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The Mistress Mistake
Jessica Conway is at the end of her rope. She desperately needs a few things that her moral values can't buy: food, shelter, a chance for a better life.
Connor Montgomery is tortured with guilt and wants only one thing from Jessica and he'swilling to pay her for it. Setting her up as his mistress seems like the perfect idea. But how long can it last when it was a mistake from the beginning?
Connor Montgomery is tortured with guilt and wants only one thing from Jessica and he'swilling to pay her for it. Setting her up as his mistress seems like the perfect idea. But how long can it last when it was a mistake from the beginning?
177 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 12, 2013
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Lynda Chance
29 books2,051 followersAlways a fan of romantic fiction, I've always been in love with the alpha-male. So in love, I've never been quite satisfied with the restrictions of series romance. I like to get into a guy's mind and have him do or say exactly what he's feeling at the moment, and sometimes I shock even myself! I consider my stories soft erotica; one man, one woman, heterosexual. But since abiding love is always the happy ending I'm looking for, my couples are always monogamous. My guy would never share his woman with anyone, and she is always enough to satisfy him. Since I believe that love starts with lust, my stories are always highly sexual, explicit in nature, and hopefully totally satisfying to my readers. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them.
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February 27, 2021
Holy hell. This book is very disturbing. ¿Buying sex? ¿Slut-shaming? ¿Assholish act? ¿The widowed hero? Prejudice against tattooes and piercing? 😨😨😨 What the actual loony-bin???
But the story is a living testament to what I already knew about myself: I'm so full of shit() .
For example, I do detest disgusting heroes who buy sex. Rare am I able to come to terms with them in books because I'm very strongly opinionated when it comes to themes like prostitution.
I flip every time when in real life I come across people who express their resentment against women who engage in such activities but at the same time find nothing fundamentally wrong with men raping women for money???Like the actual fuck??? Talking to people about their attitude to such things helps me like nothing else to get rid of dense patriarchal ignorant people who live in a fool's paradise from my life🙌
So naturally it's very hard for me to read about that stuff being romantised/normalised, even though I draw a line between fiction and reality.
Back to the point I'm trying to make. Yes, I wasn't happy with the little fucked-up arrangement the main characters made. As I've pointed out, I don't buy the "buying sex" crappy concept that in whatever guise, all sugarcoating aside, actually amounts to buying the right to rape.
Thus, I was extremely uncomfortable with quite a few scenes, especially at the beginning.
That being said, I really loved the heroine. She has a very sweet personality without being a shallow wuss and I could sympathise with her struggle. Morally questionable alpha jerk of the hero eventually grew on me too... mainly due to his obvious infatuation with Jessica. Jessica acted believable, considering her type of personality and the situation she found herself into.
The fact that such kind of an arrangement was new to both of them and their obvious instant attraction to each other were a little consolation.
The author succeded in making me believe that neither the hero nor the heroine would have agreed to carry out the deal with anyone else. I felt their chemistry immediately from the first encounter. I have to admit that sex scenes were off the charts hot. *Fanning myself* hot.
All in all, very questionable content and a cheesy ending...
I couldn't put the book down for a damn second, I ended up loving it. Lol.
If someone had told me yesterday that I would like that smut-filled, messed up story, my hypocritical ass would have laughed long and hauntingly.
But the story is a living testament to what I already knew about myself: I'm so full of shit() .
For example, I do detest disgusting heroes who buy sex. Rare am I able to come to terms with them in books because I'm very strongly opinionated when it comes to themes like prostitution.
I flip every time when in real life I come across people who express their resentment against women who engage in such activities but at the same time find nothing fundamentally wrong with men raping women for money???Like the actual fuck??? Talking to people about their attitude to such things helps me like nothing else to get rid of dense patriarchal ignorant people who live in a fool's paradise from my life🙌
So naturally it's very hard for me to read about that stuff being romantised/normalised, even though I draw a line between fiction and reality.
Back to the point I'm trying to make. Yes, I wasn't happy with the little fucked-up arrangement the main characters made. As I've pointed out, I don't buy the "buying sex" crappy concept that in whatever guise, all sugarcoating aside, actually amounts to buying the right to rape.
Thus, I was extremely uncomfortable with quite a few scenes, especially at the beginning.
That being said, I really loved the heroine. She has a very sweet personality without being a shallow wuss and I could sympathise with her struggle. Morally questionable alpha jerk of the hero eventually grew on me too... mainly due to his obvious infatuation with Jessica. Jessica acted believable, considering her type of personality and the situation she found herself into.
The fact that such kind of an arrangement was new to both of them and their obvious instant attraction to each other were a little consolation.
The author succeded in making me believe that neither the hero nor the heroine would have agreed to carry out the deal with anyone else. I felt their chemistry immediately from the first encounter. I have to admit that sex scenes were off the charts hot. *Fanning myself* hot.
All in all, very questionable content and a cheesy ending...
I couldn't put the book down for a damn second, I ended up loving it. Lol.
If someone had told me yesterday that I would like that smut-filled, messed up story, my hypocritical ass would have laughed long and hauntingly.
April 24, 2023
I was doubting how this H could redeem himself…
I mean. He’s a rude, ah@le manhooooar with no-feelings, alpha, domineering annnnnd a grump. Plus, he’s VERY much against tattoos and piercings… how the h£ll is he going to get redeemed? (Lynda Chance: *hold my laptop*).
Let me back up to summarize the premise of the story. Jessica‘s (20) GPA went under a 3.0, which means her scholarship will be taken away. She needs money ASAP or else she can kiss her college degree goodbye. After going to a party and listening to people talking about a sugar daddy, she gets an idea of “promoting” herself for someone that would want her company- in exchange for money. So she signs up on a website.
Connor’s (28) wife died a year before in a car accident. The problem’s that he has a very active, strong libido, and he’s been with lots of women since. But he’s found that he’s tired of those relationships and wants something more permanent, but only physical, and he uses a website to find that. He doesn’t want any emotional ties to anyone, just someone that would satisfy his needs as a man. He would give money to this person as long as no questions are asked, no emotions are hurt, and there are no expectations on either part. Enter virginal Jessica.
Except she doesn’t tell him she’s a v 😈. But he sure finds out😅… the good ol’ fashioned way 😬😈. The beginning of their relationship was tough… Connor set up the “rules” and he’s good about not breaking them. Even when he sees she’s getting upset, he braves a stern face and makes it seem like he’s not affected… but he really is 👀.
Yup. This hard-shell of a man that only wants a vessel for his.. um… stick is actually very protective and JEALOUS ASF!!! Gahhh these scenes were DELICIOUS 😅😅😅. Jessica so doesn’t understand the power she has over Connor… and he can try to stay aloof and cold, but deep-down he wants her in more ways than one… and I was eating up his TORTURE like a forbidden cereal *crunch crunch*.
This book might be on the short side, but, my gosh, the amount of plot and character growth LC packs into this book really can put some authors to shame 😅. Even the way their lovemaking changed paralleled their character and relationship arc.
The steam- okay, this wasn’t as raunchy or dirty as I’m used to reading, but it was just as STEAMY 🔥. Yeah, at first, it was very clinical, but then things changed, and I was devouring and highlighting pages like crazy! I loved how Connor taught Jessica what she needed to learn 😅. And the shirt… Jessica… girl 👏🏻 great job 😉 what a way to have a backbone and hold your own 💁🏻♀️💅. I love how she insisted and had the balllllz to have rules of her own for this 😅👏🏻👀. It made it all sweeter once there was nothing between them anymore- and more meaningful. Which brings me to…
The role playing games 🥵. Oh. MY. GOOOOSH… wow. Connor. GENIUS! I see what you did there boo 💅 just trying to get your way by making it fun 😈 I was here for it 👀. Man. The amount of TENSION while doing the game was 🤌🏻. At this point, he CRAVES ALL of Jessica… and he’s gonna get it ALL 😈💅. And JEEEEZUS, it was freaking 🔥🔥🔥. And when she turns the tables on it, oh LORDT, that was hot too 🥵.
While I REALLY enjoyed all the OM jealous scene (😉), I also looooved the SWOOOONY scenes. Connor’s such a marshmallow on the inside when it comes to Jessica’s safety (even if he’s a hulk on the outside in his delivery), and I couldn’t help swoon while he became protective❤️🥰.
