Review: Must read! Worth the wait!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 22, 2014
4.5 STARSHere’s the deal with this book…the cover (HELLO Mike Thurston!) and the blurb (f’ing HOT!) put this book at the very top of my TBR list. I became an S.L. Jennings fan when I stumbled across FEAR OF FALLING. When TAINT was announced, it skyrocketed to most anticipated release of the year for me. I warned everyone close to me that once it was on my Kindle, the Do Not Disturb sign was up. This was no joke.Justice Drake is a sexpert. His business is teaching women the art of seduction and more importantly, the follow through. His clients are the rich and famous. Anonymity is of the highest priority—for both his clients and himself.Aaaand…Justice is an ass. He’s a professional, but an ass nonetheless. He’s blunt, he’s crude, and it’s a rude awakening to the women who are at his mercy to save their marriages. He lives and breathes this stuff, he’s seen the trophy housewives come and go, and he remains unaffected by them all.Then Allison Elliott-Carr enrolls in his program. Justice thinks he has her pegged as the typical privileged rich b*tch that he’s used to dealing with session after session. But Ally proves to be anything other than what he’s used to. She surprises him. She’s not like any of the others, and his reaction to her…well, he surprises himself. There are rules, yet he can’t resist breaking them when it comes to Ally. In the end, truths and secrets are revealed…and we learn why Justice Drake values his privacy so much.Even without the anticipation and my “Do Not Disturb” sign, I still would have read this book in one sitting. It’s different…it’s a different setting, and Justice is unlike any alpha male I’ve met so far. I really like Ally. She’s strong, smart, yet goofy…she and I could hang. Oh, and I fell hard for Justice Drake. Like “How do I write a review when I can’t think objectively?” kind of hard.The story itself is beautifully written, yet Jennings stays true to her characters. Written in Justice’s POV you see the grit and the turmoil, but I still laughed out loud during the lighter moments. I enjoyed the journey, watching how Ally affects him and watching how he is unwillingly changed by her. I like that the book wasn’t all sex from the start as one might expect. I love when an author creates that sexual tension—I think it makes it all even hotter. And, yeah, the sex was hot! The only criticism I have is that in the end, I was left with one unanswered question. It’s not a big deal to the story, and I can’t elaborate without spoiling the ending, but it’s just a little something that left me wondering.Taint is a love story like none I’ve read before. It had me messaging my friends practically ordering them to read it! I had so many reactions while reading…it made me angry at times but also made me laugh, swoon, pant, drool, sigh, and smile. As far as that missing piece I was talking about…I'm not-so-secretly hoping S.L. Jennings will write something from Ally’s POV that will fill in that blank for me! *fingers crossed*