His Good Girl

by Eve Newton

She is my downfall. He is my poison. But our forbidden love is inevitable. Logan When Serena Wakefield is hired as my assistant, she drops into my life, forcing me to notice her. When I inadvertently praise her, she laps it up, begging for more, but she is forbidden. Innocent, sweet and gentle, she doesn’t belong in my world. It’s dangerous and deadly, but as much as I need to, I can’t stay away.
Serena Fifteen years his junior, I know Logan Carter is off-limits to me. Seductive, aloof and dangerous, he is the most in eligible bachelor in the city. But when he utters those two words to me, I’m lost to him. He unlocks a desire in me that was previously unknown, and I would crawl over broken glass to please him. His Good Girl is a dark, age gap, praise romance with forced proximity, forbidden romance, and a secret society that will demand your soul. Ends in an HEA. Contains triggers and content warnings.

Genres: Dark, Dark Romance, Romance, Smut, Book Club, Forced Proximity, Contemporary

368 pages, Paperback

Published April 4, 2023

About the author

Eve is a USA Today Bestselling Author with a specialty for steamy romance with strong female leads.

She lives in the UK, with her husband and five kids, so finding the time to write is short, but definitely sweet. Eve has a number of series, both completed and on the go and hopes to release some new and exciting projects, both paranormal and contemporary in the future, so stay tuned!

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Eve also writes under the name S.E. Traynor

Reviews

[april ♡ is probably reading smut]

0/5. First page is the hero having sex with OW. Not my cup of tea. DNF.

[Jess Morgan]

Today we delve into the trope of praise kink, which as far as I can tell amounts to the woman following the man's sexual instructions in the hopes of hearing him speak to her the way my husband speaks to our dog. Although I don't expect the phrase "WHO'S MY BIG SWEET FLOOFY DOOOOOOOF?" to appear anywhere in this book. Nor do I expect the woman to be further rewarded with bacon.

The preface to Eve Newton's His Good Girl comes with a warning:

If you are easily triggered, don't proceed and don't yuk on other people's yum, because that's not cool, 'kay? 'Kay.

I'm not easily triggered, Eve. But I'm very easily amused.



She also notes that "Logan is a morally grey character whose only redemption is his love for Serena." Ah, delightful. What's self-reflection or mental health treatment when you've got the power of love on your side? Cue the Huey Lewis.

We open with Logan fucking some lady named Shelley, which she wanted in order to ascend within the ranks of one of those secret weird fucking societies that book billionaires love. He wore his Hugo Boss suit for the occasion. Not during the fucking, but in anticipation of it. I'd ask if Hugo Boss wants this kind of product placement, but considering how they first made their money, they're in no position to complain.

Logan is an ex-scholarship student who earned his billions by founding a law firm. My ass, he did. You don't see your brand-new firm attain white-shoe status in your own lifetime. He has to bag his current assistant for leaving her computer unlocked. Her name is Dolores, so we can assume she's a tech-dumb old biddy who has never been at the receiving end of his flogger. But maybe at the giving end....



This paves the way for Serena, who makes her living as a temporary admin assistant. Her "Uncle Q" got her the job. We can assume "Uncle Q" is Quentin, who we already know is head of "the Society." Why he put up his niece for this position, I can only wonder. (wonders) Ewwwwwwwww.

Serena arrives for her first day. The receptionist is a total bitch to her for no reason. Serena is a total bitch back. These books make me ever more grateful for my own coworkers. Serena has brushed up on her new boss:

...if the pictures are anything to go by, he is gorgeous. With dark hair and blue eyes like sapphires, I'm betting he falls into the has a giant dick category. I'd be disappointed if he didn't. Not that I intend to make a play for him, he's too old for a start and my boss for another.

I'm officially off dark-haired blue-eyed men in designer suits, and I don't care what they're packing. It's the default book billionaire look. If I ever see such a man in real life, I'll assume he came off the same assembly line as the fake ones.

Serena introduces herself to Logan. She's stammering and shy at first, but after he bluntly instructs her where to sit, she calls him an asshole under her breath and rudely brings him coffee. I didn't know it was possible to bring someone coffee rudely, but she pulls it off. In either case, she's not one of "the purring, panting seductresses" that Logan usually bangs, so he can only react one way.



