, he instead decides to lie that he did this for his girlfriend (Faith) and begs Faith to come to New Zealand and lie about their relationship to his family and friends.

I seriously lost several brain cells while reading this book. And yes I did go get some wine. I have no shame that I needed two glasses to get through this book.

Will and Faith have absolutely no chemistry at all. Every scene was supposedly them dealing with sexual tension and I just was not feeling/seeing it at all.

Will and his family had huge problems and I wish that we had time to focus more on them since they were tons more interesting than Faith or Will. Faith irked me from beginning to end in this book. She starts to secretly write a romance novel

We had some reappearance of previous characters in this book and honestly all that did was make me wish that I was re-reading those books and not this one.

The writing was choppy and not very good in this book. I think because we also had Faith's writing (she apparently was writing a romance book and imagining Will as the hero) interspersed in places and it made everything slow down. I really with that had been taken out of the final book because these little asides to her daydreaming/writing was just not great. The flow wasn't great and believe me when you get to the end things are kind of hand waved away though through the whole book we are told over and over again how what has happened is a very big deal. Apparently it is not a big deal once you are in love with each other. ( )