My Review:
Before I start this review, I want to mention the Cover! If there was ever a cover to suck you into a novel and beg you to read it……this would be that cover!
I like to think of Filthy Rich by Raine Miller as a modern-day Cinderella story. Man sees woman, man is smitten with woman, man falls hopelessly head over heels in love with woman only to find said woman is trying to work her way through a previously horrible relationship that ended tragically and is unable to let herself feel anything even close to love.
Caleb Blackstone has everything he could ever want in life. He has his wealth, a good family and friends. But the one thing he wants is Brooke.
Brooke Casterley is an English woman who moved to the United States to live with her Nan after her parents were killed in a car accident. She is now in her twenties and has been through more than your normal twenty year old can even imagine.
I loved Filthy Rich. I loved how the man chases the skittish woman. When I first read the synopsis, I thought this was going to be the typical ‘Cinderella’ storyline. I was happy to find that it was nothing like what I imagined it would play out as.
For starters, I expected Caleb to be the typical playboy with a cocky ‘everybody wants me’ attitude. But instead Caleb is actually a sweetheart that is kind and understanding towards Brooke and her past. He knew if he rushed her or made her feel she was being backed into a corner he would lose her and he wasn’t about to let that happen.
I expected Brooke to be somewhat on the weak side but again I was wrong. Brooke showed true inner strength. After everything she has been through, given her past, she has moved forward and found a way to cope with the nightmare that she has lived through.
I even really enjoyed the secondary characters and am really excited to read their stories.
One thing that was a small drawback for me was when Brooke’s previous husband’s ‘dangerous’ family were mentioned several times in this novel. I kept waiting for this big mafia style boss man to appear and be threatening towards Caleb and Brooke’s relationship but that point never came. I understand that Brooke’s story in this novel isn’t all rainbows and unicorns and that something does in fact happen to her, however, it wasn’t what I was expecting. That alone was a drawback but it was also a heightened point of interest for me. It taught me to never try to predict the outcome of a Raine Miller novel, because it may not necessarily happen the way you imagine it happening. Although it was a small drawback in the end I loved the outcome!
Filthy Rich is an amazing, feel good read, about true love and stopping at nothing when it come to protecting the one you love and showing the one you love that even though there are black clouds in your past, the future holds the silver lining.
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Blurb
Billionaire Caleb Blackstone lives in the glamorous world of wealth and success, with every material luxury. But the moment he sees Brooke Casterley, none of that matters. Caleb is filled with a raw, undeniable need that he can’t ignore…for a girl who is so completely different from everything and everyone he’s ever known.
Only Brooke isn’t looking for love. She knows all too well just how much damage the wrong guy can do. Still, what sane, broke British girl can resist the charms of an incredibly sexy, chivalrous billionaire? What starts as flirtation quickly turns into all-consuming passion. Nothing could have prepared her for the searing heat of Caleb’s touch—or just how much she craves him.
Their whirlwind romance is the stuff of high-society fantasy—but for every moment of pleasure, there is a cost. Past mistakes and tragedy shadow them both…and falling for him might be the kind of trouble she can’t afford.
Excerpt
I would give this thing two drinks max before I was outie.
Nodding and saying the right things, I shook hands with the colleagues who’d known my father and accepted condolences from others. I made a mental note of the people who’d made the effort to mention his name to me, and I would write them down with the event and date as soon as I got home.
I’d worked my way through the room, as I had been taught by my dad—by the best to ever work a roomful of potential deals—when I decided I’d accomplished what I’d set out to do tonight. It was time for me to go. After setting my glass down on an empty table, I started for the door . . . until I saw her.
Just like that. She appeared in my line of sight and I couldn’t take my eyes off her.
The beautiful girl from this morning at the Starbucks on Hereford Street.
I knew it was her because how could anyone forget those sexy boots? Her blonde hair wasn’t down like it had been this morning, though. She’d pulled it back into a sleek ponytail . . . but she was serving at this event? I’d seen her go into that design studio next to Starbucks. She probably had two jobs. Industrious . . . beautiful . . . sexy.
I quickly returned for my half-empty glass and snatched it up from the table. I suddenly felt like an appetizer or two.
She saw me approaching and moved closer with her tray. “What are these called?” I asked without sparing her tray a second glance. Bad move on my part, but I was too busy taking in her golden eyes and hair, and everything else I could now see up close. Perfect skin, dark lashes that framed spectacular eyes, and a scar along the hairline of the right side of her face. Something had hurt her at some point in the past, and I found it utterly insane that I was disturbed by it.
She rolled her pink lips together as if she was trying to suppress laughter. “Well, they’ve told me it’s something called a . . . meatball. Very unusual gourmet creation. You should try one. They’re said to be quite delicious.”
That voice of hers was . . . fucking beautiful.
“Okay.” I picked up a meatball and popped it in my mouth. Didn’t taste a thing. I could have been chewing slaughterhouse by-products and I wouldn’t have known. My brain had shut off everything except her beautiful voice.
“You are either messing with me or that blow to your head must have been devastating. I would wager you’ve had a meatball before.”
“I am.”
She lost her smile. “You are messing with me?”
“No, I am devastating—I mean devastated—by the blow to my head.” What in the mother fuck was I even saying to this girl? I sounded like Rain Man minus the IQ. I needed to stop talking.
“I’m sorry to hear that. It looks painful.”
“It doesn’t hurt me now.” I think I smiled and shook my head but couldn’t be sure. Just call me the village idiot because I knew I was acting like one. I did love the sound of her voice, though.
“Another rare and precious meatball?” She offered her tray and studied me this time. She had to be disgusted by my appearance and turned off by my behavior, but she didn’t show it if she was.
“Yes, please.” I took another meatball but I didn’t eat it. “You are British.”
“You are American,” she said with a fast wink, before turning away to serve other guests.
I watched her walk away from me and felt the pounding of my heart vibrating throughout my entire body.
Something had just happened to me.
I wasn’t completely sure what exactly, but I was crystal clear on the reason.
Her.
About the Author:
Raine Miller has been reading romance novels since she picked up that first Barbara Cartland book at the tender age of thirteen. And it’s a safe bet she’ll never stop, because now she writes them too! Granted Raine’s stories are edgy enough to turn Ms. Cartland in her grave, but to her way of thinking, a hot, sexy hero never goes out of fashion. A former teacher, she’s now writing sexy romance stories full time. She has a handsome prince of a husband, two brilliant sons, and two bouncy Italian Greyhounds to pull her back into the real world if the writing takes her too far away. Her sons know she likes to write stories, but gratefully have never asked to read any, thank God! Raine loves to hear from readers and to chat about the characters in her books. You can contact her at raine_miller@ymail.com or visit www.RaineMiller.com to sign up for updates and her newsletter with links to upcoming books. Join us on Facebook at the Raine Miller Romance Readers group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/raine_miller
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