Title: Curves Ahead
Author: Andi Jaxon
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Everyone knows appearances can be deceiving, and in my case, even I’ve been fooled.
The last thing I need is immature man-child, Alexander Bennet, trying to smile his way into my pants. I hate everything about him; his stupid smirk, his rumbling chuckle, and the way butterflies riot in my stomach when he aims them at me. Our sparring matches go from maddening to stimulating and suddenly my mind and body are at war.
Unfortunately for me, my life is nothing but lies. Twisted secrets keep throwing us together then pulling us apart as we try to unravel it.
Will the one person I want nothing to do with, be my salvation? Or are we doomed to tear each other apart?
*if you have triggers, please proceed with caution.*
Let's start off by saying this is a brand new author for us.
We really enjoyed the main characters as we instantly loved Kristen and Alex also Ben and Alister but, we really loved Alex's entire family too !
We thought the story was fun and made you laugh and it was also emotional and haunting as Kristen has nightmares that haunts her but, she can not make heads of tails of them.
The chemistry between this couple were super hot sometimes even fan worthy.
I really enjoyed the story because it had such a great cast of interesting characters that made you laugh and if I could base a review on just that it would be 5 stars but, I had issues with this story as well because I had so many unanswered questions and somethings just didn't make sense I guess you can say.
Spoiler alert -Don't read the next part if planning to read....
I realize this story is fiction but , situations in certain stories need to be plausible at least in my mind anyway and I hate the not knowing. For me this story could have been really great for me if the author shed light on some of the mystery surrounding this story.
Issue one- Kristen and her nightmares are connected in some way to a cop named Preston even if she has not idea how but, every time she is around this man she has panic attacks and the nightmares are back and memories start surfacing and memories flooding her mind even if she can't make sense of them.
( this happens time and time again throughout the entire story) So when Kristen ends up at her horrible parents house for dinner and ends up in her bed the next day in her own bed at her parents house feeling like she been run over by a mack truck and no memory its clear as day she was misused ,abused and possibly raped she calls Alex and he comes with another cop to investigate the situation and they end up collecting and evidence kit but, Kristen refuses to go to the hospital to do a rape kit because it will embarrass her family.(Mind you these are the parents that treat her like shit and this happened in there home) .This whole situations points to a rape yet, this character only thinks she wasn't raped? yet, all the evidence and the condition her body is in sure as heck points in that direction. I just can't imagine not wanting to know for sure .Wouldn't you want to know for sure if you were violated ? The last person you were around was Preston and you don't put two and two together or at least he is a suspect in your now appearance and that he possibly drugged you but, through this whole entire process his name was never mentioned and you have no recall even talking to the man yet, accept the explanation the your parents gave to the maid for your current situation and not question it ? In the next breath you learn from Alex that you were indeed in a room with Preston because you sent pictures to him yet have no memory of doing it yet, here again you don't put two and two together the nightmare,the panic attacks, how the man makes your skin crawl or even as an afterthought think he had something to do with your current situation ? Clearly he is suspect at least ? Mind boggling... Next what happens is Alex leaves with his cop friend leaving Kristen in the same house were she was just abused .Hello ? What's up with that ? The guy who is protective of his entire neighborhood including kids and adults alike yet,he leaves is girlfriend who has no memory of what happened to her but, evidence clearly states she was abused and you just leave her? Not only that Kristen isn't hysterical about this whole situation and is not wanting to get the hell out of there she wants a bath and is going back to bed and she will be fine because the maid is there. I am sorry just none of any of this makes sense. Omg ! Seriously! Hours later she is missing....
I am not going to say what happens next but, your probably thinking the same thing I am and what direction the story is going in.Let's just say its disturbing and sick and leads to yet another victim.
Towards the end of the story things start adding up and making sense are staring to come together and evidence is all pointing to a dirty cop who is a possible rapist and so much more. Kristen learns that the other victim is a very young girl who is possibly her sister and her life has been one great big lie.Later on we learn they are indeed siblings.We understand how they ended up together and what brought the little girl to be where she was and why but,Who were their parents or parent ? If they are sisters how do you explain this huge age gap ? What happened to the parent or parents and how did that little girl end up in the system or where yourself had come from ? After learning your parents are not your parents you have no thoughts of who your real parents are ? Why did you never question your parents association with Preston especially since the guy made your skin crawl every time you were in the same room with the man ? Clearly something was not right ? The man was clearly and low life and your parents high society snobs who are all about image and connections ? The questions could go on.
Spoiler ends...
From the moment we met Kristen she was and bright and beautiful and funny and she surrounded herself around friends who she loved whole-heartily loved and who her parents felt were beneath her but, she never cared what they thought.Kristen had this great big heart was kind and caring and was strong and determined women who was embracing her independence . So you can imagine for me even though she has some issues that needed to be dealt with I can't imagine Kristen taking any crap from her parents and putting up with it and how she handled the whole entire situation she found herself in and how she handled it. This is not the Kristen we got to know throughout the entire story so none of what happened next made any sense to us.
Alex on the other hand we loved him from the onset of the story .We found him to be funny,cocky,had a sense of humor,fan worthy and had the largest heart and one who was protective of those people big and small and spread goodness to an entire neighbor hood who loved him just as much and he in return.
Overall we really enjoyed the story and enjoyed the characters especially with the love hate friendship that Alex and Kristen had going on in the very beginning because they gave us tons of laughs. The plot itself was a good one overall because the outcome was surprising and had some twists and turns but, for my personal issues with the story it was a good story not a great one for us.
I would definitely read more from this author and would like to go back to read Ben's story as it is connected to this current story.And we have to say we really loved the ending as it was perfect ending to a dark and twisted tale.
3 stars form us
From Dyslexic kid with a love of Algebra to a published author, no one is more surprised to find me here, than I am. I love to write about tortured pasts and hot sex, a happily ever after that has to be worked for. My stories tend to be a little dark but with some comic relief, typically in the form of sarcasm.
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