The Big, Bad Billionaire series by L. Steele revolves around 7 men who became close friends after being kidnapped for ransom in their youth. (Six of the 7 came from wealthy families, while the 7th just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time). The experience bonded them for life and together they became powerful billionaires vowing to get revenge on all those involved in their kidnapping. Though kidnapped and held in captivity together, the experience, and thus the after effects and how they each dealt with it differed. So each has his own particular baggage and ways of dealing with it. Currently, there a 3 books already out in the series, but...7 friends, so 7 books ultimately. Each book is a stand-alone about of one of the 7, but with a common backstory dealing with their revenge that runs through all of them.
Billionaire's Fake Wife is the first in the series and is Sinclair (Sin) Sterling's story. As the only one of the 7 who didn't come from money, he was the expendable one and used as an example for the other families so his experience was pretty horrendous. Domineering and manipulative to get what he wants, he is definitely a villain/hero. (The h even calls him an "alphahole"...often.) He's a bit of a "Dom" especially in the bedroom. But he does have a soft side which peaks out every now and then and more often as he becomes more enamored of the h.
The h, Summer Cora West, is the daughter of the man who kidnapped Sin as a child for the Mob because he was indebted to them. She and her sister believe their father is dead as the grew up in foster care. Summer has her own issues, but is sweet, with occasional submissive tendencies, but still no pushover and not afraid to fight back. She's smart and sassy.
He intends to use her to bring her father back from the U.S. (Story takes place in U.K.), to see him ruined and get their revenge. After, he will let her go, not caring if he breaks her in the process. But his plans stray as, unlike most people, afraid to confront him and who usually just run and hide, she does the exact opposite. She stands up to him, tells him off, fights him and yet, at times, gives in to him. Just when he thinks he has her figured out so he knows how she'll react to something, she does the complete opposite and throws him for a loop. The more she challenges him, the more intrigued he becomes.
I loved that her hot and cold, fight or give in attitude was natural to her personality as was fighting her aattraction to the H. It was a real emotional response and not calculated. He is pretty much the same though he tries to convince himself his actions are calculated. When he's being an alphahole, it's mostly because he's trying to fight his attraction and convince himself he has no feeling for her or anyone. I loved her, and just couldn't hate him, even in the beginning when he was at his worst. I loved the interplay between them.
Warning... As I said previously, Sin is a bit of a Dom so expect some bdsm tendencies (e.g., some spankings (mostly for pleasure), control in the bedroom and some intense sexual scenes.) If you plan to read this series, I think it's safe to say that you can expect similar in all the 7's stories...particularly Saint's (next in line). He featured most prominent of the other 6 friends in this story and based on how he is presented, I suspect he is the most dominant of all and prefers his women submissive....guess I'll find out for sure when I read the next!
One final word, L. Steele has written has another story coming out soon that is about Summer's sister, Karma. Although it is not part of the Bad Boy Billionaires series, it is tied to it in that Karma's love interest is the current leader of the Mob family that was responsible for the 7's kidnapping. Karma's story will span more than 1 book as part of another series (not sure how many, but likely to be cliff hangers).
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Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2020
The following ratings are out of 5:Romance: ❤️💙💜Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙World building: 🌎🌍🌏🌎Character development: 👤👤👤👤The setting: Great BritainThe Hero: Sinclair Sterling (a.k.a. Sin) – Filthy rich and determined to get Revenge for somet he and his six (Friends?) suffered when they were younger. They call it the incident and it changed them all. Now they are all wealthy and work together. At times it seems they are friends, but other times they describe themselves as enemies. Sin wants revenge agains the heroine’s father and the people he worked for at the time of the incident. So he has maneuvered her into a position where he can use her.The heroine: Summer West – Trying to get her fledgling business off the ground and paying the bills which include medical bills for her sister who is sick, she isn’t in a position to refuse Sin even though her very nature has her balking at everything he does and says. He blackmails her and she has no choice but to help him by doing what he wants.The Love Story: Sinclair bullies and blackmails Summer into becoming his fake bride to draw Summer’s father to him. The same father who left her and her sister to the foster care system after her mother died. For years Summer has assumed her father died. However when her father does appear, Sin seems to want to protect Summer more than use her.I liked the fact that Sinclair is a dominant and cocky alpha male who does what it takes to get what he wants. However, I sometimes have trouble with dominant men who aren’t afraid to take what they want, but then take forever to do the deed. I’m not saying that things didn’t get steamy early on in the book because they did. However, I hate it when a guy is supposed to be so bad that he will dominantly take what he wants, but then he doesn’t follow all the way through. Sin follows through and then some. This book was Scorching.The story also turned out to be much better than I originally thought. The “incident” was explained, at least from Sinclair’s experience. There are still six of his friends that went through something similar and I suspect we will find out what that was a book at a time. Next up is Saint and he is every bit as rich, powerful and handsome as Sin.Apparently Sinclair and Saint are both “gazillionaires”, I always thought that was a made up word, but I was curious about how many billions made a gazillion so I Googled. It turns out it is actually a word in Webster’s Dictionary, but I think it was probably one of those made up slang words that became a word just because so many people used it, unlike million or billion which are actual numbers, gazillion just means a whole bunch. But still, I wouldn’t mind falling in love with a gazillionaire. Overall I really liked this book and my star rating is based on an average of my other ratings (above).I voluntarily read & reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts & opinions are my own.
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2020
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