Five years ago, I accidentally dirty danced with my brother’s best friend, Kylian Baxter, in a night club in London. But what happened after had me fleeing to New York city so I wouldn’t ever have to see him again. But now we’re both living in Hong Kong, and a chance meeting has him thrown back into my life. And he’s still all things he was five years ago. Charming. Sexy. Rich AF. Irre-f-cking-sistible. And the bane of my entire existence. The flames igniting between us every time we’re together, he does the unthinkable and offers me a job at his new casino. It’s everything I want…and more. It’s an excuse to be near him. But can I really forget the past and make him a part of my future? Or will hiding the secret from my brother be the devastating downfall that stopped us getting together five years ago? All I know for sure is this - if we're going to make it, we're going to need more than luck. Luck is the second book of Daisy Allen's The Baxter Billionaires series, and is is a spicy contemporary romance interconnected stand alone with no cheating and a happily ever after..
1. The author has made the rather common mistake of portraying a dominant/submissive relationship where, rather than answering questions that deserve a contrite and thoughtful answer, the dominant just tries to have sex with the h until she stops being angry at him or upset. And then, even when he has been a massive jerk and treated her with contempt or selfishness, he is somehow disciplining her in sex play and she’s enjoying it? She hasn’t been a bad girl, bro, you have been a bad boy. I guess it seems to me like your dominant should have his act together and not be a complete, malicious train wreck — consistency, people.
2. His relationship with the OW is profoundly inappropriate and upsetting. This book should’ve ended with the OW leaving and never coming back. Instead the h is somehow becoming friends with her and admiring her sassiness? I don’t think so. If you don’t like ambiguity related to faithfulness, you will not like this character and her role in the H’s life.
This one is a big no.
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I loved the first book and gave it 5 ⭐️ but this one is all over the place, not only grammar wise and with the spelling mistakes, but also the plot. Everything was all over the place and felt unedited. The book had a lot potential but it was just so difficult to read, maybe if it were edited I would give it another try as I adored the first book so much, but at this state it’s not it for me
Quite a few misspelled or misplaced words here and there but it didn’t overshadow the story much.
Apart from that, I just couldn’t stand Kiara. It started off with scenes of Kiara and Kylian in the beginning, during the possibility of being more, and after 5 years apart. Kiara is someone who longed for independence outside of her family and at first, I respected that. But then it edged between independence, recklessness and selfishness and I couldn’t stand her. Her unresolved problems with her mother led to her distancing herself from her dad and yet the one person who was there for her throughout everything, she was willing to throw him away for Kylian. I understand Nathan was overbearing but throughout the book she didn’t even feel bad for betraying her brother and twisted it around to be about her. She’s depicted as always wanting her way in life and that’s exactly how I interpreted it. Nathan also lost a father but it felt too much like she was the only one, seeking the comfort of his best friend and blocking Nathan out of yet another chance to understand.
Loved their love story and would’ve given 4 stars but some parts were just confusing to read, Idk maybe I’m just dumb or something 😂. There were a lot of typos and some parts seemed rushed, but still a good read but don’t know if I’d read again
notes: - CHAPTER 2 STARTS 5 YEARS AFTER CHAPTER 1??? WHAT???? TIME JUMP MUCH? - ok 100 pages later and now we're going back 5 years again *sigh* - What the fuck do you care about me getting hurt? You've never caredbefore. In fact, I think you get off on it.” - In Chinese culture, the number 9 is lucky. And Asian people like to enjoytheir gambling with a healthy dose of superstition - So, it's up to you. But please don't make me sign somethingthat will make me miserable for the rest of my life. - I don’t have an answer. Physically, I don't know. Emotionally, fuck yes
funny moments: - "Let me buy you a drink," he whispers as the music slowly fades out."I'll let you buy me two." - I cut him off. "If you say ‘child’ I will knee you so hard, you'll bechoking on your own balls." - Hey, I never take the first offer," he drawls - 'll drive you home, keep my mouth shut and even let you slam the cardoor when we get there. Deal? - "Actually, I said you didn't have to answer any questions. I didn't say thatI wouldn't ask any." - Repeat after me: I hate Kylian Baxter." - " My orgasm has apparently turned my head. I’velost my fucking mind - "Then you need a ride.""And... you're going to give it to me?""Why not? I was in the neighborhood?"I shoot him a wary look. "And why were you in the neighborhood?”He grins. "In case you needed a ride." - Kylian, my boy. You're a hard man to catch!"I blanch at the cliché. "Maybe you need to work out more. I'm actuallyvery slow on my feet." - That is the strangest but absolutely the best compliment Ihave ever received - No! This is a boss-employee talk. I, the boss, need to sit in my bosschair and lecture you, the employee. Hurry up and take off those bunnyslippers you have on under the desk and be in my office in thirty seconds.
