GRR Reviews The Token Series Boxed Set (Volumes 1-3 by Marata Eros

The Token Book 1-3 managed to set up a world with sympathetic characters, esp. the FMC, but the lack of resolution within each book made me wonder if I'm reading an endless soap opera rather than a romance.

Faren Mitchell is a physical therapist by day... exotic dancer by night. AND... she's a virgin. Her left-hand bears the scars of a horrific attack by her step-father, who is still out there, and her mother is in a semi-vegetative state from the same attack. Faren needed to raise the funds to put her mother into a proper nursing home... and was so distracted she got ran over by a motorcycle ridden by billionaire Jared "Mick" McKenna, the most attractive man she had ever seen, that she'd consider giving up her v-card to him. He felt guilty over causing her injury, but there was something more because Faren seems to switch between the shy innocent girl and the sexy temptress in the blink of an eye, not that she volunteered any information about her "2nd job". But Jared was determined to find some answers, even as Faren's worst nightmare came to life: her evil step-father had found her... at work, and barely escaped with her life. Unfortunately, her home was no longer safe, and even as Mick took her home, intending to keep her safe, a police detective who has a vendetta against Mick intervened. And Faren needed to do one more job to secure her mother's care, but to do so she needed to lie to Mick, the one man she doesn't want to lie to...

While I enjoy the twists and turns, each book / volume should be enough to stand on itself rather than being like a comic book or soap opera that always ends on a cliffhanger. It's also super-angst-y. I guess I don't enjoy being teased, and having 3 volumes instead of just one and the storyline is STILL nowhere near finished just makes me hope for a real ending already, even if it's just a "happy for now" ending.

Category: Contemporary / Romantic Suspense

Primary Plot: Innocent girl / exotic dancer, forced into it to keep her mother in a proper nursing home, was chased by her evil step-dad, and protected by a rich billionaire, but an angst-y police detective and the mob has other ideas

Tropes: mob, different worlds, woman in peril, protector, evil parents, triangle

Overall Rating: 3/5