Red & Wolfe, Part One

by Ella James

• ASIN: B00K90J2MI
• Publish Date: 2014
• Publish Status: Unknown
• Format: eBook (Kindle)
• Pages: 52
• Language: English

Reviews

[Angie]

Red & Wolfe is the first part of a serial with a really interesting concept for a retelling. Sarah is completely down on her luck. She lost her job, her boyfriend left her, and now she's going to lose her apartment. While downing her last bottle of wine, Sarah drunkenly e-mails her long lost grandmother. Eventually she gets a reply along with $30,000, but it's not from her grandmother. Instead, it's James Wolfe: the man who claims to live on her grandmother's island and is in charge of her trust.

I did like Red & Wolfe at first. I really liked Sarah, but as soon as she meets James, it all goes downhill. I immediately disliked him greatly. He's just too overbearing, but not in the typical alpha male way. He's just irritating. And their first meeting really makes no sense. He manipulated Sarah into coming to the island, when he could have easily just told her the truth. He jumps to some pretty stupid conclusions about her, but based on all of this digging he supposedly did, he would have known she'd just hit a rough patch. I just couldn't buy into this story at all, and have no interest in continuing.

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[inlibrisveritas]

4.5 Stars!

It is incredibly rare to see me rate a book under 100 pages above 3 stars, much less an erotic novella, so let that be a testament to how much I enjoyed this one.

The story is not one of those ‘read a page of background, spend the next 34 pages reading about sex’ kind of books, in fact it has an actual story….with *gasps* actual characters! Sarah Ryder, aka Red, has hit rock bottom. She’s lost her job and she’s beyond broke, and in a desperate last ditch move she contacts her grandmother. I totally get Red…I know someone who acts pretty similar to her. I definitely like her attitude too, she doesn’t just submit and take whatever is handed to her. She fights back, or in the very least runs her mouth off. Wolfe on the other hand is a bit of a toss up. I’m not sure I completely like his ‘personality’ around Sarah, but I kind of dig the whole reclusive, artist shtick…it also helps that he’s pretty yummy.

With only 35 pages there is only so much story you can get to, and even though there is only a small taste of the r-rated fun to come it was definitely enough…for now. I hate cliffhangers but I can honestly say I’m looking forward to reading Part 2, now I just need May 21st to hurry up and I’ll be happy (until I finish it).

So if you enjoy this sort of read I say go for it! It may be short but it is totally worth it.