tension: - pg 15/16 dance scene - His hands that had barely grazed me on either side suddenly grip my hipsand he pulls me closer, his legs pressing against the back of my thighs. - My words must strike a chord because before I know what’s happening,he closes the gap between us and my back is against the wall with himtowering over me. (and then - I lift a hand toshield my eyes but he grabs it and holds it over my head against the wall.) - 21 - I grab his hand and push it to my cheek. It's warm and strong against myface. My breath stills as he lowers his palm down to my throat, my pulsequickening under his touch. - 23 - "Do you really want me to kiss you?""Yes." Decisive."You might regret it.""Not as much as you'd regret it if you didn’t." - Her eyes spew viciousness as she rips my hands off her and makes a runfor it. But this time I’m prepared. I chase her all the way to the closed doorand push her up against it, pressing my body against her so she can't runaway again. I grip her chin and force her to look at me.“Kiara.” Her name comes out in a shallow breath. “Would you fuckingstop running and just look at me. - Her chest billows in and out quickly, just as mine is. I blameit on struggle rather than the memory that this is how we stood outside theclub in London that night.And how I think about it almost daily.And what it's done to my life since - 125 - pull her hand down and let it go, watching her carefully thewhole time. Instantly, she raises her other hand and swings. I catch it aninch from my cheek. And now she's not the only one angry, I grab her shoulders, spinning her around so that she’s facing the door and press heragainst it, lifting both of her hands and pinning them over her head. - my body against her, her scent in my face, her anger burning into my skin, there'snothing left but sizzling, unadulterated need for her. - 126 - My lips brush her cheek as I whisper into her ear, "Are you mad at me forwhat I did in London? Or are you just mad that you're jealous I wasn’tdoing it to you?" My free hand reaches down for the hem of her dress,bunching it into my fist at her waist. "We can change all that now. Is thatwhat you want?"A shiver travels down her body
smut: -127 - My hand drops under her dress, a finger tracing the skin of her thigh solightly, I’m not sure she can even feel it. But then the shiver travels up herleg and back to end at the top of her spine, telling me she does -128 - “Oh god…”"I'm sorry, what was that? Were you asking me to stop?" I say just as myfinger slides deep inside her. - 129 - That's my girl... just relax... don't think about what I'm doing to you. Justenjoy it. We've both been thinking about it for so long now, haven't we?"My confession spills out before I can stop it and her body contracts,doing the one thing I didn't want her to do. Think - 130 - I spin her around and drop to my knees in front of her, pushing her dressup and her panties aside in one movement as I drag my tongue in one long,slow lick from the base of her pussy to the tip of her clit.She tastes like fucking heaven - 131 - I want to kiss her.I want to kiss her so badly, to fill her mouth with the taste of her owncum. - I'll let you come on one condition... you call my name out whileyou're doing so. Like I know you've done so many times before. Except thistime, I'm going to hear it." - 132 - The anger flees from her eyes and sheleans back against the wall, moaning - 133 - but now... just now... you wereone of the most beautiful things I've ever seen in my life
more tension: - The thought of your body, hot and naked, against mine,haunts me. - now that I'm back in your life. I don't want to leave - 151 - Even before hespeaks, my whole body is vibrating. Just the touch of his hand grazing theback of my neck sends reminders of what it felt like to be touched by him - Do you really want me to promise that I'm never going to stand thisclose to you again?" - 168/169 - Kisses me like our lives depend on it; hard, passionate, his lips pressingagainst mine as my arms come around to grip his biceps, digging my nailsdeep into his muscle fibers as he kisses me.
