All I Want… by Isabel Sharpe

Posted November 27, 2022 by lenoreo in Reviews / 0 Comments

Title: All I Want...
Author: Isabel Sharpe
Published by: Harlequin Blaze
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Format: ebook
Pages: 224
Genres: Contemporary, Holiday, Romance
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2022 Bookish Resolutions DTTH
Find it: Goodreads
My rating:

Blurb:
Krista Marlow wanted two things for Christmas--a sexy man and a relationship lasting longer than thirty days!

Well, she got the sexy man one night. A reservation mix-up meant she and Seth Wellington ended up sharing the same cozy cabin. Uh, make that sharing the same king-size bed. And since they were snowed in, they had to find lots of inventive ways to occupy their time....

Meeting Seth was like getting the best Christmas gift ever--one Krista never tired of unwrapping. But would the relationship survive New Year's once Seth's real identity was revealed?

Or was this one gift Krista needed to return before the thirty days were up?

My Review:

DNF @17% — Wow. We hadn’t even gotten to the start of what was listed as the blurb, and I’m already totally out. Neither character was that admirable in my opinion. I was almost out with Krista from her first blog post that starts the book. I’m not the kind of person that’s interested in that whole culture of mean honesty, calling other people down, that kind of thing. So I was already pretty out with her from the start.

Then we meet Seth, and well, there just wasn’t much there. I wasn’t interested either way, he seemed kind of generic.

THEN we get Lucy’s POV for a brief bit and she’s clearly suffering from depression, getting no support from her sister (who is our heroine), and in a pickle in her relationship. And the next time we get Krista’s POV, she’s basically encouraging her sister to cheat. Meanwhile Seth acted like an “idiot” going “undercover”, and I’m just done. Maybe it gets better, but I ain’t got time for that. I was looking for an “only one bed” trope book, and we were almost 20% in and it was barely a hint on the horizon, with neither character being the kind I connect with. Oh well, buh bye.