Review: Overall I enjoyed myself
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 23, 2014
I picked up this bundle because of a tweet I saw. I went in thinking it was going to be super gushy sweet throughout, but it was kind of drama filled, with some head scratching characters, and a bunch of dirty sex. Shockingly I actually kind of enjoyed myself. Once I started it I couldn’t stop until I was done.Tess is determined to catch her husband in the act of cheating on her. This isn’t the first time she has caught onto him having an affair, but she knows if she can catch him in the act there is no way he can back track his way out of it. Right before she can scream out his name while he is baning his mistress on the balcony of a hotel she is grabbed from behind and silenced with a hand by Vincent Whitehorse…. Isn’t that name just freaking hot? I can already tell just by that alone that he is going to have a giant D. Anyway, Vincent is also there to see if his wife is having an affair, but he doesn’t want his wife to know the game is up.Vincent drags Tess to the local bar for a little sit down where they proceed to get wasted and of course have crazy mind blowing monkey sex. Vincent ask Tess not to let on she knows about the affair because he needs to tie up some lose ends before he too cuts his wife lose. He doesn’t want her to try and destroy his business and some charities that she is on the boards of just to spite him. Tess agrees to just telling her husband she needs time away so she doesn’t have to be around him any longer. As Vincent tries to get his life in order to free himself he can’t seem to get Tess out of his mind. He even goes to her work every night and makes sure she is getting home ok without her knowing.Vincent can only fight his attraction for Tess for so long and can’t stand the thought of anyone else wanting his Tess and wants to claim her publicly. While this is sweet and all, I had a few hang-ups that drove me nutty. While Vincent never sleeps with his wife again he does act like he loves her still to her face. Even kissing her and saying dirty things to her so she thinks she still has him. While I know he hates her because we get his point of view and he even says it makes him want to vomit, I still hated it! Plus, how did this alpha guy EVER put up with his cheating wife’s behavior? This chick was over the top self-centered that I couldn’t see anyone, especially an alpha male, ever liking her. I know the author played it like he only went alpha because of Tess and she brought it out in him, but I still had to scratch my head at that.While the story has a few things that made me clench my jaw, I enjoyed it for the most part. The heroine was kind of a push over and I really wanted her to grow a backbone. But the sex was dirty, nasty hot, and the drama held my attention well. I’m extremely curious about a few of the side characters. The writing is a little wobbly at points and could use a good cleaning up. It even started to have a little Kristen Ashley feel with the language when the hero went into alpha mode. I’m not sure why I really enjoyed myself so much, but I really did. I saw there is another book about the heroine’s best friend and one of the guys in this story, so I’m sure I’ll probably be reading it next.