back to smut: - Kisses me like our lives depend on it; hard, passionate, his lips pressingagainst mine as my arms come around to grip his biceps, digging my nailsdeep into his muscle fibers as he kisses me. - 170/171 - "I'm going to come," I say in a strained moan.His eyes darken. "Did I say you could come?"The question alone steals the little breath I have left from my lungs butthen he squeezes the hand at my neck. up to 174 - 184-187 - 211 - 215 - One day, I want you to fuck me without fingering me first,” I confess.“Don't you want to feel if my tight little pussy can take your thick cock? - And then he kisses me all the way down to the first floor
smut was pretty good. i’ve read better. but the plot was so predictable. like oopsie ur dad dies but ok who cares? predictable that she would break up w him when she finds out he only hired her bc of a deal w her overbearing father. haven’t read the other books because i refuse to read a book where the woman’s nickname is “kitten” i’m not an animal. also playboy finds a woman who’s so hot he cant resist her? please. i just know he says something like “i’ve never felt this way about anyone, i love you” bull💀 anyways the smut could’ve used more spice yk? it was disappointing that they didn’t end up even going on any fancy trips. this man is a whole billionaire and he’s not buying you expensive dresses everyday and bringing you too florence, italy for funzies? yeah ok.
Good story but SO MANY writing errors it drove me crazy!!!!!
The story was cute but got a bit confusing at times and jumps around a bit. But there were so many spelling, grammer, punctuation and plot errors in the book where the details were changed and didn't match up with the story line from the first book about the backstory to the family. And I felt like I was constantly sending an report error.. I hope they fix them all because it was very distracting and aggravating while trying to read the book... I may give the next book a chance when it comes out but if there are a ton of errors again, I doubt I'll be able to make it through the book...
2,9 estrellas hay una lista de cosas que no me gustaron 1) las faltas de ortorafía son impresionantes, pense que era un error de mi desacarga, pero al ver los comentarios de otras personas al parecer es para todos asi,consideando que el ingles no es mi primer lenguaje que yo haya notado las faltas es mucho decir 2)el inicio fue abrupto, el encuentro "amoroso" de Kylian y Kiara en el club fue muy de la nada, no nos dieron contexto, se logra entender un poco de Kiara ya que se explica despues que ella siempre tuvo en crush por el, pero Kylian la vio y se enamoro pensando que era una desconocida? 3) en TODO el libro se decia que trataban a Kiara como niña, que no la dejaban tomar sus decisiones.... cuando fueron como 3 veces que lei que la mandaban, pero Kiara se jactaba de que no la dejaban tomar sus propias decisiones cuando literal construyo un negocio y una vida propia ella sola. 4) La muerte del padre no me gusto, como muere sin poder tener una conversacion para que puedan redimirse de sus problemas, also, DE CUANDO KIARA NO ES SU HIJA?!?!, literal salio de la nada 5) en verdad encuentro un poco injustificado todo lo que hizo Kiara para alejarse de su padre, se nota que Denise siempre la trato como una hija asi que me enojo que siempre iba en contra solo por que ella creia que no la reconocia como su hija, un opinion más personal pero me enervaba. 6) los dialogos en las escenas spicy???, a veces estaban bien pero en la mayoria daban cringe, mucho blah blah, y diciendo cosas que dan verguenza. 7) el sexo luego de lo que le conto Kiara de su ex acosador??? siento que no iba, fue muy abrupto pasar de un tema tan delicado a caliente caliente caliente, además de que habian más escenas de las necesaria de sexo 8) porque siempre el hombre es mucho para una mujer?!?! okey, Kylian se equivoco, pero demostro una y tra vez a traves de acciones y palabras lo que sentia por Kiara y ella nunca creia y siempre salia corriendo (lo que odiaba, tienes 26 años afronta tus problemas), en fin, siento que el le daba todo y Kylan con la presencia de ella estaba feliz lo que ni si quiera ella le daba a veces, no me gusta cuando hacen parecer mucho al hombre y poco a la mujer. 9) lo que más me gusto fue la escena de Kylian en conversacion con sus hermanos por videollamada, me gusto mucho poder ver como es su relacion de hermanos.
Su historia me logro mantener enganchada un poco, lo que hizo que lo terminara y no lo dejara ahi tirado, pero no o volveria a leer y no lo recomendaría.
