Impure Intentions - Review

    

    I have never read a book with a dominant female. I decided to try something different since the premise for this book was very interesting!! However through reading this book I've learned that dominant FMCs are not for me. So let's start with the things I didn't like so we can end on a good note with this review. In books that have a foreign language being a heavy focus in the book, I really encourage authors to have some kind of glossary either at the beginning, end or in the sentenced in question so that those without knowledge of the language can still understand what's being said. That didn't happen in this book. So there were entire conversations that I didn't understand. The only alternative would be to stop reading and pull out the handy dandy Google translate. Which I didn't do. I just tried to use context clues. Which I think it worked for the most part. This didn't effect my rating of the book since this is something I consider minor, it just kinda sucked to miss context. Another thing that did affect the rating for me was the relationship between the main characters. I know they have history with each other but for Vivian, that past was forgotten. So for the fact that it felt that they fell into this love zone so quickly was a bit much. Especially considering the how much was unknown to her on purpose by those that care about her. She was not suspicious at all about anything. There was a lot of suspicious things that happened in this story, that I would been wary of. Vivian jumped head first into everything! Maybe if the book was longer then I wouldn't have felt thus way. Things just progressed at the speed of sound considering the dangers. I did see that Vivian and Mateo tried to get to know each other but....it just wasn't enough for me. Again this is all just my feelings while reading. I think that and the fact that I dont really like the female dominant aspect as I hoped I would made me feel very disconnected while reading. Now for the things I liked. I love learning about different cultures and we get the chance to do that in this book. While the language thing was a hang up for me, if it was layed out in a way that was understandable for me, then all of this would have been top tier!! The new years resolution, the cooking, the overbearing parents!! I loved seeing it all!! It brought the area that they were living in to life the way that only strong cultural things can! I definitely don't want the author to NOT include these things but just make it easier for others to understand. 

    As for the spice in this book, it was a big miss for me. The FMC being the Dom was not hitting for me. It caused the scenes to make me skip through it. Also the mystery behind Vivian's past was more interesting to me than whatever spice was happening with her and Mateo. I give it a 2 simply because I can't rate it any lower. Overall this book was a 3 for me. There was too many things missing for me to connects my likes and give this higher than that. I'm not sure I would recommend this but I also wouldn't say don't read it. It has its interesting parts and if you're willing to Google translate the conversations, it can be worth the read.