Review: The Bastard by Lisa Renee Jones

The Bastard

by Lisa Renee Jones

I'm the bastard child, son to the mistress, my father's backup heir to the Mitchell empire. He sent me to Harvard. I left and became a Navy SEAL, but I'm back now, and I finished school on my own dime. I'm now the right hand man to Grayson Bennett, the billionaire who runs the Bennett Empire. I'm now a few months from being a billionaire myself. I don't need my father's company or his love. My "brother" can have it. I will never go back there. I will never be the mistake my father made, the way he was the mistake my mother made.

And then she walks in the door, the princess I'd once wanted more than I'd wanted my father's love. She wants me to come back. She says my father needs to be saved. I don't want to save my father but I do want her. Deeply. Passionately. More than I want anything else.

But she's The Princess and I'm The Bastard. We don't fit. We don't belong together and yet she says he needs me, that she needs me. We're like sugar and spice, we don't mix, but I really crave a taste. Just one. What harm can just one taste 
do?

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REVIEW:

3.5 stars *** The Bastard is book one in the Filthy duet. In this book, we get  Eric (from the Dirty Rich series) and Harper's story. Eric is a  billionaire and right hand man to Grayson Bennett. He is the  ill-treated, bastard son to a rich jerk who managed to get away  from his family and become his own man. Harper is his  stepsister, whose mother married his father after they were  both grown. When they first met as adults, Harper and Eric  had an instant connection and spent a very hot night together.  But Harper was working for Eric's dad as his protege to run his  car manufacturing company and Eric wanted nothing to do  with his father or family. So their paths diverged and they  hadn't spoken for six years. Now, Harper is still working for her  stepfather's company and she knows something is not right.  She thinks her stepfather or stepbrother, Isaac, are covering  up something terrible in the company that is causing cars to be  recalled and consumer deaths. Harper goes to Eric for help.  He is reluctant at first and doesn't know whether he can trust  her, but the connection between the two of them is too strong  for him to deny. The two begin to try to solve the mystery  within the company. I liked this book in general, but I felt like it would have been  better off as one book instead of a duet. I did not see the need  to have it split. I liked Harper and Eric, but they didn't trust  each other throughout the entire book. It felt like their  relationship went nowhere. The book took too long to get  moving and not very much happened until the end, where  there was a big reveal and a cliffhanger. I am a fan of Ms. Jones  and I know her writing style. I have faith she will pull it all  together in book two. It just didn't read like this was a story  that needed to be split into a duet. If I had not read this  author's books before and trusted her, I'm not sure this book  would be enough to keep a reader's attention and make them  want to read book two. But, personally, I did feel invested  enough to continue. I just wish the two books were released  closer together. Still, I did like the story so far and I look  forward to the conclusion of Eric and Harper's story. I do think  they will be a good couple once they get their act together. I  did enjoy this book, even if I wanted it to move quicker. I like  Ms. Jones writing style. It is romantic, sexy, suspenseful and  deliciously soapy. I trust her to pull this story all together. I am  looking forward to the mystery being solved and their  relationship coming together in book two, The Princess.  ETA: I just read this duet is being turned into a trilogy. That  makes me less excited to finish the series because the story is  just going to be drawn out more, frustrating me further. Still, I  will read them both because I am hooked on this story enough  to see it through to the end.