Review: Stuck-Up Suit by Vi Keeland

3 STARS FOR SEXY GRAHAM AND THE SOMETIMES VIVACIOUS SORAYA!

*SOME SPOILERS ARE DISCUSSED! READ AT YOUR DISCRETION!*

It started out like any other morning on the train.
Until I became mesmerized by the guy sitting across the aisle.

He was barking at someone on his phone like he ruled the world.
Who did the stuck-up suit think he was...God?
Actually, he looked like a God. That was about it.
When his stop came, he got up suddenly and left. So suddenly, he dropped his phone on the way out.
I might have picked it up.
I might have gone through all of his photos and called some of the numbers.
I might have held onto the mystery man's phone for days―until I finally conjured up the courage to return it.
When I traipsed my ass across town to his fancy company, he refused to see me.
So, I left the phone on the empty desk outside the arrogant jerk's office.
I might have also left behind a dirty picture on it first though.
I didn't expect him to text back.
I didn't expect our exchanges to be hot as hell.
I didn't expect to fall for him―all before we even met.
The two of us couldn't have been any more different.
Yet, you know what they say about opposites.
When we finally came face to face, we found out opposites sometimes do more than attract―we consumed each other.
Nothing could have prepared me for the ride he took me on. And I certainly wasn't prepared for where I'd wind up when the ride was over.
All good things must come to an end, right?
Except our ending was one I didn't see coming

If this is such a sexy book, what's up with the 3 stars!?! Well, it is a very sexy book. It definitely was making me feel hot and uncomfortable at my desk during my lunch break, BUT I need a little more from a contemporary romance book. What can I say? I think that a contemporary romance novel needs to have a strong plot that can stand on its own if all of the sex scenes are removed. Also, I was a little caught off guard with how fast of a read this was. I finished the book in less than 24 hours. I don't necessarily consider this a negative, just something that I note in comparison to other books. 

There were some moments that really stood out for me. They provided a little more depth and emotion (an emotion besides hot and bothered). Such as, the conversation with Soraya and her father or the conversation with Graham's grandmother, Meme. Yet overall, looking at the work as a whole. The actual development of Soraya and Graham's relationship moved really pretty fast. No wonder her friends were okay with her consideration of ending their relationship. Also, it felt like a lot of the secondary characters were base. They were very stereotypical and predictable, but that doesn't mean that I didn't find them kind of amusing. 

So looking at the two main characters, Graham and Soraya. I'll start with Graham, just because Graham is sexy and honestly really kind of confusing as a character. Keeland initially describes Graham as this sexy, Mr. Big Prick, asshole that likes to play with his watch. He scowls, yells, bosses everyone around, and for some reason as a reader you assume that he just sleeps around. The only thing that I can recall as a reader that was discussed on the topic of his sex life was Avery saying "Did you already go through your whole list of contact to booty call and now you are back at the letter A?" (she said something to that extent). Plus, I'm pretty sure that Soraya already had the notion in her had that he just sleeps around. 

All of that aside, how Graham is described in the beginning of the story immediately seems to go out the door once Graham sees Soraya's face and takes her to dinner. After that, Graham is all of a sudden a gentleman, family man, serious relationship type guy. His feelings for Soraya are definitely stronger than her's and he is definitely more invested in the relationship then Soraya. Well, doesn't that seem a little strange for a guy that says that he has issues with a relationships, getting attached, and trust?!? Wouldn't you think that he would want to take things slow? You know, kind of see if she is only after him for his title and money? He is only a google search away and his net worth is public knowledge. This definitely leads to the whole Pretty Woman syndrome going on. Well, apparently all of his previous negative concerns with relationships and trust are gone, also, he is apparently perfect with 4 year-old kids, because you know he has spent a lot of time with kids. Yeah, a guy that is a single child and, as far as the reader knows, has little to no experience with kids, has no reservation with 4 year-old kids. He didn't learn from his first tattoo that getting someone's name tattooed is a kiss of death. All of these are chalked up to his past and is dismissed with a conversation Meme. 

(Reviewer's Personal note: my personal experience with men lead me to think that most guys seem to know nothing about kids and are honestly scared to death of babies and children. I'm not saying that there are not guys out there that are great with kids, love kids, and are perfect with them. There are! But the guys that are great with kids, either 1. Grew up with a lot of kids in there family 2. Supervised kids at camp, church, vbs, boy scouts, etc. (you know what I'm talking about) 3. Have that intuition with kids, they are not afraid of kids or being around them.)

My overall feeling with Graham is that he is the ATTEMPT at trying to have the perfect best of both worlds type of guy. The initial angry guy in control of everything, because let's be honest ladies. Sometimes seeing a guy angry is a turn on, please don't take me saying that to mean violence. In no way, shape, or form is violence okay. Then, he is the perfect gentleman. Wanting to date her, sending flowers, sending lunch, buying her clothes. The whole works. (Btw, on the topic of the flowers. I was a little taken back by that. A little bit of a WTF!?! moment happened) Lastly, Graham then turned into the perfect husband/father man. Wanting to have kids with Soraya, marriage, and be completely in Chloe's life. 

Graham pretty much went through an evolution of every type/form of a guy that a woman would want. Yet, it was all kind of weird and strange. It kind of had a Twilight feel to it for some reason. The whole love at first sight syndrome. Whirlwind romance. Like I said initially, Graham is kind of confusing. 

Now, Soraya. I really really really liked Soraya in the beginning. Yes, in the beginning of the book I really liked Soraya. She was a strong-headed woman. She spoke her mind, colored her hair, had a "I don't give a d*mn what you think" attitude. She was a sassy, vivacious woman! She wasn't the type that would really rush into things. She came across as logical, smart, not naive or immature. I felt this way, until after the dinner date I would say. Sometime when her and Graham started seeing each other, which they pretty much started to see each other like everyday. Soraya, as a character, completely did a 180 on me. I feel like she lost all her sense of confidence once any reference or interaction happened with Avery and Genevieve. When it came to actually having a relationship, she was clueless and has seriously a lot of commitment/daddy issues. I feel like she gives all control to Graham. I felt like Soraya stopped saying no, she became a yes person once she was in a relationship with Graham and Chloe came around. There is a little bit of a hint that she gets back to the person she was before. I hope so! Soraya was cool in the beginning of the book before she lost all of her mojo. 

I'm not as critical on Soraya as I am Graham. My only issues with Soraya is that she seemed to lose her spirit and has no clue when it comes to relationships. She fell in love way to fast, but she did seem to put up a fight and wanted to put some boundaries before jumping into things. That lasted like a whole 2 weeks. I do wish that Keeland told us if Graham gave Soraya his grandmother's ring, since the ring was brought up. 

Thus, 3 stars instead of 4! Too much rushing in the relationship. It gave it that whole love at first site feeling, Twilight thing. If there was more development leading to these changes in the character, I would have possibly given it 4 stars.