Well honestly this was only 53 pages and so it took me about 30 minutes or so to read. At 53 pages there were a lot of things left out.

Morgan Reed who lives in Philadelphia running her own bookstore is finally going on vacation. Deciding to go without her long-term boyfriend Jason, she flies off to a super secret island where no phones or allowed (I wish).

Seth Blake is a NFL quarterback for the Philadelphia Titans (yes this team is a fake team, they do not exist) and is on a secluded island with the rest of his team enjoying themselves after they won the Super Bowl. Seth is feeling bored though with the constant parade of hot women throwing themselves at him and just wants to find a woman who is beautiful as she is inside as well as out (I am sorry, at this point I did snicker a lot) and sees Morgan at the airport when she arrives and falls instantly in lust even though petite Morgan with her brown skin is not the usual type of woman he beds.

So here's the thing, I applaud the author for making this interracial romance not a big thing in her world, but come on. I really wish that it had been addressed at least once. Or someone say something about it and mention how hard it would be. That said, I did feel some chemistry between Morgan and Seth, not a lot, but enough that I could see why they would be curious about each other. I will say that Seth's stalking/alpha routine was a turn off in the first few pages and luckily that mess stopped so I could go back to liking the character.

I thought the writing was hit or miss depending on what was going on. Ms. Laurel didn't do a very good job of setting up the book. I mean at 6 percent is when I found out that Morgan lived in Philadelphia. I didn't figure out until almost 12 or maybe 15 percent that she had a stepmother and 3 brothers. The fact she had a boyfriend was a throwaway line. And it didn't make any sense since the boyfriend sounded like the most sexless person ever. I've said it before, it takes a lot of skill to make novellas or short stories work, and I thought this book was missing too many elements to make it really work.

The flow was all over the place at first, it got better towards the middle and end. We just kept missing scenes that were referred to later which I hate. Case in point, Morgan apparently falls asleep with Seth's arms around her after they eat some amazing food in her bookstore. I read about it pages later when Morgan was remembering it while staring at Seth.

The setting of the island and Philadelphia were pretty generic. No place really comes alive at all, but once again this is 53 page and not a lot of room for the author to work with there.

The ending was okay, I am on the fence about wanting to read more starring these two or not. ( )