| Title | : | The Billionaire's Secretary |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781311751201 |
| Format Type | : | ebook |
| Number of Pages | : | - |
| Publication | : | First published December 4, 2014 |
A quadriplegic CEO in need of a wife and child...
Their worlds are miles apart, yet in this moment they need each other.
Chloe’s life is unraveling fast. Her grand plans to live the starving artist’s life are brought up short when she gets a positive pregnancy test. Suddenly she’s got to find real employment and figure out a new plan.
Erik is on the verge of losing the company that he’s poured his life into. Despite an attack that nearly killed him and left him paralyzed from the shoulders down, he’s kept up with his work. But an archaic stipulation in his father’s will might cost him everything he wants.
When Chloe confesses her real reason for needing a job, Erik begins to suspect that they might be able to help each other out.
But as they build a fictional relationship, are their feelings just for show or turning into something more?
The Billionaire's Secretary Reviews
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The beginning of this story was engaging but it just didn't live up to its potential. Chloe is down on her luck, pregnant and not sure what to do. Through a temp agency she takes a job as a secretary to the head of a major company. An attack left Erik a quadriplegic but he runs the company expertly. Despite some initial awkwardness, Chloe and Erik fall into sync and Chloe finds she has the best job she's ever had, despite the worry about her pregnancy.
The story has some eye rolling over the top moments. The first one is Erik and and his brother Ed's father stated in his will that the son who marries and has a kid gets the company. Really? How is that enforceable these days? Anyway Erik shares his problem with Chloe as Ed has married in Vegas and is undoubtedly trying for the baby. The solution is obvious but it takes several frustrating chapters before they figure it out. But they do and the engagement is struck.
Overall I liked Chloe. She's dense as a rock sometimes but for the most part she's real. Her worries are real and when contemplating marrying Erik the author doesn't insult us by making the fact he's a billionaire unimportant. Chloe has no money and she understandably ponders how much easier her life would be if she had access to more. Chloe is very sweet, not sickling sweet, just a kind person who doesn't always articulate well but is braver than she lets on.
Erik is gruff and short in the beginning but relaxes and warms up as he and Chloe connect and I'm pretty sure he has a core as soft as marshmallow : )
Our second over the top moment is with the evil brother Ed. There were times I envisioned him in black with hat and mustache laughing a deep maniacal laugh as he tells all his evil plot but gets foiled in the end. Ed's plan doesn't work as planed but the sequence was rather silly. Though I'm thrilled Chloe did not go down the TSTL road.
Where the story loses out on is its length. There wasn't enough time to justify what the characters did. As a result the story badly needed an epilogue. The relationship moved so fast we needed to see months, or years, down the line that everything was still okay. As it was, it just stopped, like hitting a brick wall, and left me very unsatisfied.
Not a bad book, Madison does write the disabled aspect wonderfully without getting clinical. The story just needed to be more. -
It's a short story, that leads to the couple’s marriage, but the plot is banal and the dialogues between Erik and Chloe do not make it interesting, on the contrary, it becomes embarrassing at times, due to its frivolity. Nor it was sexually attractive enough to hold my attention and make up for the lack of important dialogues. Anyway... I've read better.
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I feel like this a good start but it needs to be home back through and depth added. It's just not quite good enough.
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This novel was well structured. The pace was well set for the two characters to fall in love. I just feel the ending was a bit too sudden. And Im big on my endings.
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