GRR Reviews The Billionaire's Dilemma: Special Limite by Roxie Odell

The Billionaire's Dilemma as the 3-volume set was actually quite well done, as each volume can be read separately, but if read in order provides more background and better enjoyment. A lot of authors who adopt this "semi-serial" format failed to make each volume independent and to see one done properly was a treat.

Vol 1: Tag is the son of a billionaire, but he partied without care... Including sleeping with his best friend's fiancee, until his best friend found out and almost killed himself in front of Tag at a party. He also found a woman that thoroughly bewitched him... Melanie, who's smart, doesn't take any guff, and sexy, and left before he could get a surname. When Tag's father suffered a heart attack and needed Tag to take over as CEO, he found to his surprise that Melanie is his father's chief of staff ("glorified secretary" according to his father). Can they carry on in secret? What happens when his father come back? Who was Mr. Romeo that his father was trying to keep secret?

A standard "hot for boss" trope was made that much more interesting with the complications, esp. when Tag wasn't as playboy as she thought he was, and he was able to lean on Melanie for advice. 4/5

Vol 2: Tag's father's return means Tag just got fired from the CEO position, and any attempt by Tag to create his own future was shut down by his father with ruthless efficiency, and his attempt to shield Melanie from his misogynistic father backfired. Tag had no choice but to contact Mr. Romeo if he can have any room to negotiate with his father. But Mr. Romeo sent him on a series of quests to find out what was the Tag's father hiding from the world... and it seems to have bearings on the disappearance of Tag's mother, and virtual exile of his brother...

The mystery deepens as the "hot for boss" trope was abandoned and the genre shifted into romantic suspense, where Tag's attempt to help out his friends and Melanie backfired, even as Mr. Romeo's quests sent Tag and Melanie into learning long-buried secrets. Unfortunately, Tag's father just comes across as "evil" but for no apparent reason other than he can. 3.5/5

Vol 3: Tag and Melanie are about to chase down the truth about Tag's father, and meet with Mr. Romeo, who seem to hold all the secrets, until a Ms. Juliette entered the equation, and both of them knew too much about Tag's entire family to be an outsider. This time, long-held family secrets will be revealed, people will die, painful truths confronted, and evildoers will get their karma. But no one will leave unscathed...

In the concluding volume, all the secrets are revealed, and the plot twists buried in the previous volumes will be resolved. Some parts are a bit too Hollywood (tap a keyboard and all the screen explodes?! Really?!) 4.5/5

Category: Contemporary / Romantic Suspense

Primary Plot:  N/A, collection of 3 novels, that fit into one solid plot

Tropes: hot for boss, protector, evil parent, family secret, conspiracy

Overall Rating:  4/5  (averaged)