Review: "Remind Me" by Ann Marie Walker & Amy K. Rogers (Chasing Fire #1)
Note: This ARC was provided by Penguin Group (Berkley, NAL/Signet Romance, DAW) via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Alessandra Chase knows what it's like to put familial obligations first because that's what life is like for those who raised with privilege and have expectations put upon them from the time they are born. She's engaged to be married to someone deemed suitable for her and she has no qualms about walking down the aisle. but when she crosses paths with billionaire businessman Hudson Chase, her world as she knows its comes to a standstill and wonders if this is her chance for redemption for how she treated her first love.
Hudson Chase knows what it's like to live a difficult life, barely scraping by to provide for himself and his younger brother. It's taken him years to create the empire he now rules over, a self-made billionaire who commands respect and attention. He's used to getting what he wants, including the girl he once loved but whose silent denial of their relationship broke his young heart. She may be wearing another man's ring on her finger but Hudson wants Allie and he's willing to bet that she wants him just as much as he wants her.
Remind Me is the first book in the Chasing Fire series by authors Ann Marie Walker and Amy K. Rogers and is contemporary romance filled with enough steam and sizzle between the main characters and snap, crackle, and pop in the story to keep you craving for the sequel. The idea of Hudson and Allie having been teenage sweethearts but he coming from the proverbial wrong side of the tracks meant their romance wouldn't last, then later becoming a billionaire and meeting once again was a nice change of pace for me.
Hudson and Allie's reunion and the revelations that come out later in the story make me wonder if Hudson did, indeed, plan doing what he did. The cynical part of me thinks that it's possible he wanted to get back at Allie for her lack of acknowledgment of him when her parents were around, but then the part of me that's read countless romance novel (okay, okay...the romantic in me then...) refuses to believe that he would be that callous and vengeful. Of course, it's highly possible there's a completely different scenario going on.
I like Hudson and Allie together, especially when he calls her "Alessandra" while he's trying to seduce or impress her but reverts to his old nickname of "Allie" when he's at he most open and vulnerable. The book does end in somewhat of a cliffhanger because there story's obviously not over and I'm more than interested to see what happens in the sequel. I recommend this for bookaholics who love their mega-rich alpha male lead characters and who enjoy a good second chance romance. Remind Me gets 4.5 stars! ♥
Release Date: 21 April 2015
Date Read: 16 April 2015
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