Exina's Reviews > No Flowers Required

Change was coming. Time to seize the day, and everything that came with it.

3.5 stars

As for the base of the plot, I had a little You’ve Got Mail movie feeling. Alexa owns Divine Flowers, while Dillon and his family are the owners of the big, greedy Value Hardware, ruining Alexa’s business by selling cheap flowers.

Further episodes could also be great material for a romantic comedy movie, such as making out in the rain, or the auction scene.
Don’t get me wrong, it is a pretty enjoyable, lovely story, with hot yet emotional erotic scenes. I’m sure I would enjoy a movie made out of it.



Characters
Dillon. He is described as a “bad boy”, a rebel. Well, his appearance (tats, piercing and a Harley) perhaps makes him look like one, but actually he is a piece of cake. He is kind, helpful, affectionate, perceptive, and caring. He does charity work, makes rooftop gardens, and aquarelle paintings. He has a perfect body, talent in manual labor, and sense of responsibility for the environment. Perfect gentleman by day, perfectly dirty by night... I picture him like this:



Dillon may be perfect – too perfect, actually – but he is still likeable. Who wouldn’t trust a man like him?

Being with Dillon, more than anything else, made her believe. In romance. In hope. That not everything had to be difficult or hurt.

But Alexa is very wary, with “sadness in her eyes”. But where does it come from? Selling her dream house is sad, okay, but hardly ruins her life. You are not informed about her possible heartbreaks, and why she had built all those walls around herself. She is bitter, apparently with no reason. I found Alexa’s behavior a bit overdramatic. Her stubbornness and hostility toward Value Hardware was pretty narrow-minded too.



The backgrounds of the characters are vague, but their feelings and emotions throughout the story are amazingly well written. Actually, Dillon’s is, not Alexa’s. The characterization is a little unbalanced between the two of them. Dillon’s character is more consequent and clearer than Alexa’s.



Each event has a great timing in the plot, though sometimes I felt the filling parts, well, fillers.

The erotica is exceptionally spicy and filled with emotions, with the wonder of the unprecedented uniqueness, especially from Dillon’s part.



All in all, it is a great story, with a likeable hero, a little hysteric heroine, pretty good romance development, and heated, sizzling erotica. Recommended!



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