Why I read it: I bought this one on the recommendation of Melissa K. It turns out our Venn diagram isn’t in total agreement.

What it’s about: (from Goodreads) What happens when:
• your brother rashly goes to Vegas and is going to marry a stranger?
• you meet a beautiful woman on your way to stop him and have thoughts of following in his footsteps?
• she happens to be the daughter of your brother’s bride?

What happens when:
• you meet the hottest man around and he’s your new uncle?
• you can’t resist him?
• he dares you to ‘Say Uncle, again?’

A taste:
“Angel, you’re so perfect,” I breathed. My eyes never left hers as she came up behind me, wrapping her arms around my waist and placed her cheek on my spine. The feelings of completion engulfed me.
“Thank you, Uncle Dean,” she said sweetly.
“Did you just say uncle?” I asked menacingly, and I felt her smile on my back. This woman was too much.

What worked for me (and what didn’t): According to my reader, the novelette is 49 pages. I made it to page 29. It wasn’t the uncle thing which bothered me – if it had, I wouldn’t have bought it. After all, it’s right there in the title. The way the technical familial relationship was structured didn’t bother me in the least. In fact, I thought it was kinda funny and it was one of the factors that had me one-clicking.

But, I didn’t like Dean at all. I didn’t like the way he judged Angel for wearing too much makeup. I didn’t like the way he spoke to her. I didn’t like his high-handedness and I didn’t like how Angel didn’t tell Dean to shove his head the rest of the way up his ass and create a singularity. My asshole tolerance quotient (to use a maths term) is directly proportional to the doormat factor in the heroine and I didn’t see much but Angel getting walked on. She may not quite have had “welcome” tattooed on her torso, but her pushback seemed very lacklustre to me.

Also, there was Hymen Misplacement Syndrome (TM Smart Bitches) – dude (and author), the hymen is not INSIDE the body.

This is an example of one of the reasons I thought Dean was a dick:

“No, you’re not. If you think I’m going to let you run back to him because you’re scared of your natural reaction to me and mine to you, you are out of your mind. I’ve probably bred you today, and I’m not going to stop even after I breed you.”

And this is what pushed me over my personal edge and made me DNF the book. It wasn’t about Dean but it was just distasteful to me.

“I can see why my brother likes you.” I let them take it the way it sounded, but I sure as hell didn’t mean it as a compliment. She was as fake as they came, and her huge fake tits were my brother’s weakness. After he lost his wife to breast cancer ten years ago, he hated real breasts. Women with fake tits were the only kind he liked now.

(Apart from being distasteful, I think it’s biologically incorrect. AFAIK, women who have breast enlargement (as opposed to breast reconstruction) don’t have their breast tissue removed first. Getting a boob job is not a get-out-of-cancer-free card.)

What else? Obviously, this book is not my jam. If it is yours, great. (You’re not alone, it’s current Goodreads rating is 3.84). Plus, it’s only 99c – go for it. Personal taste is very subjective. I’m not apologising for not liking this one but if you did (or do), the above is not a personal judgement and you don’t have to justify or apologise for your opinion either. Like what you like. There’s plenty of room for all of us here.