Gah! I loved it! I was side-eyeing how it was going to turn around, but it really did 🥰
⚠️safety squad⚠️
-no cheating/sharing
-widowed H (but he’s not mourning her at all)
-virgin h/manwhore H
-when H realizes he has feelings for h, he goes to bar. OW approaches him, thinks about it, then feels sick when she touches him. This pissed the h off and caused a fight. This made for a fun OM2 scene after. Later, the H’s planning to accompany a female colleague to a wedding, which is when the h goes on a “friendly date” with OM1
-When h gets upset that H smells like OW perfume, she goes to a party and OM2 is about to throw her into the pool when H appears pissed off. He threatened to kill OM 💅 they won’t find his body if he touches her again 😳😅
-OM1 made an appearance earlier as a friend. Later in the book he reminds her about a friendly “mixer” party that the h agreed to accompany him to. When H agrees to take colleague to a wedding, h decides to go to the party with OM1. The H is BESIDE HIMSELF 😅😈
-condoms/then none. There’s health check up and the h is put on the shot
I mean. He’s a rude, ah@le manhooooar with no-feelings, alpha, domineering annnnnd a grump. Plus, he’s VERY much against tattoos and piercings… how the h£ll is he going to get redeemed? (Lynda Chance: *hold my laptop*).
Let me back up to summarize the premise of the story. Jessica‘s (20) GPA went under a 3.0, which means her scholarship will be taken away. She needs money ASAP or else she can kiss her college degree goodbye. After going to a party and listening to people talking about a sugar daddy, she gets an idea of “promoting” herself for someone that would want her company- in exchange for money. So she signs up on a website.
Connor’s (28) wife died a year before in a car accident. The problem’s that he has a very active, strong libido, and he’s been with lots of women since. But he’s found that he’s tired of those relationships and wants something more permanent, but only physical, and he uses a website to find that. He doesn’t want any emotional ties to anyone, just someone that would satisfy his needs as a man. He would give money to this person as long as no questions are asked, no emotions are hurt, and there are no expectations on either part. Enter virginal Jessica.
Except she doesn’t tell him she’s a v 😈. But he sure finds out😅… the good ol’ fashioned way 😬😈. The beginning of their relationship was tough… Connor set up the “rules” and he’s good about not breaking them. Even when he sees she’s getting upset, he braves a stern face and makes it seem like he’s not affected… but he really is 👀.
Yup. This hard-shell of a man that only wants a vessel for his.. um… stick is actually very protective and JEALOUS ASF!!! Gahhh these scenes were DELICIOUS 😅😅😅. Jessica so doesn’t understand the power she has over Connor… and he can try to stay aloof and cold, but deep-down he wants her in more ways than one… and I was eating up his TORTURE like a forbidden cereal *crunch crunch*.
This book might be on the short side, but, my gosh, the amount of plot and character growth LC packs into this book really can put some authors to shame 😅. Even the way their lovemaking changed paralleled their character and relationship arc.
The steam- okay, this wasn’t as raunchy or dirty as I’m used to reading, but it was just as STEAMY 🔥. Yeah, at first, it was very clinical, but then things changed, and I was devouring and highlighting pages like crazy! I loved how Connor taught Jessica what she needed to learn 😅. And the shirt… Jessica… girl 👏🏻 great job 😉 what a way to have a backbone and hold your own 💁🏻♀️💅. I love how she insisted and had the balllllz to have rules of her own for this 😅👏🏻👀. It made it all sweeter once there was nothing between them anymore- and more meaningful. Which brings me to…
The role playing games 🥵. Oh. MY. GOOOOSH… wow. Connor. GENIUS! I see what you did there boo 💅 just trying to get your way by making it fun 😈 I was here for it 👀. Man. The amount of TENSION while doing the game was 🤌🏻. At this point, he CRAVES ALL of Jessica… and he’s gonna get it ALL 😈💅. And JEEEEZUS, it was freaking 🔥🔥🔥. And when she turns the tables on it, oh LORDT, that was hot too 🥵.
While I REALLY enjoyed all the OM jealous scene (😉), I also looooved the SWOOOONY scenes. Connor’s such a marshmallow on the inside when it comes to Jessica’s safety (even if he’s a hulk on the outside in his delivery), and I couldn’t help swoon while he became protective❤️🥰.
Gah! I loved it! I was side-eyeing how it was going to turn around, but it really did 🥰
⚠️safety squad⚠️
-no cheating/sharing
-widowed H (but he’s not mourning her at all)
-virgin h/manwhore H
-when H realizes he has feelings for h, he goes to bar. OW approaches him, thinks about it, then feels sick when she touches him. This pissed the h off and caused a fight. This made for a fun OM2 scene after. Later, the H’s planning to accompany a female colleague to a wedding, which is when the h goes on a “friendly date” with OM1
-When h gets upset that H smells like OW perfume, she goes to a party and OM2 is about to throw her into the pool when H appears pissed off. He threatened to kill OM 💅 they won’t find his body if he touches her again 😳😅
-OM1 made an appearance earlier as a friend. Later in the book he reminds her about a friendly “mixer” party that the h agreed to accompany him to. When H agrees to take colleague to a wedding, h decides to go to the party with OM1. The H is BESIDE HIMSELF 😅😈
-condoms/then none. There’s health check up and the h is put on the shot
February 21, 2023
Reread 02.21.2023 - oh the angst and swoon in this book. I love it so much I want to drop the stars because LC isn’t writing anymore and it makes me mad. I need her to do a follow up book that includes the h’s college years while she lives with Mr Controlling Connor. 😈 I just love watching him barely hold himself together in the form of a socially acceptable man when he’d really like to wild out into his natural jealous possessive Neanderthal self…. It’s 👌🏻👌🏻 😈🤣🤣🤣
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Reread 10.28.2022 - gah. This book just hits the spot. I love it sososossososossososossososososoooo much. 💕💕
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oh man. 🥰🥰 This has been sitting at the top of my Lynda Chance list for a long time. I remember loving it the first time I read it. It's been several years since that read, and while I could recall the basic premise, I'd forgotten why I remembered it so fondly. So I reread, and now I know.
This book has all the stuff we expect from Lynda Chance. Super stern and aggressively dominant and jealous/possessive hero, and a (seemingly) sweet docile heroine. But this one stands out to me, because it is a departure from her norm. For one, its longer than most of her books. Josh and Hannah is the longest (around 300 pages), and funnily enough, my most favorite, but this one is about double the length of most of her others, at 170 pages, and she does a lot with those extra pages, even if it's still practically a novella. She manages to squeeze in some character/relationship depth, emotion, and angst that is typically mostly missing from her shorter books. And she even lets her hero be a little more edgy. I'm not sure that this guy is really all that much of a Good Guy underneath. Even the smexx seems to be slightly more deviant than her other books. And I gotta say, that the combination is a WINNER for me. Morally Ambiguous Dominant Deviants and Sweet Innocent Girls are my cuppa. 👀😬🤷🏼♀️🙈🤣🤣
Basic premise: Connor's wife died the year before in a car crash. He's got a very strong sex drive, so he's been trying to satisfy that with random hookups, because he's wallowing in guilt over the fact that he never really loved his wife. So, he wants sex with zero strings or emotional entanglements because he doesn't feel like he deserves anything else. Tired of the bar flies, he decides to put a profile on an escort/sugar daddy service. The h is a 20 yr old college student who just lost her scholarship and is in desperate straights with no one in her life to turn to. She puts a profile on the same sugar daddy service. They meet and agree to an arrangement. He pays for her school and room and board and he gets unemotional no-strings sex anytime he wants it.
