~Blurb~
Cole and Jade's story
Warning: Taboo, ménage, dirty talk, hot as f*ck.
Jade
I dated a mobster. A monster. A maniac.
He left me scarred, marred and done with men in general. The last thing I needed was another man in the very same lifestyle. I might let Cole Savage into my bedroom, but I can't let him into my heart.
Cole
She’s been hurt before. She thinks I'll hurt her again.
Problem is, I’m not the one who is trying to hurt her.
Her ex-boyfriend is a part of the Lucky Lucianos, an up-and-coming Italian mafia in New York city. He thought he could get away with what he did to her, but he won't be so lucky when I get my hands on him.
Warning: Taboo, ménage, dirty talk, hot as f*ck.
Jade
I dated a mobster. A monster. A maniac.
He left me scarred, marred and done with men in general. The last thing I needed was another man in the very same lifestyle. I might let Cole Savage into my bedroom, but I can't let him into my heart.
Cole
She’s been hurt before. She thinks I'll hurt her again.
Problem is, I’m not the one who is trying to hurt her.
Her ex-boyfriend is a part of the Lucky Lucianos, an up-and-coming Italian mafia in New York city. He thought he could get away with what he did to her, but he won't be so lucky when I get my hands on him.
~Book Review~
2.5 Stars
If you’ve read the first
book, Stepdaddy Savage, then you know
that Jade and Cole met at a dinner party at Graham and Dahlia’s house. Well
it’s a few years later till their paths cross again, and this time Cole is
determined to get her in his bed.
I’ll admit that I clicked on
this book to get more glimpses of Graham and Dahlia just as much as I was interested
in Jade and Cole. Turns out, Jade and Cole don’t have nearly the chemistry or
appeal as Graham and Dahlia did.
Told via Jade and Cole's alternating first person POV, Cole’s a little too caveman
for my tastes at times. He’s not as dark and suave as Graham. He comes off as a
big lug. This story is also more erotic
and less romance than the first one. As the description points out, it does
contain a ménage scene which frankly would have made a lot more sense in the beginning
when Cole and Dahlia are just fuck buddies and not after they become engaged! Yep,
you read that right; they have a threesome with his roommate, Carter, after they say 'I
love you' and he proposes. Again, I repeat, this is really an erotic tale more
than it’s a romance. On top of that, Cole’s inner monologues articulate ridiculous
things like, “Nothing says romance like anal,” which they engage in with his 12
inch cock that “almost smelled like cotton candy that sat in the sun too long”
(Jade’s words) and no lube beyond his spit. Lots of eye roll worthy moments in
this story for sure.
The first half of the book is
largely Cole and Jade fucking when they are supposed to be working. It actually
got a little boring after a while. I didn’t feel a special drawl between Jade
and Cole like I did with Dahlia and Graham. In fact, I only had one major problem with the first book that
I thought surely the authors wouldn’t be so unoriginal as to repeat that again in the
second. So imagine my disgust when around roughly 50% they rolled out the
heroine-almost-gets-raped troupe for the second time! Followed in the next
chapter by a sex scene because you know almost getting raped is so arousing. So
I’m just going to cut and paste from my review of book one where the exact same
scenario played out. If authors can’t come up with something better than
presenting the heroines as helpless victims of near rape, saved only at the
last second by her man, then they don’t deserve a truly original review either.
So here goes:
For authors who state in their bio that their
philosophy is “fun, sexy, smut” that is “original” and that they “won't give
you what you've already seen a million times before,” well they certainly missed
those goals with this scene. This plot device isn’t original and has been done
many times over. But more importantly, attempted
rape isn’t sexy! I’ve ranted about books
that use this unrealistic and unromantic plot climax in romance books before
and it bears repeating. Rape/attempted rape/sexual assault does not belong
in a romance novel and using it as simply a plot devices not only trivialized
the real problem of sexual abuse against women, but contributes to a rape
culture.
All in all, I think
Graham made book one, but the rest of the heroes in this series don’t have the same appeal. I’m
doubtful I’ll read the next book as the hints to Quinn's backstory do not appeal to me.
~Book 1 in the Savage People Series~
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