A date I want to forget

This post is one of the rare books I did not like. Of course, beware could have Spoiler Alerts for anyone who has not read the book.

This is not your traditional romance wrapped up in a nice box and tied with a HEA pretty bow. Experience action, sex, wit, romance, mystery, mayhem, friends, family, flashbacks, fantasies, much laughter, and a cliffhanger all in one roller-coaster ride!

Smart and sexy bookstore owner Anabel Axelrod is happily satisfied with the routine of her life. She enjoys her work, the occasional company of good friends and family, and casual dates with men that are willing to follow her ironclad rules on dating. Not too tall, deliciously dark, and definitely not handsome, the mysterious Luke Drake is a new man in town, but she saw him briefly in her bookstore months ago. 

It soon becomes apparent Luke has set his sights on Anabel, but he is no follower of rules and control is his middle name. Falling crazy in lust and sharing her darkest desires with an experienced man like Luke was definitely not in Anabel’s plans. She loves being single and will allow no man to control her, but Luke has convincing ideas of his own. But Anabel’s intense desire for Luke Drake is not her only concern. The wife of a friend has gone missing, an employee at her store is attacked, and the man who broke her heart years ago returns to town. Anabel’s orderly life dissolves into chaos. Will the feisty Anabel follow her own rules to stay single, or will she understand that life is not simple and a certain exciting complication may be worth the risk, even if it kills her?

For like the first two-thirds of this book I was bored. I thought this book would be good about a single woman owning a bookstore and the description saying it is not a typical romance with a pretty HEA bow at the end and it is left on a Cliffhanger. This book is so boring the main character Anabel rambles on and on about nothing that excites me expect her bf, Luke. Her friend Anna is no better I've never been drunk or around drunk people so I don't know how they can think everything is funny and to keep getting drinks from strangers and not having food in stomach just never made sense to me.

I keep just skimming over parts that don't interest me. Now about Annabel's sexual fantasy and how the writer presented was awful I’m reading along and some supposed strangers break into her apt to rape her they wrestle and fight she screams tries to run away and acts very scared all that happens just for us to find out it's her bf Luke and she ask for it that way. I have no room to judge what people find a turn on, but come on pretending to get rape that nothing to joke about. So I hope this book gets less boring as I continue on.

I do love the title of chapters having a particular song with it and a date and time, but if you going to quote a song at least use the original singer such Son of a Preacher Man. Now I have nothing against this Sarah Conner since I don't know her but she, not the original artist.  Around Chapter nine the book got slightly less boring and annoying I enjoyed reading how Anabel killed that guy butt who harassed her employee at her store. Then how the mystery of her friend's missing wife turned out. Also, how the man stalking her waited for her in the attic and attacked her and how that ended up and who came to her rescue. I did not like how here ex took advantage of her and the display at the bar was a total dick move. 

I like the mystery of Luke not knowing what he does for a living and founding out he went to law school. I really liked and hated the cliffhanger of Anabel reading the note Luke giving her for his fantasy turn. All in all this book was mediocre and felt like and I kept waiting for the good parts glancing and flipping past all the boring bits.