Easy-peasy. 🤷🏼♀️
Obviously, that isn't going to go as planned. 😅😅
What I loved:
- h (Jessica, 20 yrs) is innocent and vulnerable, but she's not a doormat. She does scramble to sort of find her footing with the H, but she eventually finds her voice and she ends up being pretty feisty, for a LC heroine. I liked her a lot. She struggled for independence without being a miserable shrew 💕
- H (Connor, 28 yrs) is calm cool collected - he's rich - he owns a tech start up - he's working through some sh*t - He is intense and bossy and very reluctantly OTT jealous/possessive/protective - He can be a little mean, but his sweetness shows up at just the right times. 💗
- at first, the H is very clinical and hands off with sex, and the h, in her bid to keep her own emotions at bay, decides that she will only give one part of herself to him, and this makes him NUTS. I loved this aspect of the story. He thought he didn't want any intimacy from her until it's taken off the table entirely, then it's like she's waving a red flag in front of a bull 🤣😈🥵
- the H claims her by biting and marking her 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- the H loses his sh*t over OM - promising to bury one where no one will ever find him if he ever looks at the h again 😈🥵😈🥵
- he freaks over her clothing 😈
- he says he only owns her sex life, but he quickly wants control of all aspects of her life 😈
- he's super OTT protective, and even when they are kinda broken up, he still insists on personally ensuring her safety ***SWOON*** 😍
- there's a little OW drama that adds the perfect amount of angst without making you want to kill the H 😈
- they do this roll-playing game that I thought was hot. He's doing it to manipulate her into giving him what she's been holding back, but I loved how it was written. It was actually something I could see regular people doing in real life. I thought it was sexy and sweet.
- typically I won't read books where the H is paying for sex (prostitutes, strippers, etc). I really hate it. 😐 Like REALLY. BUT... the way this is written, I understood why he saw this arrangement as his last ditch chance to get some relief in his life. Plus, he hadn't done this before. It's not a pattern. He only ever paid the h, after interviewing several women. He latched on to the h immediately. 👍🏻👍🏻
- Another thing I hate? The Dead Wife trope. But, he didn't love the wife. We find that out early, and we get more details late in the book. It causes the h some angst because she only knows that he was married previously, but it works for me because the reader knows he didn't love her and his feeling for the h for outweigh his feelings for the his dead spouse.
- he grovels. 😈
- he calls her "baby" 💗😍💗😍💗
What i didn't like?
- like usual, I wished it had been longer 🤷🏼♀️ - I'd have liked to gotten even more depth into his past and more time with them figuring their way into being a couple, before the epilogue with babies. How are they gonna navigate her last years at school? It sounds like they don't get married until she graduates. So what did her social life at college look like? What's her career gonna look like with him being so demanding?... We get a little taste with the epilogue, but I still had a lot of questions.
Bottom Line? I loved it. This had the perfect mix of jealous possessive H and sweet h and angst and drama... ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
⚠️SAFETY SQUAD SPOILERS⚠️
- no cheating or sharing
- OW drama - well, there's the dead wife, but he doesn't love her. Then when he starts catching feelings for the h he panics and goes to a bar with the intention of having sex with someone else.... but he gets nauseous as soon as a woman touches his arm, and he can't stop thinking about the h, so he flees the scene. However, this does cause a big angsty blow-up when he goes to see the h and she smells perfume on him. Later, he plans to escort a colleague to a wedding, and this causes them to basically break up. He doesn't' want the OW, but he's bucking up against a relationship (trauma)... don't worry he grovels. 😈
- OM drama - the h is friendly with a couple of different guys her age, and the H loses his shit about both. At one point following her around like a creeper when she goes to a social event without him while they are broken up 😈
- no dubcon - there's some cringey clinical sex but she has agreed to all of it
- h is a 20 yr old (secret) virgin - the H discovers this The Old Fashioned Way
- H is a 28 yr old widowed manwhore
- sexual health is tested for and the h is put on a birth control shot - they use condoms at first - and then stop 👍🏻
❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️
Reread 10.28.2022 - gah. This book just hits the spot. I love it sososossososossososossososososoooo much. 💕💕
______
oh man. 🥰🥰 This has been sitting at the top of my Lynda Chance list for a long time. I remember loving it the first time I read it. It's been several years since that read, and while I could recall the basic premise, I'd forgotten why I remembered it so fondly. So I reread, and now I know.
This book has all the stuff we expect from Lynda Chance. Super stern and aggressively dominant and jealous/possessive hero, and a (seemingly) sweet docile heroine. But this one stands out to me, because it is a departure from her norm. For one, its longer than most of her books. Josh and Hannah is the longest (around 300 pages), and funnily enough, my most favorite, but this one is about double the length of most of her others, at 170 pages, and she does a lot with those extra pages, even if it's still practically a novella. She manages to squeeze in some character/relationship depth, emotion, and angst that is typically mostly missing from her shorter books. And she even lets her hero be a little more edgy. I'm not sure that this guy is really all that much of a Good Guy underneath. Even the smexx seems to be slightly more deviant than her other books. And I gotta say, that the combination is a WINNER for me. Morally Ambiguous Dominant Deviants and Sweet Innocent Girls are my cuppa. 👀😬🤷🏼♀️🙈🤣🤣
Basic premise: Connor's wife died the year before in a car crash. He's got a very strong sex drive, so he's been trying to satisfy that with random hookups, because he's wallowing in guilt over the fact that he never really loved his wife. So, he wants sex with zero strings or emotional entanglements because he doesn't feel like he deserves anything else. Tired of the bar flies, he decides to put a profile on an escort/sugar daddy service. The h is a 20 yr old college student who just lost her scholarship and is in desperate straights with no one in her life to turn to. She puts a profile on the same sugar daddy service. They meet and agree to an arrangement. He pays for her school and room and board and he gets unemotional no-strings sex anytime he wants it.
Easy-peasy. 🤷🏼♀️
Obviously, that isn't going to go as planned. 😅😅
What I loved:
- h (Jessica, 20 yrs) is innocent and vulnerable, but she's not a doormat. She does scramble to sort of find her footing with the H, but she eventually finds her voice and she ends up being pretty feisty, for a LC heroine. I liked her a lot. She struggled for independence without being a miserable shrew 💕
- H (Connor, 28 yrs) is calm cool collected - he's rich - he owns a tech start up - he's working through some sh*t - He is intense and bossy and very reluctantly OTT jealous/possessive/protective - He can be a little mean, but his sweetness shows up at just the right times. 💗
- at first, the H is very clinical and hands off with sex, and the h, in her bid to keep her own emotions at bay, decides that she will only give one part of herself to him, and this makes him NUTS. I loved this aspect of the story. He thought he didn't want any intimacy from her until it's taken off the table entirely, then it's like she's waving a red flag in front of a bull 🤣😈🥵
- the H claims her by biting and marking her 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- the H loses his sh*t over OM - promising to bury one where no one will ever find him if he ever looks at the h again 😈🥵😈🥵
- he freaks over her clothing 😈
- he says he only owns her sex life, but he quickly wants control of all aspects of her life 😈
- he's super OTT protective, and even when they are kinda broken up, he still insists on personally ensuring her safety ***SWOON*** 😍
- there's a little OW drama that adds the perfect amount of angst without making you want to kill the H 😈
- they do this roll-playing game that I thought was hot. He's doing it to manipulate her into giving him what she's been holding back, but I loved how it was written. It was actually something I could see regular people doing in real life. I thought it was sexy and sweet.
- typically I won't read books where the H is paying for sex (prostitutes, strippers, etc). I really hate it. 😐 Like REALLY. BUT... the way this is written, I understood why he saw this arrangement as his last ditch chance to get some relief in his life. Plus, he hadn't done this before. It's not a pattern. He only ever paid the h, after interviewing several women. He latched on to the h immediately. 👍🏻👍🏻
- Another thing I hate? The Dead Wife trope. But, he didn't love the wife. We find that out early, and we get more details late in the book. It causes the h some angst because she only knows that he was married previously, but it works for me because the reader knows he didn't love her and his feeling for the h for outweigh his feelings for the his dead spouse.
- he grovels. 😈
- he calls her "baby" 💗😍💗😍💗
What i didn't like?
- like usual, I wished it had been longer 🤷🏼♀️ - I'd have liked to gotten even more depth into his past and more time with them figuring their way into being a couple, before the epilogue with babies. How are they gonna navigate her last years at school? It sounds like they don't get married until she graduates. So what did her social life at college look like? What's her career gonna look like with him being so demanding?... We get a little taste with the epilogue, but I still had a lot of questions.
