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Hotel Temptation #2
Undone
She's been a very good girl...now she's learning to be bad!
Ditched at the altar for being boring in bed, prim lawyer Maya Martin goes on a solo Amalfi Coast honeymoon with one goal in mind: proving her ex wrong! And when she meets tattooed, hard-bodied Charlie Teller he seems just the man for the job – he's so hot it's criminal! This Christmas Charlie will help Maya unleash her wild side...over and over again!
Ditched at the altar for being boring in bed, prim lawyer Maya Martin goes on a solo Amalfi Coast honeymoon with one goal in mind: proving her ex wrong! And when she meets tattooed, hard-bodied Charlie Teller he seems just the man for the job – he's so hot it's criminal! This Christmas Charlie will help Maya unleash her wild side...over and over again!
168 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 1, 2018
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Caitlin Crews
1,092 books593 followersCaitlin Crews discovered her first romance novel at the age of twelve, in a bargain bin at the local five and dime. It involved swashbuckling pirates, grand adventures, a heroine with rustling skirts and a mind of her own, and a seriously mouthwatering and masterful hero. The book (the title of which remains lost in the mists of time) made a serious impression. Caitlin was immediately smitten with romances and romance heroes, to the detriment of her middle school social life. And so began her life-long love affair with romance novels, many of which she insists on keeping near her at all times, thus creating a fire hazard of love wherever she lives.
Caitlin has made her home in places as far-flung as York, England and Atlanta, Georgia. She was raised near New York City, and fell in love with London on her first visit when she was a teenager. She has backpacked in Zimbabwe, been on safari in Botswana, and visited tiny villages in Namibia. She has, while visiting the place in question, declared her intention to live in Prague, Dublin, Paris, Athens, Nice, the Greek Islands, Rome, Venice, and/or any of the Hawaiian islands. Writing about exotic places seems like the next best thing to actually moving there.
She currently lives in Oregon with her animator/comic book artist husband and their menagerie of ridiculous animals.
Caitlin has made her home in places as far-flung as York, England and Atlanta, Georgia. She was raised near New York City, and fell in love with London on her first visit when she was a teenager. She has backpacked in Zimbabwe, been on safari in Botswana, and visited tiny villages in Namibia. She has, while visiting the place in question, declared her intention to live in Prague, Dublin, Paris, Athens, Nice, the Greek Islands, Rome, Venice, and/or any of the Hawaiian islands. Writing about exotic places seems like the next best thing to actually moving there.
She currently lives in Oregon with her animator/comic book artist husband and their menagerie of ridiculous animals.
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December 26, 2018
Undone by Caitlin Crews is the second story in her Hotel Temptation series. It follows a group of men who find themselves in the startling position of being half brothers, a discovery that follows their father’s death (a man none of them knew) and the inheritance of several of his hotels worldwide. In Unleashed, Thor Ragnarsson lived up to his Viking forbears reputation with his sizzling romance with an American professor at his Icelandic hotel. Now, his American half brother Charlie finds his life turned upside down by his new found wealth, and a visiting tourist looking for a way to forget her troubles.
When Canadian socialite and high class lawyer Maya Martin gets ditched on the way to the altar, she sees no reason not to take advantage of their honeymoon plans and get away from all the questions by taking their planned trip (solo) to the Italian Amalfi coast. Her ex had said she was boring in bed so she aims to prove him wrong and what better way than to sleep with the sinfully sexy hotel employee she finds tending to some repairs.
Charlie Teller never expected to end up the owner of a high class hotel in Europe. His roots are much more humble and dangerous – biker gangs and revenge and retaliation are more his style from his life in America. But he’s been able to leave all that behind and loves nothing more than tinkering around his new property. When Maya signals her interest, he’s quite happy to oblige and show her the time of her life, expecting that their fling will be short lived. Maya makes him examine his choices, the past and the present ones, and gives him reason to hope for a better future. Can he convince her to be part of it?
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When Canadian socialite and high class lawyer Maya Martin gets ditched on the way to the altar, she sees no reason not to take advantage of their honeymoon plans and get away from all the questions by taking their planned trip (solo) to the Italian Amalfi coast. Her ex had said she was boring in bed so she aims to prove him wrong and what better way than to sleep with the sinfully sexy hotel employee she finds tending to some repairs.
Charlie Teller never expected to end up the owner of a high class hotel in Europe. His roots are much more humble and dangerous – biker gangs and revenge and retaliation are more his style from his life in America. But he’s been able to leave all that behind and loves nothing more than tinkering around his new property. When Maya signals her interest, he’s quite happy to oblige and show her the time of her life, expecting that their fling will be short lived. Maya makes him examine his choices, the past and the present ones, and gives him reason to hope for a better future. Can he convince her to be part of it?
For more of this review please visit Harlequin Junkie: https://harlequinjunkie.com/review-un...
