Review: Great story lots of sexual tension, okay writing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2014
Go to [...] to read my full review!What I Loved:There were a lot of great points in this book that kept me hooked while reading. I definitely didn’t know how everything was going to end as far as Brendan and his cousin Billy and what was going on at club Hush. There was definitely times where my heart was going a million beats per minute and I couldn’t wait to get to the next page to find out what happens next.The sex scenes between Brendan and Joella were freaking awesome and very very hot. It’s been a while since I read a book that had some really steamy lovemaking but this book happily filled that void. I loved Brendan’s hot temper and jealousy whenever Joella was even talking to other men it was definitely a very big turn on. I love protective alpha men and Brendan was definitely that when it came to Joella, as well as loving, loyal, and very sweet.I totally loved the fact that Joella was the one set to protect Brendan and find out what dirty business is going on in his club. I love that Joella at any moment could probably kick Brendan’s ass if he got out of line and knows how to defend herself. So many of these romance books have the female leads are portrayed as whiney or weak so it was refreshing to have a strong female lead this time around.Not So Much:I hate criticizing writing techniques because I do feel that it’s just a matter of opinion what kind of technique you like reading and what you don’t. Saying that, the way this book was written was not my favorite, but that's my opinion. I felt like a lot of the conversations were stilted and robotic instead of flowing naturally like real people talk. There was a lot of grammar mistakes as well as constant confusion of past tense and present tense. In one paragraph it would start past tense then two sentences it would switch to present tense and it just it just took my attention away from the scene I was reading. The story was filled to the brim with fractured sentences that sometimes didn’t make sense while other sentences just repeated what was just said and sounded redundant. I get that this is an ARC that was reading and I’m sure there is more editing to be done which is fine with me because this story was rough around the edges and just needs to be smoothed out a little.