Bottom Line? I loved it. This had the perfect mix of jealous possessive H and sweet h and angst and drama... ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
⚠️SAFETY SQUAD SPOILERS⚠️
- no cheating or sharing
- OW drama - well, there's the dead wife, but he doesn't love her. Then when he starts catching feelings for the h he panics and goes to a bar with the intention of having sex with someone else.... but he gets nauseous as soon as a woman touches his arm, and he can't stop thinking about the h, so he flees the scene. However, this does cause a big angsty blow-up when he goes to see the h and she smells perfume on him. Later, he plans to escort a colleague to a wedding, and this causes them to basically break up. He doesn't' want the OW, but he's bucking up against a relationship (trauma)... don't worry he grovels. 😈
- OM drama - the h is friendly with a couple of different guys her age, and the H loses his shit about both. At one point following her around like a creeper when she goes to a social event without him while they are broken up 😈
- no dubcon - there's some cringey clinical sex but she has agreed to all of it
- h is a 20 yr old (secret) virgin - the H discovers this The Old Fashioned Way
- H is a 28 yr old widowed manwhore
- sexual health is tested for and the h is put on a birth control shot - they use condoms at first - and then stop 👍🏻
June 11, 2021
I’m a hypocrite, there, I said it.
I despise all things related to prostitution, but as I was reading this book I was actually making excuses as to how this was different so I could enjoy the book. Up til now I still think it was different from normal prostitution, but it was money for sex and I enjoyed reading it...
I’m going to blame it on the writing style, good paced, a few misspelling errors which could have been avoided easily, the development of the relationship was great and pretty natural and the characters were built sooo good. Jessica was innocent and good hearted and he was tormented and lived his life with guilt.
So yep, I liked this book and enjoyed it deeply! Shame on me.
I despise all things related to prostitution, but as I was reading this book I was actually making excuses as to how this was different so I could enjoy the book. Up til now I still think it was different from normal prostitution, but it was money for sex and I enjoyed reading it...
I’m going to blame it on the writing style, good paced, a few misspelling errors which could have been avoided easily, the development of the relationship was great and pretty natural and the characters were built sooo good. Jessica was innocent and good hearted and he was tormented and lived his life with guilt.
So yep, I liked this book and enjoyed it deeply! Shame on me.
June 23, 2021
5 out of 5 stars.
This was a cute story (if you can call it cute considering the heavy topic it deals with💀). Hero (28) pays the heroine (20) to be his fuck-buddy. And he states his terms clearly. No strings. No intimacy. Just plain and simple fucking.
Connor paying Jess to be his personal sex toy didn’t really bother me (don’t let my feminist friends hear this) and I love how shrewdly the author handled their relationship. The H was a domineering, unbearable jerk but when he ordered Jessica to lie down on her stomach in that raspy voice and got behind her and wrapped his arm around her waist and lifted her onto her knees—
I lurvedddd the chemistry between them. I loved how feisty yet naive Jessica was. She didn’t throw herself at Connor’s feet at the first sign of affection from him. That is exactly the kind of heroine I needed to read about after reading The Monster *shudder* by Ms. Shen.
This was a cute story (if you can call it cute considering the heavy topic it deals with💀). Hero (28) pays the heroine (20) to be his fuck-buddy. And he states his terms clearly. No strings. No intimacy. Just plain and simple fucking.
“All I want is sex." When he made that statement, her eyes cut away from his, but he reached out and pulled her chin back toward him until her eyes were focused on his again. His fingers were rough and callused and she wondered what he did for a living. "All I want is sex," he reiterated. "I'll never want anything more. I want a female body, a vessel. And I'm willing to pay for it. That's it.”
Connor paying Jess to be his personal sex toy didn’t really bother me (don’t let my feminist friends hear this) and I love how shrewdly the author handled their relationship. The H was a domineering, unbearable jerk but when he ordered Jessica to lie down on her stomach in that raspy voice and got behind her and wrapped his arm around her waist and lifted her onto her knees—
I lurvedddd the chemistry between them. I loved how feisty yet naive Jessica was. She didn’t throw herself at Connor’s feet at the first sign of affection from him. That is exactly the kind of heroine I needed to read about after reading The Monster *shudder* by Ms. Shen.
July 21, 2018
I am still laughing my self silly over this. It was better than my most whackstastic trip to HPlandia and I really, really loved his desperate begging at the end because he KNEW he was a goner and he had seriously messed up.
I had a great time with this and tho it was kinda whacked and icky at the beginning, I was so feeling the love by the end.
I had a great time with this and tho it was kinda whacked and icky at the beginning, I was so feeling the love by the end.
June 9, 2014
3.5 stars, really, but I usually round up.
For me, this is one of those books you enjoy because it's a crazy train wreck. The H is almost psycho-jealous and the whole scenario is just WTF?! BUT, it was a fast read and I was absorbed.
I liked this, but couldn't give it 5 stars due to the reason JennyG stated in her review 'not enough plot' aaaaaand what really bugged the crap out of me though is the fact that
For me, this is one of those books you enjoy because it's a crazy train wreck. The H is almost psycho-jealous and the whole scenario is just WTF?! BUT, it was a fast read and I was absorbed.
I liked this, but couldn't give it 5 stars due to the reason JennyG stated in her review 'not enough plot' aaaaaand what really bugged the crap out of me though is the fact that
February 26, 2023
Pretty woman in college… I’m kidding!
This book was a refreshing surprise! I really enjoy the characters, the atmosphere, the romance - it was quickly- well…
It’s worth the reading.
This book was a refreshing surprise! I really enjoy the characters, the atmosphere, the romance - it was quickly- well…
It’s worth the reading.
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January 11, 2025Curiosity definitely killed the cat. 🤧
He's a stupid asshole, and she's a pathetic, dumb AF doormat. They're obviously meant for each other. So I guess, here's to many more years of toxicity to come. 🍻🤷♀️
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Self note:
If I'm in the mood to be annoyed by a story, I will give this a try.
Based on some GR friends' reviews, he's an a-hole to the nth degree, and they have mixed views about him; some even said he's not redeemable, and some ended up liking him. But I think it's a mutual consensus with the FMC that she's weak and pathetic. 🤧
Also, manwh*re x virgin pairing again!!! Just freaking great. 🙄
So yeah, if I really, and I mean really, wanna be furious, I think this is the perfect book that would make me feel that way.
He's a stupid asshole, and she's a pathetic, dumb AF doormat. They're obviously meant for each other. So I guess, here's to many more years of toxicity to come. 🍻🤷♀️
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Self note:
If I'm in the mood to be annoyed by a story, I will give this a try.
Based on some GR friends' reviews, he's an a-hole to the nth degree, and they have mixed views about him; some even said he's not redeemable, and some ended up liking him. But I think it's a mutual consensus with the FMC that she's weak and pathetic. 🤧
Also, manwh*re x virgin pairing again!!! Just freaking great. 🙄
So yeah, if I really, and I mean really, wanna be furious, I think this is the perfect book that would make me feel that way.
March 2, 2021
Nothing special but kept me glued to the screen...
February 23, 2021
4.5 stars
Get past the silly premise that sets up the relationship and this is a sweet, enjoyable story about two likeable people.
Get past the silly premise that sets up the relationship and this is a sweet, enjoyable story about two likeable people.
July 7, 2015
As hot as hell and smutty as it can get. Fans of Lynda Chance's super-duper Alpha sex-on-a-stick males and willowy, virginal heroines won't be disappointed. Wish h had more of a backbone and more groveling from H. Despite the title, there is no
July 11, 2021
Finally a real possessive man who would die if someone touched the heroine . Not like our nowadays possessive heroes.
Who wouldn't mind passing the heroine to all his friends and watch it too .
Usually I don't like the trope when the heroine sells herself for the hero or the when the hero pays for sex .
But the author handled the subject very well and it was well done .
I sympathized with the heroine and felt how much she hated what she's doing.
And I liked how she didn't just fell in lust with the hero and forgot all her morals . Developing feelings was gradual for both of them .and I did believe in their love.
Safety: virgin heroine . Hero was married for five years .he slept with random women after his wife died .and there's No one after the heroine .he wanted to pick up a woman from a bar to prove he didn't fell for the heroine but failed to do it and left before even talking to someone. No om drama except a student who like the h .
