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March 16, 2009 1:04 PM

BOOK REVIEW: Do Not Disturb by Tilly Bagshawe

I've read a few books by Louise Bagshawe but have never tried any by her sister, Tilly. Louise writes a good story in the bonkbuster style but isn't as, er, graphic.Tilly has added the more raunchy aspects to a story and has come up with a good book with all the bonkbuster elements included. Sex? Yes. Adultery? Yes. Revenge? Yes. Strong male, good looking and arrogant? Oh yes. And an assertive female that would never in a million years have anything to do with said male? You betcha.

We are thrown into the murky world of hotels, specifically within The Hamptons. Honor Palmer, a hardworking beautiful woman, inherits the Palmer hotel when her father dies. Honor loves the hotel and wants to restore it to its heyday. But she has many battles to fight. Not only has the hotel been neglected for a long time, but her step mother is after the trust, her sister is spending money fast and a new hotel is being built, right on the doorstep of Palmers. With handsome but arrogant Lucas Ruiz in charge.

I don't warm to Honor or Lucas at the beginning, but then maybe I wasn't meant to. Both of them go on a emotional journey with ups and downs, and which mainly centre around one man. Anton Tisch. This man is seriously wealthy and owns the hotel that is being built in The Hamptons. He wants Palmers to go down. Not just destroyed but annihilated. And he will use any means necessary to do so, including his manager, Lucas.

A touch predictable perhaps in the storyline and not realistic at all, but then, that isn't the purpose of this type of book. It is all about fantasy and escapism. And if that's what you want (and who doesn't at the moment when the media is full of depressing stories) then this is the right book to find it in.

Rating: 3/5

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Posted by Helen Redfern on March 16, 2009 in Bonkbusters, Rating: 3/5 | Permalink

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