I maintain that an attractive woman who simply behaved like a professional and treated him like an employer would break his brainstem. I can't tell you how badly I want to read that.

Later that day at Noisome, Grody & Swinish LLP, Serena gets a warning that there's a good chance of Logan making her cry. Then Logan's partner, John Jeffers (his mother was a Jingleheimer-Schmidt), gropes Serena's ass immediately after introducing himself. Logan can guess this is what happened from Serena's expression, but John claims she came on to him. Logan intends to pursue this further, but not in the way he should:

The thought of his pudgy hands splayed out on her delicate skin makes me want to rip his fucking head off. It's this anger which suddenly makes me curious as to whether she has a man in her life. I need to know. I need to know so I can remove them permanently from her sphere. I want her isolated, fearful, mine, as I shatter her into a million pieces and walk away, satisfied that she will never be the same again.



He calls his private investigator. Drink. Facts on Serena: privileged background, didn't finish university, possibly estranged from her family, lives in a rundown area, no boyfriend evident. Logan is well aware that she's Quentin's niece, so fucking her is out of the question. Instead he intends to find someone who looks like her and "unleash the debauched soul that resides within me to ease the craving I have for her. One slice of the blade at a time."

Knife play was another one of Eve's warnings, so I'm not shocked to see it implied here. Actually, I'm rather impressed that someone was willing to go there. Most "kinky" romances are too vanilla for anyone to take seriously, even nonkinksters.



Logan's investigator didn't uncover that Serena was a victim of teacher molestation at age 13. This took place in a closet, so she has strong claustrophobia. To this day it takes her a long time to trust a man before having sex with him. This has only happened once. Yet we're setting up for her to give herself to a man who's into knives. What was that I said again?

What's... mental health treatment when you've got the power of love on your side?

Logan has been ordered to go kill Shelley for... some reason. He makes it look like a robbery by ransacking her apartment and stealing some jewelry. At least he does his own dirty work. A less respectable book billionaire would have hired some unfriendly Slavic fellow to do it for him.

Serena has befriended Rue, the once-bitchy receptionist, who has already pointed out the "grumpy/sunshine" dynamic that Serena has with Logan. Those were her words. Little does she know that it's more like "cold-blooded murder/sexual abuse victim," but I guess that doesn't sell. Rue invites her out with some girls to a restaurant, which also happens to be Logan's favorite steak joint. We're in a fictional city for this story, but if its size is anywhere close to that of Toronto, this shouldn't happen. Rue and her friends insist that Serena is visually pleasing and Logan may well be inclined to insert himself in her. Best of all, he'd be "jealous and possessive" over her.



Serena goes to the bathroom, where she's accosted by Paul, a very short-lived fling who didn't relax her enough to get to sex. And if he thinks this is going to help... well, he probably doesn't care. Logan gets rid of him. He makes Serena promise not to go for such losers again, and when she agrees, he says "Good girl."



That's it. It was that simple the entire time. Two words are enough to bring about a sexual reawakening. I'm going to ask my therapist if she can erase my clinical depression by saying "The Aristocrats!"

Logan murders Paul. Quentin informs him that his murder of Shelley may have been less successful.



Why is Logan the way he is? Because he saw his parents die. Bruce Wayne dealt with that by thwarting criminals, not becoming one. (And, no, we are not wading into the "Is Batman as much a villain as his enemies?" discourse today.) Quentin has found the knife used in that murder so Logan can test it for DNA. What are the fucking odds.

Meanwhile, Serena tries to jill off to Logan, but her trauma isn't completely gone, so she doesn't finish. Maybe actual sex with him will do the trick! That doesn't happen today, but he does say "Perfect" when she does something right, which should take care of her for the next few months. You wonder she didn't let one rip in the middle of class after one of her less rapey teachers gave her an A. Helps to be a dark-haired blue-eyed man in a designer suit, I suppose.

