Review: Sweet the Sin by Claire Kent (Revenge #1)
When pet portrait artist Kelly Watson meets a man with a German shepherd at a local park, she mistakenly assumes them to be her next clients. Instead, Kelly and the stranger engage in an unforgettable tryst in the woods and walk away from each other, insisting that it was nothing more than the one-time thing they usually go for with other people. But when she learns that the man she was with was the one who orchestrated the murder of her beloved father eighteen years ago, Kelly is drawn into a plot for revenge and justice--two things owed to her and her family by Caleb Marshall. Getting close to him is one thing, but when Kelly finds herself torn between her need for revenge and her growing feelings for Caleb, her laid-out plans become even far more dangerous and complicated than she could have ever imagined.
Sweet the Sin is the first book in the romantic suspense Revenge series from author Claire Kent and was one that had an intriguing concept--a twenty-eight-year-old artist named Kelly Watson decides to exact revenge on Caleb Marshall, a forty-four-year-old pharmaceuticals company CEO and the man believed to be behind her father's murder. I understand the need for justice and revenge, but I couldn't fathom why she would so easily capitulate to her estranged mother's demands especially since her opinion of the woman wasn't all that great. The fact that her mother seemed to be more than okay that her own daughter sleep with someone who was thought to be a murderer or, at the very least, masterminded the crime, should have had Kelly second-guessing the whole thing. It just seemed completely off as far as I could see.
Kelly uses sex to lure Caleb in because that's the one thing that connects them initially, and I get that she had to do what was necessary, but it got to the point that reading about her trying to fake her orgasms grated on my nerves. The fact that there were times she actually enjoyed the sex made it clear that she was crossing back and forth that very line she had established in her oh-so-confused head. Obviously, she hadn't thought her plan all the way through. And while Caleb's guilt isn't entirely established here--because yes, it does end in a cliffhanger--he came off as more sympathetic and I think it had to do, in large part, to the transformation he makes from a cold and calculating millionaire to someone who actually starts to feel. There were things I questioned in Sweet the Sin, but it was a pretty good 3.5-starred read. ♥
Date Read: 01 October 2015
Learn more about Claire Kent here.
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