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Okay. Overall the book was good. Tons of spice throughout the beginning and the middle. It got very very sappy and no spice towards the end. The story itself was okay. The plot line and characters were interesting but like not fully invested. This book has A LOT of mess ups in the writing. Honestly the editing of the books got worse and worse as it went on. I think this took away a lot for me especially towards the end because sentences just didn’t make sense and I found myself having to reread over and over again where there were mistakes. Decent book but don’t know if I would reread again. Started off so strong then just fell off quickly. The whole side plot also didn’t make sense for the ending and final plot twist to be fully connected to that idk all weird.
Book defo needs a spell check ,I felt it had no story line and only developed a somewhat storyline towards the end when her dad died ,so sad that she was dismissive towards her dad due to her pride and was so mean towards him.I feel like Kiara ran away for no reason sometimes and if not for the fact that he was shot I feel like she wouldn’t have made an effort to talk to him at all even though he didn’t do anything wrong.I think he has sacrificed so much for her and she had just thrown it away like it was nothing and ignored him for no reason put aside what he did in the bar.I also think Nathan wouldn’t have made an effort to agree with Kylian and Kiara if it were not for the will from his dad neither the fact that he was shot.The way Damien has to watch Kylian be so miserable because of Kiara is so sad .
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I gave this book 3 stars because I try to support indie authors and overall the story was entertaining if not a bit all over the place. But besides that, it was an editing nightmare with typos and grammatical errors rampant throughout. It almost seemed like it was written in a different language and then put through google translate to produce a version in English. I found this pretty bizarre considering these issues were not present in the first book and the writing was more coherent. I feel a little bad about writing this review but maybe the author accidentally uploaded the wrong version to KU 🤷🏻♀️
This one was better than the first one but still not great. I did actually like Kylian and Kiara as characters and a couple.
The book felt like a lot of time was passing but in reality it was only two weeks.
After Kylian was shot in the end, there wasn’t anything about his recovery just that he was better and the casino opened. I wish there was more of his recovery and them reconciling. I hate that Kiara and Nathan’s dad had to die for everyone to come back together.
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Great book, get story line, full of spelling and grammatical error
Overall this was a great book. I loved the characters and the story line HOWEVER it’s like there was no editor at all. This book is full of spelling and grammatical errors. It was super annoying and made it hard to love this book as much as I wanted to
cute yet no where close to the first book. Julian was so obsessed with Kiara and she doubted him over and oveR and ovER and OVER again. like bro quit jumping to conclusions every 2 seconds like ur jumping rope.
enjoyed the story but the best friends sister plot didn’t come into play until like last 15% so i was kinda missing that aspect
15 pages left to read and I've fighting every bone in my body to not set this book on fire. I feel like my eyeballs are glued to back of my head because of how much I rolled my eyes. WTF??? Who wrote this? A 5 year old?? With all due disrespect, go touch grass! It's obvious you lack human interaction. Men don't growl in every sentence!!!
Another good Baxter book. This one focusing on the younger brother who falls in love with his best friends little sister. Their ending was written in the stars before they finally gave themselves a chance.
This book is absolutely perfect for all the Booktok fans out there. The detail and dialog is unbelievable, it's pure emotion with every line. Girls like me live for this type of romance. Worth the read I would say x
Please for the next book have someone fix the typos… Absolutely love this series. Great love stories and twist and turns but very basic typos occurring!
This was a good read but there were multiple grammar errors. I found myself rereading lines multiple times because of the errors. And the story about Kiara’s ex felt extremely unnecessary considering how rushed it was at the end.
DNF. It just felt like reading smut and I didn’t care for the dirty talk. FL seemed bratty most of the time, and ML seemed arrogant and even a little “abusive”, with all the pushing around, restraining FL’s arms, etc. Couldn’t finish.
Um i don’t know what happened but this is not the same book on ku this description says it’s about Kylian, but the book is actually about Matthias and lust is the same story too so I’m sorry I can’t rate this cause it’s not what I read and I have proof that it’s not the book
I love this book. Yes there are a few typos but this book is really good, I over looked them. The plot, the drama the sexual tension, it’s chef’s kiss. I think im going to read it again! Wish there was a second book!
I rwally tried to finish it. I couldn't. The way he just can't take no for an answer and just keeps coming on to her even if she said no until she changes her mind is just not it.
I loved the first book in the series but this is just a let down.
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