Logan's private investigator has taken the liberty of hiding cameras in Serena's apartment so Logan can have a show. That, finally, gets us to the sex, during which he says "good girl" five times and after which he says it a sixth. I'm going to pay the investigator to sneak a poor-quality French-language tape into his bedroom so he can drive her insane with omelette du fromage. Serena still isn't fully healed, so even though she gets through the sex with no trouble, she freaks out and runs off at the end of it, largely since he didn't actually obtain her consent before he started. Not that it matters:

He just took what he wanted before I knew what was happening. But that doesn't mean I didn't want it.... he has twisted my soul around and ensured that I can't live without him.

Oh, girl, you are so not ready for this.



Logan has implicitly made Quentin aware of his lust for Serena. Quentin not only arranges for Serena to lose her job, he gets her banned from the building so she can't see Logan again. This sends Serena on a near-suicidal bender. Quentin at least admitted that the fault for putting her in Logan's orbit was his. For this, though, I don't expect him to show nearly as much accountability. Sure enough, Quentin goes over to Logan's place and beats him to a bloody pulp. Which makes me like him a little more.

Logan hates himself "for, let's call a spade a spade here, raping her." But we know from being in her head that she simply gave in to mutual lust, so we're left constantly asking "But did you?" It's not a comfortable question. For her part, Serena is extremely unsettled by Logan's ability to make her want to "crawl over broken glass" for him. So we're agreed that they should stay away from each other forever, right?

They're not going to stay away from each other at all. Like we can't tell.

Logan's investigator found his parents' murderer, who currently resides in a supermax prison. Logan wants the guy killed in prison. That's hard, so he decides to "use [his] influence to reopen the case," because "Serena would want me to do this the right way." I think we've established that she's ready to throw the right way to the wind if this guy is involved. Sure enough:

I'm pretty sure I love Logan. It's different from how it was with my ex. He was familiar, we fell into a relationship from being friends first. With Logan, it's the exact opposite. It's wild and all-encompassing. It's brutal and gut-wrenching. Savage and seductive.



You don't know him. He doesn't know you. You had dubious sex one time. You admit his psychological grip on you makes you willing to do things you'd rather not do. Even if your ex is your ex, your relationship with him was much closer to love than whatever the hell this is.

Oh, and apparently Serena is actually Quentin's daughter.

Random.

Logan and Serena have another chance encounter at the exact same restaurant from before. Serena is chatting with some guy. Logan is perturbed:

"You belong to me, Serena, but if I can't have you, no one can. Do you understand me, or do I have to drag you back to my apartment and chain you up to keep you away from men who want to bury their cocks in your pussy?"

Rue tries to stop him. Logan drags Serena away by the arm. Serena tells Rue everything's cool and she can go. Give up on this one, Rue. It's not worth the trouble.



Logan and Serena fuck in an alley. "Good" count: 10. Serena decides she'll be happy for him to fuck her wherever and whenever he feels like it, because she'll always feel like it. Not if he doesn't find a synonym for "good" before it gets overplayed. Might I recommend "capital" or "tiptop" or "stupendous?"

Rue is involved in the secret secret secretty Society of Secrets and Secrecy herself. She has dirt on Quentin that might provoke Serena to cut him out of her life. Logan wants the dirt. She won't give it up. She does promise to help Serena facilitate her super-secret secret seeeeeeeeeeeeeecret relationship with Logan. What she's playing at, I can't really tell, but I bet she'll turn out to be a villain. This book ain't subtle. Then Logan and Serena have phone sex. "Good" count: only three, but he throws in two "perfects," which are each worth about four "goods." New record!

Quentin finds a new assistant for Logan who looks exactly like Serena. Her name even rhymes with "Serena."



He's not having it. He's going to have Rue's father, Viktor, help him destroy Quentin. This is why you shouldn't join secret societies, kids. Not even FIFA is this corrupt.

Time to go to a masquerade ball. If there are any crazy rich people reading this, I have to ask, how many masquerade balls do you people actually attend? Logan chats with Viktor, who offers him leadership over a "sector" of the secret secret secret secret secret baked beans secret secret secret society. He's pleased, but he manages to lose track of Serena during this conversation. She's busy having her tits licked by John Jeffers, very much against her will. Logan finds them, blames Serena for not fighting back, immediately corrects himself, and slits John's throat. So nice to see him understand how traumatized people can freeze up in situations like that. The tit-licking, I mean. I'm sure seeing a man get unlifed as swiftly and brutally as that won't affect her at all.

