Book Review

Fixed on You by Laurelin Paige

 

Stalking and restraining orders are a thing of Alayna Wither’s past. With her MBA newly in hand, she has her future figured out—move up at the nightclub she works at and stay away from any guy who might trigger her obsessive love disorder. A perfect plan.

But what Alayna didn’t figure on is Hudson Pierce, the new owner of the nightclub. He’s smart, rich, and gorgeous—the kind of guy Alayna knows to stay away from if she wants to keep her past tendencies in check. Except, Hudson’s fixed his sights on her. He wants her in his bed and makes no secret of it.

Avoiding him isn’t an option after he offers a business proposition she can’t turn down and she’s drawn further into his universe, unable to resist his gravitational pull. When she learns Hudson has a dark history of his own, she realizes too late that she’s fallen for the worst man she could possibly get involved with. Or maybe their less than ideal pasts give them an opportunity to heal each other and finally find the love their lives have been missing.

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Spoiler Warning:

I have skipped over reading this many a time just because of the first sentence in the description "Stalking and restraining orders are a thing of Alayna Wither's past". It really didn't interest me to read about a girl who was going to stalk people, but once I gave it a chance I came to find that Paige wrote a story with a topic that no other author has yet touched. Both Alayna and Hudson are faced with mental challenges that are rooted from their past. When they come together they find they understand each other while helping the other stay healthy. Both were working through their issues. When the characters realized they were enabling each other they confronted the situation and their behaviors and changed them. Nothing is more annoying than characters enabling and repeating stupid and obnoxious behavior that isn't fixing the situation they have created for themselves. 

Yes this plot follows a lot of the similar billionaire story but the details of Alayna and Hudson's personalities as well as the supporting characters is phenomenal. Book lovers often times can predict the outcome of an average thought out plot because they are so well versed in their reading. Paige set up her plot in a way where I did not see the ending coming. And at a time I did predict what would happen next it came to me as an epiphany, one minute I'm walking around my house thinking about the story and then next I realize what Celia's intentions for Alayna might be. The main shocker between Alayna and Hudson could not possibly be guessed and for that I applaud Paige for her creativity and writing ability.  

I'm rather excited to read Hudson's side of this novel. I'm interested to see how he came to believe he wasn't capable of love, and how his vindictive mind games started. That will be one novel that goes on my must read book list.

A.B.