Vaughn’s Xena (Dirty Rockhard Billionaire Book 1) by M.I. Rosegold – Review by Micalah Weatherholtz
Vaughn’s Xena by M.I. Rosegold
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
After reading Vaughns Xena by M. I. Rosegold I am incredibly torn on how to rate this book. It’s not that I didn’t like the book because I did but there were a few things that made the story not as enjoyable or pulled me out of the story personally. This book was reminiscent of 50 shades of Gray with the sexy, tortured man, and his controlling tendencies. It was one of the steamiest, spicy books I’ve read in quite sometime but it was also repetitive. It seemed that the first three quarters of the book and there wasn’t much of a storyline. It was basically the same phrasing/wording reworded or in a different order to make the steamy scenes occur more often which definitely drew me away from wanting to read them. I liked watching them grow and learn each other but after awhile it was like really again, your mine, etc. the second thing that bothered me a little was some of the wording that was used seemed a bit immature. For example Vaughn was this strong, possessive, dominating male but right in the middle of a dominating scene he uttered words like gosh, which didn’t seem to fit the way the author wanted to portray him. The relationship Vaughn had with his sister seemed a bit inappropriate and eeked me out a bit, which was maybe the authors point, not from his end so much as from her. She repeatedly refers to his possessive nature as a significant other might rather than a sister and the ending solidified that for me. The last quarter of the book utterly broke my heart but it also definitely added to that storyline that I felt was missing up to that point and really pulled me in only to end and leave me hanging. Overall this was a good book and I will need to pick up book number two to continue Vaughn and Xenas story especially due to that cliffhanger ending.
