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Genre: Erotica/Erotic Romance, Romance
This RITA® Reader Challenge 2015 review was written by Noelia R. This story was nominated for the RITA® in the Erotic Romance category.
The summary:
He is everything I crave, all I desperately want—and he is everything I can’t have.
Evan Black embodies my every fantasy. He is brilliant, fierce, and devastatingly handsome. But he is also headstrong, dangerous, and burdened with secrets.
My family warned me to stay away, that I could never handle Evan’s dark dealings or scarred past. Maybe I should have listened. Maybe I should have run. But our desire is undeniable, and some temptations you just can’t fight.
And from the moment we touch—the passion between us consuming us both—I know that I will never be the same.
Here is Noelia R.'s review:
This book is an erotic contemporary romance that tells the story between Angie/Lina/Angelina and Evan. They know each other for years, they are in lust from the get go, but the resolution of their story is so choppy that you finish the book with the feeling than in a couple of years there is going to be a nasty divorce. So… not good, not good.
The book kicks-off in the middle of a funeral for Angie’s beloved uncle. Obviously, our Angie girl is beyond sorrow but is also very aware of the state of her lady parts near Evan. We don’t get to know what’s going on inside his head because the book is told in the first person but he comes off as very intense and brooding, as expected. And I don’t know about you, but the thing that would worry me the least in the middle of the funeral of someone I really loved is the state of my lady parts or the hunk I lust for. I started to really dislike these people.
After the funeral, they pursue an affair that is going to be temporary, just to get each other out of their systems and yada, yada, yada.
My main problem with the book is that the story starts with a lot of things in the air, some hints at problems for our couple HEA and every single one is resolved within a few pages and in the least exciting way. But there is SO MUCH DRAMA (seriously, these characters are major drama queens) and everything is so easily overcome that in the end it’s just a silly mess.
Also, the purple prose. Don’t even get me started at that.
So, overall I had a hard time finishing this book and it left me feeling like I wasted my time.
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I don’t know about reading the book but the cover is misleading, I find myself looking twice as the first impression is of a woman’s bare torso…..probably the angle of his white shirt?
Yes, @MMZ, I had the same thought! Those man-titties looked awfully female at first glance!
I too came here to mention the man-breasts. O_O
That line pointing down though…
Evan BLACK? Between that and the gray-scale cover photo, yeesh. Why not just call it Fifteen Shades of Black?