Who wouldn't mind passing the heroine to all his friends and watch it too .
Usually I don't like the trope when the heroine sells herself for the hero or the when the hero pays for sex .
But the author handled the subject very well and it was well done .
I sympathized with the heroine and felt how much she hated what she's doing.
And I liked how she didn't just fell in lust with the hero and forgot all her morals . Developing feelings was gradual for both of them .and I did believe in their love.
Safety: virgin heroine . Hero was married for five years .he slept with random women after his wife died .and there's No one after the heroine .he wanted to pick up a woman from a bar to prove he didn't fell for the heroine but failed to do it and left before even talking to someone. No om drama except a student who like the h .
March 12, 2022
This book was pure crack. Where have I been? Why didn't I read it sooner? My mistake here was thinking I could walk away from this book and do other things. Instead, I spent much of my day eagerly eating up this story.
The heroine: A 20yo virgin desperate for a way to pay her tuition after losing her scholarship. I could relate to the pain of having taken calculus at the same time as other intense courses (my time commitment for calc alone was ~20 hours a week!). I took chemistry and physics together and if I had been dependent on a scholarship as the heroine, well, I too may have found myself in a desperate circumstance.
The hero: A 28yo widower who just wants sex. Nothing more. Just sex. Because of this, he seeks out an arrangement in which he can satisfy his strong libido while avoiding the entanglements of a relationship. Except, well… best laid plans and all that.
"All I want is sex," he reiterated. "I'll never want anything more. I want a female body, a vessel. And I'm willing to pay for it. That's it." Sure, buddy.
I found the heroine relatable and likeable. She was sweet without being a doormat. Book smart, but somewhat naïve in other areas, given her inexperience. It was clear from the beginning that she didn’t know what she was getting into and wasn’t totally on board with the idea, and she stupidly goes to meet the hero without even telling anyone where she was going or what she was doing. Ladies, don’t do this. Yes, they met in a public place but what if he put something in her drink? Or paid the bartender to do it (I’ve heard of this actually happening). She could have told her roommate where she was going and said it was a blind date to avoid an awkward conversation about her potential sugar-daddy arrangement. As if that wasn’t enough, she goes into a hotel room with him to prove she has no tattoos. This was just… not smart. I mean, he could have been a serial killer, right? That’s how girls end up in pieces in a bathtub somewhere. Clearly, I listen to too many true crime podcasts.
Anyway, once they come to their arrangement, the hero was… well, he was a dick.
A lot of my entertainment came from watching the hero fight his attraction so hard. He so obviously wanted more than this sex-only “arrangement” from the heroine, but he wouldn’t let himself just go with it. Even when he started to lean into it, you could see him trying to hold himself back. Every time he flew into a jealous fit, revealing how he truly felt, I couldn’t help chuckling. Honestly, I was living for it.
*** Here there be (mild) spoilers: ***
Our poor naïve heroine had *of course* not realized that sleeping with someone would cause her to develop feelings for them, and she wrestles with that a bit because she’s not sure where she really stands with the hero. I liked that she took steps to try to put herself on more equal footing, and when faced with things not working out as she hoped, she was prepared to walk away. I like to see a heroine with some self-respect.
I was hoping for a scenario where the hero realizes he made a huge mistake and not only admits it, but explains himself and apologizes, and I felt like I got that.
The length was perfect for me—long enough to have some good story and character development without dragging on, although I did feel the last chapter was a bit rushed. I’m not going to pretend this was the best-written book I’ve read, and my rating system is questionable at this point, but damn if I don’t want to go out and find a stack of books just like it.
The heroine: A 20yo virgin desperate for a way to pay her tuition after losing her scholarship. I could relate to the pain of having taken calculus at the same time as other intense courses (my time commitment for calc alone was ~20 hours a week!). I took chemistry and physics together and if I had been dependent on a scholarship as the heroine, well, I too may have found myself in a desperate circumstance.
The hero: A 28yo widower who just wants sex. Nothing more. Just sex. Because of this, he seeks out an arrangement in which he can satisfy his strong libido while avoiding the entanglements of a relationship. Except, well… best laid plans and all that.
"All I want is sex," he reiterated. "I'll never want anything more. I want a female body, a vessel. And I'm willing to pay for it. That's it." Sure, buddy.
I found the heroine relatable and likeable. She was sweet without being a doormat. Book smart, but somewhat naïve in other areas, given her inexperience. It was clear from the beginning that she didn’t know what she was getting into and wasn’t totally on board with the idea, and she stupidly goes to meet the hero without even telling anyone where she was going or what she was doing. Ladies, don’t do this. Yes, they met in a public place but what if he put something in her drink? Or paid the bartender to do it (I’ve heard of this actually happening). She could have told her roommate where she was going and said it was a blind date to avoid an awkward conversation about her potential sugar-daddy arrangement. As if that wasn’t enough, she goes into a hotel room with him to prove she has no tattoos. This was just… not smart. I mean, he could have been a serial killer, right? That’s how girls end up in pieces in a bathtub somewhere. Clearly, I listen to too many true crime podcasts.
Anyway, once they come to their arrangement, the hero was… well, he was a dick.
A lot of my entertainment came from watching the hero fight his attraction so hard. He so obviously wanted more than this sex-only “arrangement” from the heroine, but he wouldn’t let himself just go with it. Even when he started to lean into it, you could see him trying to hold himself back. Every time he flew into a jealous fit, revealing how he truly felt, I couldn’t help chuckling. Honestly, I was living for it.
*** Here there be (mild) spoilers: ***
Our poor naïve heroine had *of course* not realized that sleeping with someone would cause her to develop feelings for them, and she wrestles with that a bit because she’s not sure where she really stands with the hero. I liked that she took steps to try to put herself on more equal footing, and when faced with things not working out as she hoped, she was prepared to walk away. I like to see a heroine with some self-respect.
I was hoping for a scenario where the hero realizes he made a huge mistake and not only admits it, but explains himself and apologizes, and I felt like I got that.
The length was perfect for me—long enough to have some good story and character development without dragging on, although I did feel the last chapter was a bit rushed. I’m not going to pretend this was the best-written book I’ve read, and my rating system is questionable at this point, but damn if I don’t want to go out and find a stack of books just like it.
April 11, 2013
Hmmmmmm... It was just OK......
Jessica's in college and has just lost her scholarship due to not hitting the mark on her GPA but she was very close.. she has no money and its time to move out of the dorm. She just happens to hear to frat girls talking at a party about this website where girls can hook up with a sugar daddy online to help pay for their tuition and a place to live. Jessica is desperate so she signs up.... she decides to sign up even though she's only 20 and she still has her V card..
Enter Connor.. a good looking rich guy that is tired of hooking up in bars and wants a mistress for a few months that he can get it on with every night with no complications like feelings getting involved. He just wants a dedicated willing vajajay to be there for him when he needs it..
The story from there is pretty predictable with Jessica falling in love with Connor and Connor fighting it.. he's crazy possessive which I normaly love in my book guys but it just didnt work with him for some reason. I didnt feel it. It was more annoying than sexy.
I really wanted to like this one more but honestly it fell flat. I was hoping for another great one like Marco's Redemption(which I loved and highly recommend) but this one came no where close. I didn't feel anything for Conner until after around 50% of the book and I never really felt a real connection between he and Jessica. The sex was OK..there was an effort made to make it steamy but it just never really got there for me....
Jessica's in college and has just lost her scholarship due to not hitting the mark on her GPA but she was very close.. she has no money and its time to move out of the dorm. She just happens to hear to frat girls talking at a party about this website where girls can hook up with a sugar daddy online to help pay for their tuition and a place to live. Jessica is desperate so she signs up.... she decides to sign up even though she's only 20 and she still has her V card..
Enter Connor.. a good looking rich guy that is tired of hooking up in bars and wants a mistress for a few months that he can get it on with every night with no complications like feelings getting involved. He just wants a dedicated willing vajajay to be there for him when he needs it..
The story from there is pretty predictable with Jessica falling in love with Connor and Connor fighting it.. he's crazy possessive which I normaly love in my book guys but it just didnt work with him for some reason. I didnt feel it. It was more annoying than sexy.
