Review ‘Seduced By The Enemy’ by Alyssa J. Montgomery

Author: Alyssa J. Montgomery

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Publisher: Escape Publishing

ISBN: B07J69MVS7

Goodreads Rating: 3.46

Luca's father and brother tore Olivia's family apart, and she can never, never forgive them. But for the sake of a motherless child, they will have to put aside their animosity and work together to give her the life she deserves. But when Olivia isn't focused on her hatred, she is able to see the care and love that Luca can give. Suddenly, her enemy doesn't seem so horrible, but to fall for him would betray everyone that she loves.

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I’ve read two books by Alyssa J. Montgomery before, which I enjoyed. So when I saw ‘Seduced by the Enemy’ on Netgalley I just couldn’t resist and requested to read it. Especially when I saw the ‘Billionaires and Babies’ part. It definitely sounded interesting and I was excited to start reading.

In ‘Seduced by the Enemy’ we meet Olivia and Luca. Olivia’s life has been pretty damn hard the last view years. The sister she loved deeply dies soon after her baby died in childbirth. And after Olivia’s father heard the news he died of a heart attack. This can all be blamed to Luca’s father. Luca is a Italian billionaire and represents everything Olivia hates. But they both have misunderstandings about each other that need to be sorted and slowly on they start to realize not everything is the way it seemed.

Well, what can I say.. this book wasn’t for me. The characters where nice enough, and I loved the whole concept of this story but there was just to much that didn’t work for me. For starters I thought the whole backstory was way too complicated and a little to unbelievable for me. Everything that could go wrong, went wrong for Olivia and it was just too much.

The romance between Olivia and Luca was nice enough. But I just didn’t like Olivia’s character all that much, and there where several things about her character that irritated me endlessly. Especially the fact she hated Luca so much one minute, and then she suddenly loved him. And there where just so many misunderstanding between Luca and Olivia that I just didn’t get their connection at all.

The writing overall was good. And although I didn’t really get the romance and I thought some parts of this book where just too much, I found myself wanting to keep on reading so I would know how the story ended. But still, in the end this book was just not for me.

Alyssa enjoys writing pacy, passionate contemporary romance novels and her favourites involve some plot twists. She also writes medieval romance under the pen name Alyssa James. Alyssa still has a busy private practice where she works as a Speech-Language Pathologist – mainly with children with developmental disorders, literacy difficulties and autism. She has also been a professional pianist and worked for Qantas Airways as an International Flight Attendant. Alyssa lives with her husband and three children in New South Wales, Australia on a five acre property. They have a menagerie of animals and also enjoy occasional visits from deer, wallabies, echidna and the daily morning singing of numerous varieties of native birds. Spare time is fairly limited with three children, however dinner parties with friends, gardening and playing tennis or saddling up the horses and going for a trail ride, are favourite activities. For more information about Alyssa please visit her website. Or visit her on Facebook and Twitter.

Maureen Bakker

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