Review: Once you go bad, you never go back…
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 21, 2014
And Tatum O’Shea most definitely went bad. I mean, you can’t get much badder (yes, I know that’s not a real word) than sleeping with your sister’s boyfriend. When you have a boyfriend as well. But just a touch from Jameson Kane releases all the lust Tate has been harboring for Jameson for the last two years, and there is no putting it back in its cage. Tate walks into Jameson’s apartment the poster child “Good Girl” and walks out of it a Vixen on a Mission. And that mission is to finally be and do what Tate wants, not what everyone else wants. F*ck the world—Live for Tate. That becomes her mission statement.Seven years later…Tate has gone from Harvard student to waitress and temp worker. And she’s loving every minute of it. Who needs a pretentious family who respects appearances more than your happiness? Who needs a college degree and buckets of money to be happy? Not Tatum. She’s wild and free and living the life she wants. She’s bad, and she doesn’t give two f*cks what others think about it.Then her world gets turned upside down once again when she is reunited with the man who changed it all in the first place.Tate couldn’t resist Jameson the first time. Will she be able to resist him years later? Does she want to? No man has lived up to what Jameson did to her body during that one night of forbidden passion. But can she handle playing his game? Because Jameson isn’t the Happily Ever After type. He’s not the sweet type. He’s not the gentle type. He’s the rough, tough, no-holds-barred, down-and-dirty type.Just like the new Tate.Will these two make the perfect pair, or will they bring about the destruction of mankind with their volatile sexual appetites and hardassery?This book is ROUGH! As in, the sex is ROUGH! Like needs a *WARNING* label ROUGH! There is absolutely NO GENTLE SEX in this book! It’s abusive and degrading, and I would’ve pecker punched Jameson the first night if he’d talked to me or treated me that way. But if it makes Tate hot, more power to her. To each her own, and all that.I was given an ARC of this book to read for an honest review. Despite the fact that Jameson is not my ideal man (AT ALL!) and Tate drove me crazy with her I’ll-do-what-I-f*cking-wantness, I thoroughly enjoyed the book. I didn’t want to put it down. Bizarre, I know, but still true. I was engrossed in their insane relationship that went against everything I look for in a romance, and I wanted to throw my phone when I realized I was going to have to wait for a follow-up book. I don’t know how Ms. Fantome managed to roofy me through my Kindle and make me like this against-my-norm book so much, but she somehow managed it. (I won’t demand an investigation if you promise to send me Book 2 as soon as it’s finished. *smiles cunningly*)There were some grammatical and punctuation errors in this book, including a whole section that was repeated in the prologue. Editing was actually the main the reason for my rating and would probably have decreased it further had the story not kept me up at night, gripping my phone. I will say, though, that the writing and flow of reading definitely improve as the book progresses. If you can push past the beginning—especially the prologue—I promise, it gets better.Book Boyfriend- No CheckAdmirable Heroine- No CheckHappily Ever After- To be determined… (if these two are even capable of something considered HEA)Yet, still a damn enjoyable read!I’ve been tempted by the Devil of Stylo Fantome’s creation, and I want more!