She does want to confirm if he's done this before, and why. This leads him to reveal the secret-to-the-power-of-30 society, of which Rue is another sector head. Rue's parents want her to join. She spills the bean about Quentin being her father, which complicates things somehow. And also the "cleaner" who got rid of John's body knows she was there, and Rue's parents blame Logan for something, and I'm so confused and uninterested at the same time that I really don't know what to do with myself.



Logan slices Serena's clothes off and teases her with the blade once. Well... it's something. Then he makes her reenact her molestation while thinking of him, which somehow is so much more disturbing. Some psychiatrist has probably had his license revoked for trying that one. And then they carve their names into each other.

Um. Okay. Wow. Kinksters, are permanent carvings allowed to be part of the deal?

Some other guy shoots Quentin in front of Logan. Done and dusted. But for once the guy is the one held at knifepoint at the 11th hour. By who? Shelley's identical twin, Kelly. Shelley has indeed been dead this whole time. Logan never realized they switched places throughout their sessions with him.

Serena is a blond woman whose surname is Wakefield.

Someone she loves is under the threat of a homicidal identical twin.

Oh, the memories.



Serena unlifes Kelly with the help of a staircase. That's enough to get her into Secretpalooza, which apparently requires new entrants to make their bones. She's very happy about this. I don't know why, since Logan will gladly unlife anyone who so much as forgets to remove the onions from her salad, but whatever. Then we find out that Serena's real mother died in childbirth and the woman she thought was her mother, actually her aunt, had to keep it a secret her whole life. This adds nothing to the story whatsoever. Quentin could have been her biological uncle all along, and it would play out basically exactly the same.

Serena crawls across a pile of literal broken glass so Logan can fuck her while she bleeds. I legitimately wanted to throw up reading this scene. Hard limit. And I can't tell if she actually wants any of this stuff, or if she's so unhealthily attached with him that she'll sublimate her own preferences just to keep him interested. Which is exactly the same as actually wanting it, if you believe these books.

They get married and Serena joins the secret people.



And they agreed to remain childfree. Thank fucking God. No electrical outlet will be covered in that penthouse again.

Well, if you're into this stuff, I hope His Good Girl delivers. What did I get out of it? Not nearly as much mirth as I would have liked, and far too much "Wait, WHAT?" Very disappointing. The vanilla authors know what I want a lot better.

[Misty · Rating 1 out of 5]

Disappointed

The first 40% of this book was really good, I couldn't put it down. Then something happened, it was like a totally different person was writing. I had to go back and see if I had accidentally skipped a chapter or something. I don't even know how or why I finished reading it.

[Cassie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Boss romance
Quick read
Female lead has SA trauma that affects her mentally
The mmc does have a sexy mouth on him

I wanted to love this book, I really really did, but it fell flat for me. I hate giving not so stellar reviews as I understand the feelings that authors put into their stories and am grateful that they give us a place to escape to. This was not my favorite book, but is not the worst I've read. That being said, I understand that this is a short read and a lot has to be fit into the pages. I'm used to very dark reads so if you want a lighter dark read, then this would probably be good for you.

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The book started off good and promising and by not even the middle, things happened so quickly with not really much lead up that it took away from what could have been a good story.

Serena, is the female lead and her mental state is all over the place. One moment she's a strong woman and then the next she's cowering. She comes from a rich family that cuts her off when she decides she does not want to live under her parents roof anymore and wants to be on her own. She picks up temp jobs until her "uncle," Quentin, a sector of a society the mmc is a part of, gives her a job at Logans, the mmc, law firm.

Logan is the male lead. He's a alpha hole that uses women for his satisfaction and does not get attached, but instantly becomes obsessed with the fmc.

Logans obsession went into overdrive when he heard her masturbate and his name slip from her mouth (camera in her apartment). Serena wanted badly to have sex with him but when she came into work early, he called her into his office and took it. In the scene she says "no" multiple times even though she said she wanted it and then he leaves because she's upset and she cries and keeps telling him how she wasn't good when he took it....

