Don't tell my boss but I got very little done today. In a moment of boredom I started reading and couldn't stop. Holy crap! The situation is really bizarre but I loved the story. First you will keep wondering what he looks like then you will wonder who he is and why he's really doing it. What a great ride it is though. This was my first book by Jasinda Wilder but it won't be my last. Buy this and read it right away.

The only thing missing was an epilogue. The ending was a little rushed and left me wondering.Although the extra scene at the end did help somewhat, maybe a second book would do it. It just felt like their story was just beginning when the book ended. ( )

Alpha
Alpha, Book 1

I Picked Up This Book Because: My random spinner chose a book on Kobo and this is the only one I have.

Media Type: eBook
Source: Kobo
Dates Read: 2/18/22 - 3/12/22
Stars: 3

The Characters:

Kyrie St. Clair:
Valentine Roth:


The Story:

I have mixed feelings about this one. Overall I have an impression of it just being okay.

Writing: Fine. I like this author and I like the way she writes but I can’t say the story had me hooked but I did stick around so maybe it did?
Forward Motion: It was okay. A lot happened in a few days but there was also a lot of reflecting and retelling, especially at the end, and I could have done without that.
Overall Interest: Like I said I wasn’t hooded, but curious enough to see where it all went.
Length of Reading Time: It took me almost a month to complete which feels like a long time but is becoming more and more common for me when reading words on a page.
Re-read-ability: No.

The Random Thoughts:

Challenges:

A to Z Reading Challenge 2022 - A
Goodreads Book Bingo 2022 - G3 - A book with more than 400 pages ( )

Stayed up all night to finish -- can't remember the last time i found a book that kept me so involved that i willingly gave up sleep so i could ind out what happened next! ( )

I have not read books from this author before and I was happily surprised! This book touched me. The sex scenes were hot, don't get me wrong. I love the emotion that this story evoked. It was heart wrenching. I cannot wait to read more of this series.

Synopsis:


The first time it happened, it seemed like an impossible miracle. Bills were piling up, adding up to more money than I could ever make. Mom's hospital bills. My baby brother's tuition. My tuition. Rent. Electricity. All of it on my shoulders. And I had just lost my job. There was no hope, no money in my account, no work to be found. And then, just when I thought all hope was lost, I found an envelope in the mail. No return address. My name on the front, my address. Inside was a check, made out to me, in the amount of ten thousand dollars. Enough to pay the bills and leave me some left over to live on until I found a job. Enough to let me focus on classes. There was no name on the check, just "VRI Inc.," and a post office box address for somewhere in the city. No hint of identity or reason for the check or anything. No mention of repayment, interest, nothing…except a single word, on the notes line: "You." Just those three letters.

If you receive a mysterious check, for enough money to erase all your worries, would you cash it?

I did.

The next month, I received another check, again from VRI Incorporated. It too contained a single word: "belong."

A third check, the next month. This time, two words. Four letters. "To me."

The checks kept coming. The notes stopped. Ten thousand dollars, every month. A girl gets used to that, real quick. It let me pay the bills without going into debt. Let me keep my baby brother in school and Mom's hospice care paid for. How do you turn down what seems like free money, when you're desperate? You don't. I didn't.

And then, after a year, there was a knock on my door. A sleek black limousine sat on the curb in front of my house. A driver stood in front of me, and he spoke six words: "It's time to pay your debt."

Would you have gotten in?

I did.

It turns out $120,000 doesn't come free.
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I am not sure what I expected with this book, but it wasn’t what I got!
Let me start with the first part of the book. The build-up to Kyrie being “collected” for her debt is pretty good. It gets you wondering. Your interest has been piqued. Once she is taken, the book turns a little.
Mr. Roth is a private man. He doesn’t do public appearances. He is a man of many “talents”. His empire has built on legal and not-so-legal ventures over the years. He has a connection to Kyrie that he is not ready for her to know. The idea of blind-folding her is a bit extreme, but fits his personality.
Kyrie has to earn getting the blindfold off. Both parties need to be able to trust one another before this happens. I expected her to have the blindfold on for much longer than she did. Then again, it would have made the book drag.
Once Mr. Roth lets the secret out about how he and Kyrie are connected, she does what anyone would do… she flees. I was actually expecting the secret to be held for much longer than it had. I still think it should have. I almost wanted her to find out herself.
I am not going to discuss what happens after Kyrie flees from Mr. Roth; that would be giving too much away.
If you like hot, steamy sex and lots of it, this is the book for you. It is not lacking in this department at all!
Overall, even though I expected things to play out differently than they did, this book is so well-written, one cannot help but to like it, if not love it! The main reason for 4-stars instead of 5-stars is because of the sex. Well, not the sex itself, but the amount of sex. I wanted to see a little more of a mental connection than just the sexual connection between these two characters.
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