Review: Extravagance by Shawn Bailey

Posted July 12, 2015 by Shannon in Reviews / 0 Comments

Review:  Extravagance by Shawn BaileyExtravagance by Shawn Bailey
Published by Smashwords Edition Publication Date: June 24th 2015
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three-half-stars

Garner Saunderland leave the tiny town of Monroe, Louisiana for a better education and a chance to make enough money to help put his twin brothers Richard and Randall through college. After graduating, he applies for a job at Rousseau International, a corporate real estate company and ends up getting hired as a personal assistant to the company’s CEO, Brice Rousseau. Brice turns out to be not only handsome and down to earth, but also interested in dating Garner. Garner doesn’t think that he is worthy to be at the man’s side since he comes from a poor family of farmers, but Brice’s family and friends go out of their way to prove him wrong. Brice Rousseau on the other hand doesn’t care a thing about where Garner came from, only that he wants him in his future. It is love at first sight for him and he isn’t going to give up until Garner realizes that they are meant to be together.

I wanted to love this book.  It had some of my favorite things…MM romance, a billionaire, and a young man who wants to succeed on his own and not feel like he’s been bought.  However, there was just something…off…about it.  Not bad, just off.  There was insta love, and I don’t usually mind that, and there WAS wooing (which I love), but maybe it was because this was a relatively short story that it felt kind of rushed.

I liked the main characters very much.  Brice, the billionaire CEO of a real estate company, was very sexy in an Alpha sort of way.  Garner, hired as his personal assistant, is from a small town in Louisiana, but he’s not portrayed as someone who just emerged from the bayou.  He’s educated and very qualified for the position.  As I said, it was insta love for Brice.  Literally.  There was a bit of a misunderstanding in his office that leads to his powerful feelings.

In short order, Garner is rather like Cinderella, going to a charity party as Brice’s date.  It’s there that we meet some of the background characters.  They’re all…ok.  At first, I got them kind of mixed up because they’re are quite a few of them.  They’re all nice to Garner, and that’s great.

Basically, the only conflict that goes on is from Garner.  He doesn’t want to appear to be getting the world handed to him because he’s sleeping with the boss. And really…the world IS being handed to him.  They have great sex, but sometimes it feels like it’s picked up in the middle of a scene.  They’ve already started making love, and the details begin then instead of the beginning.  It jostled me a bit.  Still, I can’t complain about it.  What I did get was HOT.  Shawn Bailey is VERY talented with sex scenes.

Please don’t get me wrong.  I LIKED this book.  I really did.  I think it would have been so much better if it had been written as a full length novel.  That way, we could get to know what makes the guys tick, learn more about their families, and be able to watch them fall in love a little more slowly. I just discovered that I have another Shawn Bailey book in my TBR pile.  I’m going to start reading it ASAP.  I’m also planning on reading more of her writing.  Some of the titles are very intriguing.

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