The "uncle," Quentin, very quickly finds out about the obsession - the same day they slept together - and tells both of them to keep away from each other and makes her quit her job that he got her. Then she goes home and gets drunk, calls her friend to tell her bye, and tries to off herself without actually offing herself...... It was kind of bizarre. When the uncle finds out what she did, he goes back to Logans house and beats the crap out of him saying that it was Logans fault for what Serene did, even though the uncle's the one that says she couldn't see Logan anymore...

Logan calls and checks on Serena, but she acts like she doesn't want to talk and tells him "bye" and hangs up, then a couple of days later gets upset that he hasn't called.. She finally goes out with her friend, Rue, and gets hit on by a few guys all while Logan is standing outside the bar watching. When her and her friends come out he confronts her and says that she's his and if he can't have her no one can and then proceeds to get into a fight with the guy that was hitting on her. It was a lot in such a very short time. Then he drags her off and screws her in an alley and then takes her back to his place. After lots of "you are mine" and sweet promises from Logan, she leaves and goes to Rues place, three floors down from Logans. Rue then barges to Logan's house and lets him know he's being audited by the secret club they're a part of and she's the one doing the auditing.

Later that same week, Logan, decides to go into work and sees he has a new secretary - he was already told by both Quentin and Serena that she no longer had a job there - and the secretary looks just like Quentin's "niece," Serena, eye color and all. Logan freaks out, starts causing a scene, and then makes a call.

Skip forward, there is a Christmas ball for the law firm that Logan owns and Quentin a head chairman of. Serena is Rues plus one and of course everyone is there. Logan finds out he is getting positioned higher than Quentin in their special mob like society. He goes to talk to Rue and Serena, but Serena is gone. She ends up being caught by a perv that works at the law firm and is in the middle of being SA when Logan finds her and beats the guy up before killing him. He then takes her outside and she sinks to her knees and asks Logan for forgiveness for not fighting enough while being SA. 🫤 Then he apologized for her SA when she was younger and the SA that just happened, even though he did it to her in his office....

After the Christmas party fiasco, they go back to Logans place, have sexy times, and Rue comes up to check on them in the morning. This leads to an impromptu conversation about the secret society that Logan, Quentin, Rue and her parents are a part of. Of course, Serena freaks out -thats total Serena fashion - then she admits to Logan that she's in love with him and then wants to join the secret society. All this is right before she admits that she thinks "uncle Quentin" is actually daddy Quentin and her parents are actually her aunt and uncle - que dramatic theme music, dum dum DUUUUM! After the news Rue leaves and Logan helps Serena erase the memory of the SA she endured when she was younger - it was actually a sweet idea - and then he has her carve her name into his chest with a knife and then carves his name into her chest.

After this, Logan sets up a meeting with Quentin. Quentins guard dog Issac is there and when Logan thinks things may go south, Issac shoots Quentin and welcomes Logan into the higher ranking of the society.

Upon returning home, Logan steps off the elevator and into a very mad Shelley - an ex that was trying to use him and that he previously slit her throat but she lived and disappeared. You find out that it isn't actually Shelly - because she did die - but her twin, Kelly. She knocks Logan out and after a few words, chases Serena up the stairs. A struggle ensues between the two women and finally Serena musters the courage to fight back and kicks that b**** off balance and down the stairs.
Rues parents come over during cleanup and Rues mom convinces Serena to be a part of the society.

The book ends with sexy times, a marriage proposal, and Serena's abusers head delivered to her in a box as a gift from the society that she has newly became a part of.

[Kelly Parmelee · Rating 1 out of 5]

I love dark romances. I heed trigger warnings. But I still wasn't prepared for the left turn straight into the Grand Canyon this book took 38% in.

