Review: The Favor by Suzanne Wright

The Favor by Suzanne Wright
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Enthralling Romance

I love Suzanne Wright, she hasn't written many contemporary romances, though what she has done, I've enjoyed. I think this book was the best yet as it was superb. It had all of the world building, character development and plot construction her other works had, just no shifters, vampires or demons.

Vienna works as a PA for a demanding, cold and ruthless business man, Dane. He is successful and driven and always gets what he wants. What Dane wants is for Vienna to marry him for 12 months so he can obtain a trust fund, which includes personal items his uncle left him. He doesn’t need the money, but he wants the things that connect him to a man he cared for.

Dane never wanted to get married. He wanted to succeed at everything he set his mind to, and he did. However, his uncle wanted him to be married because he had died financially successful but lonely and he didn’t want that for his nephews.

This seems on the surface to be the usual ‘marriage of convenience’ trope, which I happen to enjoy, which is why I downloaded it, however it is much more. There are so many layers to this story it’s hard to understand until you finish reading it. Both Vienna and Dane had very difficult childhoods in different ways. They also had caring adults during their childhoods who mattered to them and helped raise them. It affected them in completely different ways.

The people around Vienna and Dane are equally complex and have their own reasons for interfering in their marriage. They also have layers of motive and behaviour that are peeled back throughout the story. It’s a difficult line to walk, balancing the need to progress the story and also dwell on the emotional aspects of the characters but this author excels at it.

This really was a superb book and I enjoyed every page. I highly recommend it. I think I'm going to have re-read some of this author's books, because I haven't done it in a while and this book reminded me just how good she is.

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