A copy of this story was provided by the publisher for review.
April 3, 2021
#2 in the Hotel Temptation romance series
This was my favorite in the trio. Maya's fiance backs out on the day of their wedding because he loves her best friend, the maid of honor. Maya is tough and strong on the outside, but she can't handle the pity, so she goes on her honeymoon trip to Italy on her own. Since Ethan's biggest complaint was that she was vanilla in bed, she is ready to go a little crazy when she gets there. On the first day she sees a handsome worker and, unbelievably to her, has sex with him in a small shed. As days go by and she steps back from her stressful and high-energy life, she finds herself relaxing and enjoying the peace, including time with Charlie. Turns out, of course, that he's one of the St. George brothers, and he owns the hotel. There are a number of issues--Maya's sense of betrayal and her feeling of being trapped in her former stilted life, Charlie's need to prove himself despite all the publicity around his father's will, and other things. But I loved their immediate connection and their feeling of oneness despite everything around them. I liked that Maya kept referring to him as "bright" and "more"--he is color in her formerly black and white world. But she doesn't lose her backbone, having some entertainingly snippy conversations with Ethan and Lorrain and even Charlie, when they're on the outs. But the relationship was moving forward throughout, steady and sure, and I really liked them together. Since I began this trilogy with Book #3 (which is what prompted me to go back and read the first two), I'm done with this series. But I've become a big Caitlin Crews fan and will continue to follow her and read her other books.
This was my favorite in the trio. Maya's fiance backs out on the day of their wedding because he loves her best friend, the maid of honor. Maya is tough and strong on the outside, but she can't handle the pity, so she goes on her honeymoon trip to Italy on her own. Since Ethan's biggest complaint was that she was vanilla in bed, she is ready to go a little crazy when she gets there. On the first day she sees a handsome worker and, unbelievably to her, has sex with him in a small shed. As days go by and she steps back from her stressful and high-energy life, she finds herself relaxing and enjoying the peace, including time with Charlie. Turns out, of course, that he's one of the St. George brothers, and he owns the hotel. There are a number of issues--Maya's sense of betrayal and her feeling of being trapped in her former stilted life, Charlie's need to prove himself despite all the publicity around his father's will, and other things. But I loved their immediate connection and their feeling of oneness despite everything around them. I liked that Maya kept referring to him as "bright" and "more"--he is color in her formerly black and white world. But she doesn't lose her backbone, having some entertainingly snippy conversations with Ethan and Lorrain and even Charlie, when they're on the outs. But the relationship was moving forward throughout, steady and sure, and I really liked them together. Since I began this trilogy with Book #3 (which is what prompted me to go back and read the first two), I'm done with this series. But I've become a big Caitlin Crews fan and will continue to follow her and read her other books.
December 3, 2018
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I never know quite what to expect when I read a Harlequin Dare novel, some have been quite good, some not so much, and I was hoping that this novel, the second in Caitlin Crews' Hotel Temptation series, would live up to the rather high standard she set in the first novel in this series, Unleashed, but for several reasons, which I'll explain, Undone didn't, and it left me wanting what was there was an abundance of in the previous novel, which is more of an emotional connection to the two primary characters in this novel, Maya and Charlie. It gets a 3.5 star rating from this reader.
Maya is a hard working, dedicated and brilliant lawyer, working for one of the top legal firms in Toronto. She comes from a rather staid and unemotional family with extremely high expectations of all their offspring; her sister, Melinda, is a physician. The pattern for Maya's life has been well thought out and well planned--marriage, a partnership at the firm, children eventually, and a nice, safe, secure, and rather predictable future with Ethan, her fiance.
When we first meet Maya, she's moments away from walking down the aisle to marry Ethan, another attorney at the same law firm, when he somehow manages to see the bride before the wedding, despite those who tell him it's bad luck to see the bride before she walks down the aisle, but what Ethan has to tell her can't wait until then. What he tells her is that he's not going to be waiting down the aisle--he's fallen in love with Lorraine, Maya's best and pretty much her only friend who she chose over her own sister as her maid of honor. As if that wasn't betrayal enough, when Maya asks why, Ethan tells her that she doesn't satisfy his sexual needs, and that she's too bland, boring and vanilla in bed for him to tie himself to for the rest of his life, but that Lorraine better suits his needs.
The nicely mapped-out future Maya thought she was going to have just crashed and burned in a double betrayal--her fiance and her best friend. Interestingly, while she's certainly angry and upset with both of them, she doesn't appear to be brokenhearted at this sudden turn of events, and in short order, despite her family's objections and willingness to coddle and console her, she decides to head off to her honeymoon destination, a month on the Amalfi coast of Italy, alone. After almost 24 hours of travel, she arrives and is utterly enchanted by this small, charming and picturesque town, carved into the hillside, rising up from the sea, which is where she meets the other main character in this novel, Charlie Teller.
