This review may contain spoilers, so fair warning, upon reading the review.

Book Evaluation:
Plot: 🎞️🎞️🎞️🎞️
World Building:🌎🌎🌎🌎
Cover:📔📔📔
Hero: 🦸🏻🦸🏻🦸🏻🦸🏻
Heroine:🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♀️
Intimacy Level: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Relationship Building: 💒💒💒💒
Heart & Feels:💞💞💞💞
Witty/Banter/Reaction of Laughter: 😂😂😂😂😂
Page Turner Level:📖📖📖📖
Ending:🧧🧧🧧🧧🧧
Overall View: ✨✨✨✨


First Impressions
Hot Commodity is a story that will blow your mind out of the water. Its a book that I should have expected this author to write, but it still was wild and crazy and complete bananas and yet I was completely on board with it. Linda Kage has a way about her writing, that no matter the crazy plot or circumstances that comes into play, I am ready to jump right into the story. And this author definitely wrote some crazy situations here, but you know what it completely worked for me while at the same time implementing great heart and character depth along the way. I fell so hard for these characters and their journey is not what you expect it will be from reading the blurb.

First Line
Olivia Donovan shouldn've known better than to answer the door to her twelfth-floor suite

The Main Protagonists
The Hero: Cameron Banks
Cameron is a billionaire, running a financing company working with his cousin aka also his best friend. A recovering alchoholic from losing his wife to suicide.

The Heroine: Olivia Donovan
Olivia is a socialite in her own way, all she knows is the parties and events that her mother plans.
She is constantly being emotionally abused and manipulated until she sees a way out of the mess her mother plans for her.

Summary
Olivia Donovan's mother wants her to trap a man into marriage because of his financial assets. Olivia all of her life has worked to stay in her mother's good graces because she has seen what a monster she can be to others that cross her path in the wrong way. But this time, Olivia refuses to marry a man she has never met and is more than likely some old geiser. So she hatches a plan, to escape one night, and find a stranger in a bar, get him drunk and marry the man and ruin her mother's plans. But what she doesn't expect is the man she catches, is sexy and kind and they have a wild night of getting married in Vegas and hot sex. But in the morning she finds out that she married THE Cameron Banks and all of her work is for nothing....or is it? Will married to a Banks be different than she expect and find true freedom she has ever known?

What I Loved
Hot Commodity is pretty much what the title conveys but the story is so much deeper than what you see on the surface. The heroine has been abused and manipulated by her mother all of her life. And our hero while raised by loving parents, lost his wife to suicide and still blames himself and relies on alcohol. And even those these two live in the same world, they are so different from each other. Olivia is also having to discover who she is and what to do with her life and while Olivia and Cameron are trying to work through their own personal issues, there is also a marriage to worry about and what to do about it....should they get it annulled or stay married? But the longer Cameron puts off the paperwork for the annulment the more he wants to be with Olivia for good.

I really appreciated the story that is delivered here. And I completely see what the author was trying to convey into this story. I really enjoyed so much of this book. I was laughing all over the place though. The humor was beyond delightful and I couldn't get enough of it. Yet there were these moments that just strikes deep where you least expect it. I also love how the heroine is honest with the hero. She doesn't keep this big secret from him and I really appreciated that the conflict in their relationship were other aspects that had more deeper meaning for their relationship. I can't wait for the companion novel of the cousin's book.

What I Struggled With
There were some things that I struggled with. One this isn't the most polished story that this author has written. And some of the plot machinations was a bit "out there". I also wished we had a longer epilogue of Cameron's time after recovery.

Overall View
Hot Commodity was a delightful mix of heart, humor, and a unique marriage of convenience that will entertain from beginning to end.

Book Details (also in my shelves)
Sub Genre: Contemporary Romance
Character Types: Billionaire, Socialite Heroine
Themes: Family Bonds, Laughs, Addiction Recovery, Abusive Parentals, Las Vegas Wedding
Tropes: Marriage of Convenience

Book Perspective
1st POV

Relationship Conflict vs Plot Conflict
Relationship Conflict

Song This Book Inspires
Falls Apart by Sugar Ray

Recommendation For Reading Order
Yes

Steam/Spice Explanations

Steamin' up the room -the sexual content is more explicit in the language and tone, heavier amount of sexual scenes.