Highest Bidder Club Collection by Cassi Hart
Auctioned to My Boss
3.5 stars
Cat’s Stats
MMC/FMC- Easton and Sloane (definitely preppy names)
POV- 1st person dual
Genre- Contemporary Romance
Heat- 🌋🌋🌋. Jadies and Lentlemen, we have P and C words.
Series? Y
Safety? Y
Triggers- explicit erotic content and related language
Tropes- Bachelorette Auction, Virgin Heroine, Secret Crush, Alpha Male, Possessive, Instalove.
Mewsings
Another OTT Instalove story from Cassi Hart. I have enjoyed her work so far. It might not be Shakespeare, but it’s definitely entertaining. I’d give this one 3.5 stars because I didn’t feel like the book sold the Instalove, at least not on her part. He’s OTT with it, but I just wasn’t feeling it much from her.
Auctioned to My Best Friend
4 stars
Cat’s Stats
MMC/FMC- Caleb and Shana
POV- 1st person dual
Genre- Contemporary Romance
Heat- 🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋. They do the things often and use the C word. (And that scene up against the wall!)
Series? Y
Safety? Y, although the auction shows her intent is a little gray.
Triggers- Explicit Erotic Content, Language
Tropes- Virgin Heroine, That’s Not My Leg, Friends to Lovers, Bachelorette Auction, Secret Crush, Hybrid Hero (Cinnamon and Alpha Male Traits), Childhood Crush.
Mewsings
I loved Caleb and how he was all in with Shana. And I love the Friends to Lovers trope, especially when it’s a Childhood Crush. Shana had a case of Too Stupid To Live with signing up for the auction, and then she tries to do something ridiculous later in the book that really frustrated me. But I was involved enough with the story to feel frustrated, and a good book makes you feel. If you can get past the whole auction concept, this book is entertaining.
Auctioned to the Stranger
4 stars
MMC/FMC- Michael and April
POV- 1st person dual
Genre- Contemporary Romance
Length- novella
Heat- 🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋. Yea, they do the thing like unto bunnies and they use the P word; so it is written.
Series? Y
Safety- No cheating, but because her uncle is forcing her to sell her body, she is being trafficked. I don’t consider that Safe.
Triggers- trafficking, domestic violence, violence, language, explicit erotic content.
HEA? Y, with flash forward.
Tropes- Working-Class Hero, Bachelorette Auction, Ebil Guardian, Big Brother Instinct (Sister), Instalove.
What I liked- if you want OTT romance with an OTT premise and OTT hot zexytime, you want to read a Cassi Hart.
What I didn’t- I’m not crazy about the whole Auctioning-Off-The-Virginity thing. It’s kind of squicky. But in a Cassi Hart, it leads to a guaranteed HEA, so….
Auctioned to My Professor
5 stars
Cat’s Stats
MMC/FMC- Grady and Faye
Genre- Contemporary Romance
Length- 11 chapters and epilogue; approximately 80 pages
Heat- 🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋 They do the things and use the P word when naming the parts
Series? Y
Safety? Y
Triggers- explicit erotic content
Tropes- Age Gap, Auction, Instalove, The Naughty Professor, Safe Stalking, Secret Crush, Virgin Heroine
Mewsings
This is a steamy, steamy romance that is pure fantasy fulfillment. It’s fast and easy and deliciously filthy. Cassi Hart always delivers a Safe, smutty, Instalove romance. This one is the best story in the book.
Auctioned to the Billionaire
4 stars
Cat’s Stats
MMC/FMC- Brock and Felicia
Length- novella
Heat- 🌋🌋🌋🌋 with liberal use of the P word
Series? Y
Safety? Y
Triggers- explicit erotic content
Tropes- Age Gap, Auction, Best Friend’s Father, Secret Crush, She’s All Grown Up, Virgin Heroine
Mewsings
What I liked- I liked that although his crush on her was secret, he acknowledged to himself that she had a crush on him. It made it more interesting and realistic, although reality and Cassi Hart stories are not even neighborly.
What I didn’t- if he was so into her, you’d think he’d make it his business to learn about her home life. Just saying.
Overall:
My average score for these stories is 4/5 stars. They are over the top in the Cassi Hart way that makes them fun to read.
I received a free copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.