Review: 4.5 Stars – Screw sleep! I’ll let the kids watch TV and eat hot dogs tomorrow.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2014
There has been so much chatter online about Taint from S.L. Jennings and I have to say they were right, this book is awesome!Taint is written in Justice Drake’s point of view. You read that right MALE POINT OF VIEW! I loved his inner monologues and all the lies that he told himself throughout this book. Being inside Justice’s head made this book hilarious.This doesn’t mean that I loved Justice at all times though. He does something in the beginning of this book that I was so mad and sad about. I like when the hero falls on his ass chasing the girl. The hero shouldn’t even be able to think about another woman he’s so wrapped up in our heroine. In the end Justice did make me fall in love with him. He had a nice mushy side once he was willing to accept his feelings.Plus honestly, did you see that cover? Scroll up and go look. Do you see that smirk? Hot, isn’t it? Yeah, I know. I was picturing that slight smirk while reading, it helped me get over his dumb moves earlier in the book.  I want to print that cover image off, pin it to my cork board above my computer and just stare at it all day. Heck I need a signed copy in paperback just so I can set it on my nightstandOur heroine Allison was ok. I don’t have many notes on her, which is actually a good thing. It means she didn’t spend half the story ticking me off like so many other heroines out there. Allison is in a tough position, but I thought she handled it with grace and to the best of her ability.There is a big twist in Taint, that I am not going to talk about, but I’ll just say it did not see that coming at all. It comes out of left field, but I loved it. It adds just that little bit of drama to the story to really make things sizzle.  Plus the lobster stuff.. swoon. Really you just have to read the book to know what I’m talking about and it’s worth it to find out, trust me.Okay, let’s talk the sex. That’s the important part right? First let me say for you tug scene lovers out there, we get two from Justice. Overall the sex was pretty hot, but I had a problem with some of the initial scenes. You see, I get protective of my heroes and I only want them with “the girl”. I don’t want to read about them and another girl whether it be present or past tense. I don’t want to know about past conquest, especially not in any kind of detail.  It takes a while before we get any hot scenes between our two main characters. Once they do, it’s worth it because the two of them together is HOT. I just wish we could have had those scenes earlier in the story.Ultimately, that is what kept this book from a full five star rating for me. It takes SOOOOO long for the couple to get together. Taint has a very original storyline which drew me in but after a while I felt like it was dragging on because I just wanted them to finally hook the freak up.I wish there had been an epilogue so we could really see Justice and Allison as an official couple, more than we were able to in what was provided. But who knows, maybe we’ll get a book two.