Review: The Client and the Call Girl – Emily Sinclaire

Stunning FBI agent Charlotte (Charlie) Chandler goes undercover to arrest Trent Logan, the CFO of the nation’s new healthcare company by posing as a high-class call girl because Trent has sexual needs that can only be fulfilled by hiring an escort. When she meets undercover IRS agent Randolph (Rand) Rhodes she is stunned by her instant, desperate attraction to him.

The problem?

Rand is working with the FBI on the inside of the healthcare company to gain proof that Logan is embezzling millions. But how can Charlotte be around Randolph, Trent’s “friend” and co-worker without blowing their cover?

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Publisher: Red Sage Publishing
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

“The client and the call girl lacked a believable plot, characters that can be identified with, and the ability to engage the reader on any level. The first 48 pages of the book were largely consumed with descriptions of how beautiful our heroine, Charlotte, looked with full descriptions of her dresses, curves, shoes, and jewelry. There was much more of that throughout the book to the point that it felt like Charlotte was the ego obsessed author of the book.

The characters were very standoffish with each other. There were certainly scenes describing the chemistry between Randolph and Charlotte but they were both so annoying I couldn’t really get into them or the steamy sex scenes. I’ve read and enjoyed plenty of books where the girl meets the guy and they don’t like each other but there is a natural progression to the story where they begin to like and love each other. That was totally missing in this book. They would have sex and Charlotte would announce they weren’t a couple or she would hit him for trying to be protective of her. There were just a series of random actions that kept me shaking my head and re-reading passages trying to figure out how and why they fell in love.

The plot was great but the details were so farfetched. Charlotte is a call girl that isn’t really a prostitute but kinda sorta does everything but go all the way (Am I in jr. high school?). There numerous instances where the author points out that Charlotte’s “”john””, Trent, has perverted sexual proclivities but none of that comes through in the book. In fact, he seems rather docile and content to spend huge sums of money for what amounts to a pat and rub. At times the author indicated that Charlotte was being followed by one of Trent’s people but she still is able to meet with Randolph at her home and his home but no mention of anyone following her in those sections. Trent and Randolph have confrontations where there is physical contact. However, they go back to business as usual in the office the next day with no mention of what happened.

This was a terrible disappointment. I had hoped to see a flawed female character that changes her ways for love and a strong male character that sees beyond her actions to the heart of who she is. If you’re looking for that….I’m afraid you’ll have to join me and keep looking.