Charlie considers himself no stranger to beautiful women, he considers himself an expert. He's big, tall, muscular, dominant and blonde, and no sooner does he set eyes on Maya that he can't wait to gets his hands and body on and in her. Raised in Texas, in a rough and tough environment, one year ago, Charlie learned that the anonymous man who impregnated his mother all those years ago, forcing her into marriage with his jailbird biker stepfather, was none other than one of the wealthiest men in the world, Daniel St. George, a name you'll recognize if you've read the first book in this series, the same man who fathered Thor Ragnarsson, the hero in Unleashed, as well as fathering several other bastard children, whom I assume we'll encounter in upcoming installments in this series. At his death, Daniel St. George left Charlie the hotel in Italy and the money he'd need to make a go of running it.
When Maya spots shirtless Charlie. working outside the hotel, she assumes he's one of the groundskeepers or maintenance men employed there, and she finds herself as attracted to gorgeous and hunky Charlie as he is to her, and after sharing just a few words, he leads her to a small, private garden shed where the sex is hot enough to burn down the hotel. In fact, Charlie likes the fact that Maya doesn't have a clue who he is, and he's in no hurry to tell her, in fact, he never does tell her--she learns that juicy piece of information from a third party much later in the novel.
If you've never read one of Ms. Crews' novels, you'll soon find out that she can write a sex scene hot enough to make you run to turn on your air conditioner, even in winter, and she does that repeatedly in this novel, and it's what I've come to expect from a book in the Harlequin Dare line. The downside of all that sex is that these two characters rarely spend any time together actually getting to know one another. There's plenty of snark and sass between them, but no real relationship building. While there's an overabundance of internal dialogue, mostly Maya's, which is how we get to know these characters, as a reader I felt somewhat disconnected from them, and aside from all the steamy sex, didn't feel or see the basis for a true, deep connection between them.
Since I don't do spoilers, I won't disclose what happens once Maya finally learns the truth about Charlie's identity, but this is a romance novel after all, so you already know that there's going to be an HEA ending ahead, but for this reader, that ending seemed a little too abrupt, came a little too late, and while there was much talk about keeping things real between Charlie and Maya, there simply wasn't enough time, given the short page count of Dare novels, to make their relationship seem real to this reader, and because they never really learned much about each other, I couldn't see this pairing lasting forever.
While this is an engaging and sexy short read, in my opinion, the Dare format doesn't allow Ms. Crews to do what she does best, give us characters with real depth, real issues, and with real emotional attachments both to each other and to the reader.
Maya is a hard working, dedicated and brilliant lawyer, working for one of the top legal firms in Toronto. She comes from a rather staid and unemotional family with extremely high expectations of all their offspring; her sister, Melinda, is a physician. The pattern for Maya's life has been well thought out and well planned--marriage, a partnership at the firm, children eventually, and a nice, safe, secure, and rather predictable future with Ethan, her fiance.
When we first meet Maya, she's moments away from walking down the aisle to marry Ethan, another attorney at the same law firm, when he somehow manages to see the bride before the wedding, despite those who tell him it's bad luck to see the bride before she walks down the aisle, but what Ethan has to tell her can't wait until then. What he tells her is that he's not going to be waiting down the aisle--he's fallen in love with Lorraine, Maya's best and pretty much her only friend who she chose over her own sister as her maid of honor. As if that wasn't betrayal enough, when Maya asks why, Ethan tells her that she doesn't satisfy his sexual needs, and that she's too bland, boring and vanilla in bed for him to tie himself to for the rest of his life, but that Lorraine better suits his needs.
The nicely mapped-out future Maya thought she was going to have just crashed and burned in a double betrayal--her fiance and her best friend. Interestingly, while she's certainly angry and upset with both of them, she doesn't appear to be brokenhearted at this sudden turn of events, and in short order, despite her family's objections and willingness to coddle and console her, she decides to head off to her honeymoon destination, a month on the Amalfi coast of Italy, alone. After almost 24 hours of travel, she arrives and is utterly enchanted by this small, charming and picturesque town, carved into the hillside, rising up from the sea, which is where she meets the other main character in this novel, Charlie Teller.
Charlie considers himself no stranger to beautiful women, he considers himself an expert. He's big, tall, muscular, dominant and blonde, and no sooner does he set eyes on Maya that he can't wait to gets his hands and body on and in her. Raised in Texas, in a rough and tough environment, one year ago, Charlie learned that the anonymous man who impregnated his mother all those years ago, forcing her into marriage with his jailbird biker stepfather, was none other than one of the wealthiest men in the world, Daniel St. George, a name you'll recognize if you've read the first book in this series, the same man who fathered Thor Ragnarsson, the hero in Unleashed, as well as fathering several other bastard children, whom I assume we'll encounter in upcoming installments in this series. At his death, Daniel St. George left Charlie the hotel in Italy and the money he'd need to make a go of running it.