The FMC was molested by her teacher as a teenager and is sexually harassed by the MMC's law partner. The MMC is very angry about the latter incident. He even saves FMC from being sexually assaulted by her ex after he hears her telling him "NO" and is now thought of as a "savior". Then a couple chapters later MMC forcefully sexually assaults FMC on his desk after repeatedly being told "NO, I don't want this! I'm not ready!" Then afterwards she's in the bathroom and her co-worker friend discovers her and FMC tells friend, "It isn't rape because I'm attracted to him and had an orgasm even when I wasn't ready and told him no". Then proceeds to blame herself that his rape of her wasn't enjoyable for HIM because she wasn't enjoying being raped. ??????? THIS is our love couple we're supposed to root for to have a HEA???? F_____ NO. I've read dark romances with alpha male characters who can be "forceful" but when told NO they back off and don't resort to blatant sexual assault. And with females who don't blame themselves for not enjoying the sexual assault.

I was gobsmacked, horrified and just puzzled. After that I couldn't finish the book because I don't see how that kind of thing could be justified and swept under the rug if I kept on reading. And I couldn't root for this couple to have a HEA. I was really disgusted and disturbed and returned the book immediately. Avoid.

[DemetraP · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book started off really interesting and then went downhill.

Basically every man who meets the heroine tries to sexually assault her. Because she was previously molested as a child her reaction is to freeze when this happens. Hero kills the guys who touch her against her will.

SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER

The secret society the hero is in doesn't seem to do much except get people in trouble. Her uncle is really her dad and the uncle's bodyguard kills the uncle. He didn't want her and the hero to be together.

Her new best friend was undercover at the hero's law firm "auditing" him for a new position in the secret society. She just loves the heroine and is now best friends with her.

The heroine tries to commit suicide after her uncle/dad tells her the hero was just using her. He finds out she hurt herself and apologizes and checks on her repeatedly.

The book was very confusing and way too many people got murdered.

[Danireadsx · Rating 3 out of 5]

She is my downfall. He is my poison. Our forbidden love is inevitable. Logan When Serena Wakefield is hired as my assistant, she drops into my life, forcing me to notice her. When I inadvertently praise her, she laps it up, begging for more, but she is forbidden. Innocent, sweet and gentle, she doesn’t belong in my world. It’s dangerous and deadly, but as much as I need to, I can’t stay away.
Serena Fifteen years his junior, I know Logan Carter is off-limits to me. Seductive, aloof and dangerous, he is the most in eligible bachelor in the city. But when he utters those two words to me, I’m lost to him. He unlocks a desire in me that was previously unknown, and I would crawl over broken glass to please him. His Good Girl is a dark, age gap, praise romance with forced proximity, forbidden romance, and a secret society that will demand your soul. Ends in an HEA.

[Leopardwolf · Rating 5 out of 5]

Looking for Praise? Then you've found the book for you . Delicious, dark and decadent.
Logan's praise is spectacular
A love story that is dark and downright perfection in their devotion to each other.
The emotions are amazing with this one, I was taken on a rollercoaster of lust, love and utter devotion, with a side order of Secret Society business that is intriguing and enthralling.
The characters and what they go through are amazingly real and made my black heart feel so much.
The praise in this book is amazing and is throughout - not just a scene or two, but everywhere!!
Please read the description and the preface as this is a dark read so don't expect unicorn cuddles and fairy sprinkles!

[P.S. Afterdark · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF 21%

I did this. Then I did this. Then I did this. Then I did this. Then this happened. This happened. Then this happened.

^the above is the writing style for at least the first 20% of the book. So monotonous and dry… .,:;?!— (that’s some punctuation for the author, since they seem to have a shortage of everything besides periods).

This book reads like it was written by a 13 year old with way too much unsupervised access to the internet. The story itself wasn’t good/different enough from others like it to put up with the writing or make it worth the read either.

[Jordan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Look, this book is basically straight up 🌽. Not that I’m mad about it or anything, but the plot is… questionable.

Serena doesn’t think it’s questionable that her uncle tells her she has a job that she starts on Monday? Like… who gets jobs without ever applying or interviewing?!? Then when she does show up Logan acts like he has never seen a female before and goes all caveman. IDK it was just a little weird for me.

The slut in me loved all of the XXX scenes but as a book, the plot was missing a lot. I think it could have been good; I mean we had a big age-gap between these two characters, Logan is in this mafia style secret society, Serena is somewhat naïve but does have some trauma that I think is handled oddly… but again that is all just my opinion.