I really wanted to like this one more but honestly it fell flat. I was hoping for another great one like Marco's Redemption(which I loved and highly recommend) but this one came no where close. I didn't feel anything for Conner until after around 50% of the book and I never really felt a real connection between he and Jessica. The sex was OK..there was an effort made to make it steamy but it just never really got there for me....
August 23, 2015
**re-read** I love Lynda Chance she is brilliant! This is my favorite book by Mrs. Chance yet (and I've loved all of her books). I devoured this book and had to pull myself away from it for the things in life that didn't seem to understand that my life now needed to pause so I could read(ugh). Jessica has just found out that she has lost her college scholarship and with nowhere to turn she decides to do something she would never consider. At a party Jessica hears girls talking about a web sight that matches woman and rich men together, so with her college future bleak she signs up. Connor needs a woman in his life who knows he doesn't want a relationship or attachments, he's done it before and it ended horribly so he signs up for a dating sight with rich men who are willing to pay for a woman's company but he has a few stipulations and he soon finds out that its harder than he thought to find the right woman then he meets Jessica. As they embark on their relationship they both find that they may not be able to keep their hearts out of the equation. And Connor will have to decide if he can get over his past and his guilt and move forward with Jessica or if he will have to move on without her. SO I said it before but it bears repeating I LOVED THIS BOOK. But more I LOVE Connor he has been moved to a very small list with the best heroes I have ever read, and its well deserved. Lynda Chance blew me away with this book. I always know that she will be an author I can trust and will love all she writes but she has clearly decided to step up her game yet again so that I am going to be going crazy till she releases another book.
October 14, 2024
Oh my.
This one was just straight up delicious. 😋
~ Good girl heroine that gets pushed into a morally unethical position that she has no other options but to follow through on
~ A seemingly bad guy hero that thinks he’s capitalizing on the h’s poor circumstances but he’s really just riding in to save the damsel in distress
~ “Surprise, I’m a virgin!” during that first encounter
~ Reluctant Hero that doesn’t want to have feelings for the heroine, but, dammit, he just can’t help it!
~ Sweet, feminine heroine, but still strong when she needs to be
~ OTT jealous, possessive, and protective H
I mean, this one just ticked off so many of my boxes of things I thoroughly enjoy. ☑️☑️☑️
Highly recommend to anyone that finds any of that 👆kind of stuff to be their jam too! ❤️
This one was just straight up delicious. 😋
~ Good girl heroine that gets pushed into a morally unethical position that she has no other options but to follow through on
~ A seemingly bad guy hero that thinks he’s capitalizing on the h’s poor circumstances but he’s really just riding in to save the damsel in distress
~ “Surprise, I’m a virgin!” during that first encounter
~ Reluctant Hero that doesn’t want to have feelings for the heroine, but, dammit, he just can’t help it!
~ Sweet, feminine heroine, but still strong when she needs to be
~ OTT jealous, possessive, and protective H
I mean, this one just ticked off so many of my boxes of things I thoroughly enjoy. ☑️☑️☑️
Highly recommend to anyone that finds any of that 👆kind of stuff to be their jam too! ❤️
September 8, 2021
I liked the book because of the crazy jealous hero, but honestly he was a total douchebag.
The beginning was depressing and the h became a doormat with no self respect towards the end, and I hate doormats. This annoyed me so much that I almost gave this 2-3 stars, even though it’s a good book because of the feels…🙄
Safety
Safe.
No cheating (but he wishes he could, to get over the h, but he can’t get it up trope)
Some ow drama
Minor om drama.
The beginning was depressing and the h became a doormat with no self respect towards the end, and I hate doormats. This annoyed me so much that I almost gave this 2-3 stars, even though it’s a good book because of the feels…🙄
Safety
Safe.
No cheating (but he wishes he could, to get over the h, but he can’t get it up trope)
Some ow drama
Minor om drama.
May 16, 2020
Sad and sexy in equal parts, and saved itself from being just another smutty book.
The premise is tropey with a college student selling her body (and virginity) to keep afloat but it had deeper layers.
The premise is tropey with a college student selling her body (and virginity) to keep afloat but it had deeper layers.
September 17, 2022
It’s five for the angst and one for the characters so my average is three.
It would have been perfect because we have a subject that is very hot and angst leading, that is a young, impoverished, very lonely and damaged woman who has to barter her body to pay her uni fee.
- she’s really at the end of the rope because she can’t even ask for a loan since her mother messed with her bank account so now she’s not reliable.
- and she’s a virgin.
- she accepts the hero’s proposition to be his mistress, only sex no intimacy, for a period of time. They both will be exclusive.
- the hero is an emotional mess. He doesn’t do feelings, or emotions.
- the first part was really good and angsty because she’s a good girl that we all love and would like to see happy, while the hero really is awful, he puts her in a nice apartment and uses her once a day, then leaves without a word. She never enjoys the act.
The hero behaves like a jerk because he is very attracted to her and is afraid to become attached and to develop feelings. Which things I didn’t care, because he was being an asshole and a brute and she didn’t deserve it. A less disgusting man would have behaved differently when he learned she was inexperienced and what her issues were like.
- then he starts behaving like a possessive and jealous jerk, and their sex improves - slightly.
Because sometimes he still uses her body and she doesn’t even come. So no, I definitely didn’t like the hero.
- there’s a rule in these kind of books, that if a hero is a jerk and a idiot he at least has to be an amazing and irresistible lover and the heroine has to melt each time he touches her, because let’s say it all, it she has to fall in love with a complete idiot at least he has to be always good in bed so she will suffer from severe TBS.
This is not the case, so why does the heroine start having feelings for him?
You’ll have your answer soon.
I kind of liked her for the first half of the book. She doesn’t get depressed, she keeps asking for scholarship and looking for jobs and she finds both. She’s determined to tell the hero that she doesn’t want his money anymore and that she will only accept an equal relationship with him.
- but then it all went bad, very bad IMO.
- the hero has strong feelings for her and is scared as hell, so he decides he doesn’t want to be controlled (?) by her and goes to a bar with the intention to have a hookup with a random woman. When a woman approaches him though, he feels he can’t go through with it because the only one he wants is the heroine.
- he gets home to the heroine and when she smells ows perfume she’s hurt and distraught.
- she thinks he’s had sex with another and eventually he explains he wanted to but couldn’t because he wants her- only her. He wanted to prove a point, that he didn’t feel anything for her. Great!
- the heroine wants to dump him and thinks that it’s the right time to tell him she doesn’t need him anymore and I was like yes, you go girl!! Do it! Doitdoitdoitdoit!!! Dump his sorry ass and tell him you’ve found a scholarship and he can go to hell! Because it was the right time to make him understand she was worthy of more than that, much more than that. And since the hero was already obsessed he would surely have accepted everything she offered to keep her.
But no, she decides she can’t risk losing him and doesn’t tell him anything.
That’s where I lost it.
WTF woman??????
- because her behavior is typical of an emotional dependent weak person, who is ready to accept every abuse for fear of losing the person she’s in a relationship with. Very sad, very depressing. Because he’s an emotional vampire and wants to have all the power in their relationship and she’s his perfect victim.
- I was so sad to see this perfect dysfunctional pattern of behavior that I almost stopped reading.
- but there’s more. Sadly.
- yes, their relationship changes a bit and they start having some dialogue between them, forming a slight emotional connection. But the coward selfish hero is still worried she could control him (she’s not the only one to have issues) and again!!!- he accepts a woman’s invitation to be her partner to an event. He only does it to prove he’s the stronger one and the heroine, instead of packing and leaving she BEGS!!!
My god that was embarrassing even for me that I wasn’t in the book, how low can an emotional co dependent person stoops in order to keep her partner. Even an abusive one like the hero. Because that’s what he is. Abusive.
- ok, eventually he won’t go because he realizes he can’t live without the heroine and explains he feels guilty because he was in an unhappy marriage and when his wife died he felt relieved but hey, I didn’t care a bit, he was no man IMO, to subject a young already battered woman to his tantrums.
- no cheating and no desire for any other women here so the book is technically very safe, but the fact he used ows to prove a point that he was the one with all the power in their relationship was maybe as bad as cheating. And I hate cheating, for me isn’t forgivable.