When Maya spots shirtless Charlie. working outside the hotel, she assumes he's one of the groundskeepers or maintenance men employed there, and she finds herself as attracted to gorgeous and hunky Charlie as he is to her, and after sharing just a few words, he leads her to a small, private garden shed where the sex is hot enough to burn down the hotel. In fact, Charlie likes the fact that Maya doesn't have a clue who he is, and he's in no hurry to tell her, in fact, he never does tell her--she learns that juicy piece of information from a third party much later in the novel.
If you've never read one of Ms. Crews' novels, you'll soon find out that she can write a sex scene hot enough to make you run to turn on your air conditioner, even in winter, and she does that repeatedly in this novel, and it's what I've come to expect from a book in the Harlequin Dare line. The downside of all that sex is that these two characters rarely spend any time together actually getting to know one another. There's plenty of snark and sass between them, but no real relationship building. While there's an overabundance of internal dialogue, mostly Maya's, which is how we get to know these characters, as a reader I felt somewhat disconnected from them, and aside from all the steamy sex, didn't feel or see the basis for a true, deep connection between them.
Since I don't do spoilers, I won't disclose what happens once Maya finally learns the truth about Charlie's identity, but this is a romance novel after all, so you already know that there's going to be an HEA ending ahead, but for this reader, that ending seemed a little too abrupt, came a little too late, and while there was much talk about keeping things real between Charlie and Maya, there simply wasn't enough time, given the short page count of Dare novels, to make their relationship seem real to this reader, and because they never really learned much about each other, I couldn't see this pairing lasting forever.
While this is an engaging and sexy short read, in my opinion, the Dare format doesn't allow Ms. Crews to do what she does best, give us characters with real depth, real issues, and with real emotional attachments both to each other and to the reader.
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December 1, 2018Miniseries: Hotel Temptation
February 11, 2019
I don't know who recommended this one to me, but I really liked idea of the premise. The execution, on the other hand, left something to be desired.
I've been reading romance pretty regularly now for over a year, and I've come to learn that the alpha male heroes are really not for me. Charlie is a douchebag alpha male that replaces all emotions with sex, and solves all of his problems with sex. Maya is a "strong female character" hotshot lawyer lady that just needs Charlie to teach her how to lean on a man, by which I mean sit on his dick. I kept hoping for some sort of emotional connection to form between the two main characters, but it never did. Then they jump into getting married after screwing around for 5 minutes. I was very disappointed in this one.
I've been reading romance pretty regularly now for over a year, and I've come to learn that the alpha male heroes are really not for me. Charlie is a douchebag alpha male that replaces all emotions with sex, and solves all of his problems with sex. Maya is a "strong female character" hotshot lawyer lady that just needs Charlie to teach her how to lean on a man, by which I mean sit on his dick. I kept hoping for some sort of emotional connection to form between the two main characters, but it never did. Then they jump into getting married after screwing around for 5 minutes. I was very disappointed in this one.
January 30, 2019
Man, I am so impressed by this novella. I was a bit concerned that Crews wouldn't get me invested in the couple's HEA because of the length of the story, but rest assured she did.
I really love Maya and Charlie. Crews write such a compact and delightful story. I fully believed everything and really was into the characters. I cannot say much more than I love the balance between their sexual chemistry and their personal differences. I never felt bothered by their angst. It all worked together really well. I'm excited to read her other books.
I really love Maya and Charlie. Crews write such a compact and delightful story. I fully believed everything and really was into the characters. I cannot say much more than I love the balance between their sexual chemistry and their personal differences. I never felt bothered by their angst. It all worked together really well. I'm excited to read her other books.
September 14, 2020
This was a quick and steamy read. Charlie hated commitment, and Maya was all about plans. Things take a turn for the worse for Maya when her carefully planned wedding is ruined when her fiancee left her at the altar. She went to Italy, met Charlie who she thought was a handyman but really owned the hotel she was staying at, and had an impromptu fling. They were both afraid of feelings, but in the end, I loved that Charlie chased after her. Plus, he made the book with all his rough edges.
May 14, 2019
Part 2 of the Hotel Temptation, Charlie Teller, inherits a luxurious hotel along the Amalfi Coast. Maya Martin, an attorney from Toronto, is to spend her honeymoon at the hotel. Problem—she was stood up at the altar! Interesting way to start a relationship.
January 29, 2019
Enjoyed the interaction between this couple and how they challenge each other to be real
November 8, 2020
3.5 stars
Ayyyy sexy times + emotional baggage? SIGN ME UP.
Ayyyy sexy times + emotional baggage? SIGN ME UP.
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