Personally, I wouldn’t recommend this book unless you just really wanna read straight smut.

[Zoe_isreading · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book, age gap with a praise kink are some of my fave tropes in books, I just wished the secret society aspect was delved deeper into. I also wish we got to see more of Serena in the society but I'm hoping with the second book we might! Definitely check this out if you're looking for a spicy read with a few twists in it!

[Miss Person · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked the first half of this, but started to get a bit bored. I feel like that’s my fault more than the author’s. The characters are intriguing, and I can see that there’s so much more story to tell. I think I have to take a palate-cleansing genre break first, but I would like to read more in the series.

[CB · Rating 1 out of 5]

REVIEW
Score: 1/5
POV: Dual
Heat Level: N/A
Tropes: Age Gap; Secret Society; grumpy/sunshine; “good girl” kink; lawyer MMC;


Got to their first sexual encounter and it was such poorly written trash I just couldn’t push through this anymore. This book read like it was written as a YA novel but is an erotica. It was all over the place. It just was not good.
DNF at 129/362; 37%

[Megan Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was good in that it was full of spice, praise, kinks, etc. That being said, the writing was a little strange... both FMC and MMC started to 'speak' differently, like they went from regular speaking to then sounding like they were from another era? It was weird. I read it all, wouldn't read it again and likely wouldn't recommend it to friends either.

[A.B. Shepherd]

DNF: 14%

I noped out when the H had the following thought about the h:

"I want her isolated, fearful, mine, as I shatter her into a million pieces and walk away, satisfied that she will never be the same again."

[Tiffany Michael · Rating 2 out of 5]

Spice was good, easy read. 2 stars because the writing was a little awkward at times, and I wouldn’t read it again. I don’t regret reading it, but it’s not a book I’ll mention to someone, as a recommendation.

[Ash Sprite · Rating 2 out of 5]

TBH I didnt finish this book which is rare for me. I got 80% through. It has too many ideas crammed into one book and still manages to have boring daily task filler. It has good ideas and really good twists it just needs to be refined.

[Gwen]

DNF. Wtf happened!?!? There was potential but somewhere along the way someone said fuck it and threw everything out the window. This went from 0 to 100 with no story, no plot, no explanation. Totally do not recommend. I'd give 0 stars for sure.

[Chelsea Allen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was such an easy read! Read in less than 24 hours. I loved this so much I just flew through it. I love the grumpy sunshine billionaire trope. There are quite a few trigger warnings but I didn’t feel like it was too graphic. If you like praise with the MC’s then this book is for you!

[Autumn Ward · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mid. Story mid. Good vocabulary. Could have been written better. Story feels rushed. Spice level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ scenes were good. 1 star because I have a praise k*nk and his praise was immaculate. 1 star for age-gap.

Crawling through glass scene kinda hot.

[nikki · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hot!!

If you love a possessive jealous man who just wants to protect his good girl then this is the book for you!! Can't wait for the 2nd book to see how they evolve

[Poppel · Rating 3 out of 5]

I finished it

It kept a quick pace, but had some really disjointed parts. Mostly finished it just to see how it ended.

[Kim Whitehead · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was okay.

[Nicole · Rating 1 out of 5]

The first part of this book had promise, then it got rushed and ridiculous. The connection she made about her mother was absurd. I skimmed last quarter of the book just to finish.

[Autumn · Rating 1 out of 5]

What in the Wattpad was that?!
DNF

[Melissa Hunter · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book had a really good beginning, but it didn't finish strong.

[Maria Karmonick]

Listen I love a good cnc trope.
But what I don't love is straight rape.
This whole thing was just a cringe fest. I don't even want to rate it.

[No Book Behind]

Dnf @40%
Started good, but then... just lost any sense to me...

[Lindsey Stillthatwitch · Rating 3 out of 5]

Is it a literary work of art ? No. Did it satisfy my praise kink ? Yes. Overall I enjoyed it.

[Lauren · Rating 1 out of 5]

I read this for book club so it was not my pick but the way the MMC handles certain trauma I found extremely problematic. The beginning was intriguing but then went downhill. This one was not for me.