So that was bad. He knew he was hurting the heroine, he knew what she had to go through in her young life and still he never never once thought about her when he hurt her- emotionally. Tell me where’s his love for her here??
- this is no man for me, this is only a weak coward of an abuser that won’t resist one day with a strong woman by his side.
- and the heroine was a mess, dependent and unable to stand for herself. She let him stomp on her not once but twice and more, she wasn’t brave enough.
- I don’t believe in their HEA. No hea is possible in a relationship where one has all the power and is an abuser and the other is a victim. So the epilogue sounded very unlikely and wrong, as if it was the ending of another book.
- anyway I give three stars because it was really very angsty without cheating that is more than you can hope in present books. They are either lame or unacceptable with cheating aplenty. So this one was good.
- this goes on worst heroes shelf. I don’t condone an abusive behavior and actually the hero had no real trauma in his past that could justify such a callous behavior to each and every woman. I still believe in heroes who are protector of abused women, this was definitely not one.
- about the trigger or paid mistress/ escort this was really disturbing. Because it showed once again a weak selfish bastard exploiting a young helpless woman who really had no chance to go on with her studies than that. The chance was that she left uni and gave up her dream career for an unsatisfactory job. Was she right to sell herself? I don’t judge but surely she didn’t have many options, so I was more disgusted with the hero that didn’t bat a lid when he found out how bad was her situation and kept on exploiting her merciless than with her difficult decision. I don’t feel like judging her but I very much feel like judging him- very bad.
It would have been perfect because we have a subject that is very hot and angst leading, that is a young, impoverished, very lonely and damaged woman who has to barter her body to pay her uni fee.
- she’s really at the end of the rope because she can’t even ask for a loan since her mother messed with her bank account so now she’s not reliable.
- and she’s a virgin.
- she accepts the hero’s proposition to be his mistress, only sex no intimacy, for a period of time. They both will be exclusive.
- the hero is an emotional mess. He doesn’t do feelings, or emotions.
- the first part was really good and angsty because she’s a good girl that we all love and would like to see happy, while the hero really is awful, he puts her in a nice apartment and uses her once a day, then leaves without a word. She never enjoys the act.
The hero behaves like a jerk because he is very attracted to her and is afraid to become attached and to develop feelings. Which things I didn’t care, because he was being an asshole and a brute and she didn’t deserve it. A less disgusting man would have behaved differently when he learned she was inexperienced and what her issues were like.
- then he starts behaving like a possessive and jealous jerk, and their sex improves - slightly.
Because sometimes he still uses her body and she doesn’t even come. So no, I definitely didn’t like the hero.
- there’s a rule in these kind of books, that if a hero is a jerk and a idiot he at least has to be an amazing and irresistible lover and the heroine has to melt each time he touches her, because let’s say it all, it she has to fall in love with a complete idiot at least he has to be always good in bed so she will suffer from severe TBS.
This is not the case, so why does the heroine start having feelings for him?
You’ll have your answer soon.
I kind of liked her for the first half of the book. She doesn’t get depressed, she keeps asking for scholarship and looking for jobs and she finds both. She’s determined to tell the hero that she doesn’t want his money anymore and that she will only accept an equal relationship with him.
- but then it all went bad, very bad IMO.
- the hero has strong feelings for her and is scared as hell, so he decides he doesn’t want to be controlled (?) by her and goes to a bar with the intention to have a hookup with a random woman. When a woman approaches him though, he feels he can’t go through with it because the only one he wants is the heroine.
- he gets home to the heroine and when she smells ows perfume she’s hurt and distraught.
- she thinks he’s had sex with another and eventually he explains he wanted to but couldn’t because he wants her- only her. He wanted to prove a point, that he didn’t feel anything for her. Great!
- the heroine wants to dump him and thinks that it’s the right time to tell him she doesn’t need him anymore and I was like yes, you go girl!! Do it! Doitdoitdoitdoit!!! Dump his sorry ass and tell him you’ve found a scholarship and he can go to hell! Because it was the right time to make him understand she was worthy of more than that, much more than that. And since the hero was already obsessed he would surely have accepted everything she offered to keep her.
But no, she decides she can’t risk losing him and doesn’t tell him anything.
That’s where I lost it.
WTF woman??????
- because her behavior is typical of an emotional dependent weak person, who is ready to accept every abuse for fear of losing the person she’s in a relationship with. Very sad, very depressing. Because he’s an emotional vampire and wants to have all the power in their relationship and she’s his perfect victim.
- I was so sad to see this perfect dysfunctional pattern of behavior that I almost stopped reading.
- but there’s more. Sadly.
- yes, their relationship changes a bit and they start having some dialogue between them, forming a slight emotional connection. But the coward selfish hero is still worried she could control him (she’s not the only one to have issues) and again!!!- he accepts a woman’s invitation to be her partner to an event. He only does it to prove he’s the stronger one and the heroine, instead of packing and leaving she BEGS!!!
My god that was embarrassing even for me that I wasn’t in the book, how low can an emotional co dependent person stoops in order to keep her partner. Even an abusive one like the hero. Because that’s what he is. Abusive.
- ok, eventually he won’t go because he realizes he can’t live without the heroine and explains he feels guilty because he was in an unhappy marriage and when his wife died he felt relieved but hey, I didn’t care a bit, he was no man IMO, to subject a young already battered woman to his tantrums.
- no cheating and no desire for any other women here so the book is technically very safe, but the fact he used ows to prove a point that he was the one with all the power in their relationship was maybe as bad as cheating. And I hate cheating, for me isn’t forgivable.
So that was bad. He knew he was hurting the heroine, he knew what she had to go through in her young life and still he never never once thought about her when he hurt her- emotionally. Tell me where’s his love for her here??
- this is no man for me, this is only a weak coward of an abuser that won’t resist one day with a strong woman by his side.
- and the heroine was a mess, dependent and unable to stand for herself. She let him stomp on her not once but twice and more, she wasn’t brave enough.
- I don’t believe in their HEA. No hea is possible in a relationship where one has all the power and is an abuser and the other is a victim. So the epilogue sounded very unlikely and wrong, as if it was the ending of another book.
- anyway I give three stars because it was really very angsty without cheating that is more than you can hope in present books. They are either lame or unacceptable with cheating aplenty. So this one was good.
- this goes on worst heroes shelf. I don’t condone an abusive behavior and actually the hero had no real trauma in his past that could justify such a callous behavior to each and every woman. I still believe in heroes who are protector of abused women, this was definitely not one.
- about the trigger or paid mistress/ escort this was really disturbing. Because it showed once again a weak selfish bastard exploiting a young helpless woman who really had no chance to go on with her studies than that. The chance was that she left uni and gave up her dream career for an unsatisfactory job. Was she right to sell herself? I don’t judge but surely she didn’t have many options, so I was more disgusted with the hero that didn’t bat a lid when he found out how bad was her situation and kept on exploiting her merciless than with her difficult decision. I don’t feel like judging her but I very much feel like judging him- very bad.
December 13, 2013
Jessica is a 20 year old college student who needs money desperately in order to complete her studies and get her much desired degree. Her mother is in jail, she has no idea who her father is and she has no one to turn to. Connor is a millionaire widower who wants sex but not emotional attachments so he decides the best way is to pay for a mistress. Of course he eventually gets more than he bargained for because they can't fight their feelings for long.
I loved it! I loved how innocent and pure Jessica was, how alpha, possessive and jealous Connor was and how vulnerable they both were. Most importantly there was NO cheating whatsoever. Oh and there is a cute adorable little epilogue!!!
I loved it! I loved how innocent and pure Jessica was, how alpha, possessive and jealous Connor was and how vulnerable they both were. Most importantly there was NO cheating whatsoever. Oh and there is a cute adorable little epilogue!!!
October 30, 2022
Great example how to shock me in the best way!! The feeling was similar to how I felt when reading Bass-Ackwards - startling arrangement, rough sex and jerkish Hero...
In the beginning I was worried that there would be no relationship development, and it will be all based on sex as it was with the mentioned book above. Thankfully, this is not the case - the MCs spend time to talk to each other beside sex.
