Tempting Isabel by Rissa Brahm
Published: 24th May 2016
Publisher: 108 Dergrees
Pages: 336
Available on Kindle
Rating: 4/5
Blurb
Luck. Lust. Love.
Wedding planner Isabel Ruiz is cursed. Her hometown of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico agrees, considering her tragic track record. Alone and loveless, she creates fairy-tale weddings for others. Her only distraction? The occasional anonymous fling. So to avoid further tragedy, her rule, one–night–only, is never broken…
Until Zack.
Self-made millionaire Zack James is in town for his brother’s wedding, when a sudden spell of depression hits. Maybe burned out by his fast and luxurious lifestyle? Not even his two female companions hold any interest.
That is, until he meets Isabel.
She humbles and captivates him, reigniting his thirst for life. With her, Zack feels more alive than ever. To his delight—and her dismay—they share a deep bond, a sensual connection, and one mind-bending night.
Zack must have her – to complete him. And Isabel must escape him – to save him.
Their game of catch and chase leads to lust-turned-love. For Isabel, it's fate’s cruelest joke. But Zack won’t quit, positive he’s the cure to her curse. Can he convince her to risk everything with him? Or will it all go south…in paradise.
Wedding planner Isabel Ruiz is cursed. Her hometown of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico agrees, considering her tragic track record. Alone and loveless, she creates fairy-tale weddings for others. Her only distraction? The occasional anonymous fling. So to avoid further tragedy, her rule, one–night–only, is never broken…
Until Zack.
Self-made millionaire Zack James is in town for his brother’s wedding, when a sudden spell of depression hits. Maybe burned out by his fast and luxurious lifestyle? Not even his two female companions hold any interest.
That is, until he meets Isabel.
She humbles and captivates him, reigniting his thirst for life. With her, Zack feels more alive than ever. To his delight—and her dismay—they share a deep bond, a sensual connection, and one mind-bending night.
Zack must have her – to complete him. And Isabel must escape him – to save him.
Their game of catch and chase leads to lust-turned-love. For Isabel, it's fate’s cruelest joke. But Zack won’t quit, positive he’s the cure to her curse. Can he convince her to risk everything with him? Or will it all go south…in paradise.
Review
Tempting Isabel is the first book in Rissa Brahm’s new
Paradise South series. In this book we
meet Isabel and Zack, two people so different but so completely right for each
other.
Isabel Ruiz works as a wedding planner in Puerto Vallarta in
Mexico. She believes she has been cursed as anyone who ever gets close to her
ends up in a fatal accident. Shunned by most of the town and all but three of
her eleven siblings Isabel leads a lonely and loveless life, throwing herself
into her work in order to gain some happiness. When she needs a release she has
some strict rules about the men she encounters, no last names and one night
only for Isabel cannot risk the life of anyone else by allowing them to come
too close, until she meets Zack James and everything changes.
Self-made millionaire Zachery James is visiting Puerto
Vallarta for business and pleasure, his little brother Darren is getting
married. He’s a self-confessed womaniser but recently he’s hit a dry spell
where the woman around just don’t satisfy him anymore. Zack begins to fall into
a depression until he bumps into Isabel literally and there she is the woman of
all his dreams, all he has to do now is win her heart.
When these two meet the sparks fly and the chemistry between
them is red hot, vowing just one night
Isabel lets herself go. Fate is very cruel to Isabel for whenever she’s fallen
in love disaster has struck and has ended in fatal damage, but she can’t get Zack
out of her head which leads them into very dangerous territory. As Isabel
pushes Zack away to save him from her curse Zack becomes even more determined
that he is the one that break it for good. Can these two overcome fate and live
happy ever after?
Initially I found this quite a hard book to get into, at the
beginning there is an awful lot of swearing which kind of put me off and both
Zack and Isabel seemed characters that were shallow and self-centred. This
changed after about chapter six after these two meet, after that I began to
quite like them and at the end I was surprised by how well Rissa Brahms has
developed the characters.
After a slow start this book really picked up for me and
became everything I believe a good romance should be. It had two characters
with red hot chemistry, a beautiful setting, some very entertaining dialogue
and a little bit of mystery. Towards the second half I became completely engrossed
and was sad to finish, but luckily I have two more books in the series to go
and read.
I’d like to thank the author Rissa Brahma and Neverland Blog
Tours for my review copy in exchange for my honest opinions and for inviting me
to be part of the blog tour.
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