The Hero was terrible in the beginning, esp. during the scene at the restaurant. I so wanted the heroine to through water in his face and leave... Like for real - which self respected Hero hires a prostitute anyway?? And then treats her like his inferior. I was glad there is a good explanation of his behaviour later on, and we grow to understand his reasons. There are also hints he's not willing to do this with just anyone, secretely he was waiting for someone like Jessica to show up - girl who needs the money but is not an experienced professional, and doesn't plan to stay one in the future.
Even though Jessica was no doormat, there was one point she bothered me with her begging, but seemed like without this development, things wouldn't end well for them.
There's some OW drama, same as OM drama, but surprisingly it didn't bother me as much, the OW drama mostly I mean. 😁 Connor explained everything and managed to redeem himself more than well.
April 17, 2019
Discard all rationality, ye who enter here.
This book is a delicious combination of everything that makes a cartoonish book re-readable: incredibly wrongheaded H whose laughable, warped value system was established following a run-of-the-mill tragedy; hopelessly naive h who stumbles into a situation that is way out of her frame of reference, yet amiably jumps through all the H's hoops, only to suddenly take a strong stand at certain junctures; use of bizarre or mundane statements or activities to illustrate dramatic changes in the relationship; crazy possessiveness, etc.
I must have read this book 5 times. It's a comforting ritual in times of high stress.
This book is a delicious combination of everything that makes a cartoonish book re-readable: incredibly wrongheaded H whose laughable, warped value system was established following a run-of-the-mill tragedy; hopelessly naive h who stumbles into a situation that is way out of her frame of reference, yet amiably jumps through all the H's hoops, only to suddenly take a strong stand at certain junctures; use of bizarre or mundane statements or activities to illustrate dramatic changes in the relationship; crazy possessiveness, etc.
I must have read this book 5 times. It's a comforting ritual in times of high stress.
March 12, 2017
3.75 stars. As mad as I was with Conner through a lot of this story, I really couldn't totally blame him. Jessica went into the situation up front knowing what it was. Did he send mixed signals constantly? Hell yes. So for that, I liked him less. The epilogue was pretty good.
October 23, 2024
2.5
I expected angst and the book delivered some of it. I wished there could have been more chest-clutching angst. He is protective of her and jealous when the heroine speaks to other guys. I thought he was sweet for deflowering her with some tenderness and intimacy.
"When you walked in, I thought I died and gone to heaven." <-- recalled off the top of my head so I may have a word or two incorrect.
After that, it was a week of non-intimate sex, where he f*cks her from behind once and leaves each night. I was shocked at how unattached he was about the whole thing that I asked myself a few times while reading, "How can people have sex with no emotion attached to it? I don't know if I could ever go through that (being a mistress)."
I thought the book could have used an epilogue. I felt like I didn't get to spend enough time with them being happy together and in love.
I expected angst and the book delivered some of it. I wished there could have been more chest-clutching angst. He is protective of her and jealous when the heroine speaks to other guys. I thought he was sweet for deflowering her with some tenderness and intimacy.
"When you walked in, I thought I died and gone to heaven." <-- recalled off the top of my head so I may have a word or two incorrect.
After that, it was a week of non-intimate sex, where he f*cks her from behind once and leaves each night. I was shocked at how unattached he was about the whole thing that I asked myself a few times while reading, "How can people have sex with no emotion attached to it? I don't know if I could ever go through that (being a mistress)."
I thought the book could have used an epilogue. I felt like I didn't get to spend enough time with them being happy together and in love.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 17, 2022
Wondering where this man got the audacity from. 🤡🔥
November 10, 2016
It's been a while since I've read a Lynda Chance book. She gives us great alphas who are ott and sexy. This story was no exception , however, it wasn't one of my favorites .
The hero was a jerk for nearly the entire book. He never really redeemed himself. He treated the heroine horribly then hid behind the excuse of their arrangement. His reasons for his behavior were pretty lame in my opinion.
The heroine was of the doormat variety. Desperate times had her taking drastic measures to make money for school. She let the hero treat her like crap, even when he was hurting her (emotionally). I do applaud her for finally taking a stand.
~ott, cold, older hero (28)
~desperate younger heroine (20)
~LOTS of pushing away by hero
~no cheating - both were faithful after meeting, but they were not in a relationship, it was an arrangement that she was there for him when he wanted sex and he paid her a monthly amount to use for school (you know, like a prostitute)
~ow drama
~om drama
~mediocre epilogue a few years out
This story was just ok for me. I have like Lynda Chance's books in the past so I will keep an eye on her next release .
The hero was a jerk for nearly the entire book. He never really redeemed himself. He treated the heroine horribly then hid behind the excuse of their arrangement. His reasons for his behavior were pretty lame in my opinion.
The heroine was of the doormat variety. Desperate times had her taking drastic measures to make money for school. She let the hero treat her like crap, even when he was hurting her (emotionally). I do applaud her for finally taking a stand.
~ott, cold, older hero (28)
~desperate younger heroine (20)
~LOTS of pushing away by hero
~no cheating - both were faithful after meeting, but they were not in a relationship, it was an arrangement that she was there for him when he wanted sex and he paid her a monthly amount to use for school (you know, like a prostitute)
~ow drama
~om drama
~mediocre epilogue a few years out
This story was just ok for me. I have like Lynda Chance's books in the past so I will keep an eye on her next release .
March 14, 2013
Overall it wasn't a bad read but it definitely wasn't my favorite LC.
* The H was an A$$hat for a good portion of the book. I understood about survivors guilt etc. but I thought it was a bit extreme.
* The sex in the first portion was clinical (which I know was the point but talk about wham, bam, thank you ma'am.
* The high-school type arguments between the H and the h (meaning the arguments they had in public) big pet peeve of mine is I cannot stand seeing adults arguing in public shouting and screaming. I think it is childish, immature and basically a show for other people. I really despise seeing it and I don't think highly of people who do it. (It's a big irritation in this book for me)
* I thought the ending was rushed.
What I liked.
* I loved that the author did not have her h giving up her education and career for a man.
* Loved that the H encouraged the h to get her education and supported her emotionally to reach her goals.
* Even though our h was young I thought she was a strong young woman and I liked that the author did not portray her as a simpering doormat.
Again overall not an awful read but definitely not one of my fav LC books.
* The H was an A$$hat for a good portion of the book. I understood about survivors guilt etc. but I thought it was a bit extreme.
* The sex in the first portion was clinical (which I know was the point but talk about wham, bam, thank you ma'am.
* The high-school type arguments between the H and the h (meaning the arguments they had in public) big pet peeve of mine is I cannot stand seeing adults arguing in public shouting and screaming. I think it is childish, immature and basically a show for other people. I really despise seeing it and I don't think highly of people who do it. (It's a big irritation in this book for me)
* I thought the ending was rushed.
What I liked.
* I loved that the author did not have her h giving up her education and career for a man.
* Loved that the H encouraged the h to get her education and supported her emotionally to reach her goals.
* Even though our h was young I thought she was a strong young woman and I liked that the author did not portray her as a simpering doormat.
Again overall not an awful read but definitely not one of my fav LC books.
February 20, 2022
Just loved it!
Story: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4.5)
Trope: relationship of convenience
Angst: 😱😱😱😱
Smexy: 🔥🔥🔥
This book was just so fantastic :) I love how the hero was just pulled into catching feelings against his will, lol. I loved the heroine and how sweet she was, but I really liked how principled she was despite the situation she found herself in. Cute story that left me with tissues ❤. I do wish we had a bit more time with them "together" other than just the epilogue, but 🤷🏻♀️ liked it a lot anyway!
Story: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4.5)
Trope: relationship of convenience
Angst: 😱😱😱😱
Smexy: 🔥🔥🔥
This book was just so fantastic :) I love how the hero was just pulled into catching feelings against his will, lol. I loved the heroine and how sweet she was, but I really liked how principled she was despite the situation she found herself in. Cute story that left me with tissues ❤. I do wish we had a bit more time with them "together" other than just the epilogue, but 🤷🏻♀️ liked it a lot anyway!
September 24, 2022
When he said he was in it only for the sex, he wasn't kidding.
OTT and very grumpy hero. I liked Marco's Redemption better.
OTT and very grumpy hero. I liked Marco's Redemption better.
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