3,5/5📚 4,5/5🌶️
ARC-Review!
Hold up, I remember that we got the chance to write some proposals for future books in this series but I thought the little short stories we got were the ones the proposals were for. But I’m pretty sure one of mine (maybe even two) was used in this book👉🏻👈🏻 I feel honored🤭.
I would’ve absolutely enjoyed a book solely about the daddy client (Josh included of course). Please Jade bless us with that!!!
The smut was 🔥, like always. Loved the variety in the proposals (and that proposals were included in the first place), especially the hunting scene with the masks was incredible!
I have to say Heath was my least favorite client from the entire series. His vibe just isn’t for me and I also realized that I don’t mind (in this context specifically) if the MC’s have other sex partners, but only when it’s separated. I’m not really a fan if both love interests invite a third person into their relationship but only for the sex part and at the same time one has a clear romantic affection that only targets one of the love interest though. I love reverse harems (so so much actually), I loved all of Ella’s MM, FM, FF, etc clients and I didn’t mind at all when it got mentioned that Josh is out to meet up with his own client, but seeing them both with another person gave me absolute jealousy loooool. (Don’t even know why, because I’m not even a jealous person in real life). So I was really intrigued as to how the storyline will play out in the first place and if Jade can make me like this trio dynamic.
“I feel like a (…) ghost on the sidelines, watching…”
This sums up most of their interactions, Ella on the side line and Heath and Josh being absolutely in love.
Result is I am still not a fan of Heath. I don’t know what it is exactly that bothers me about this character but I just can’t seem to catch his vibe. It’s just this cocky behavior and closeness with Josh while at the same time he is just a stranger to especially Ella.
I think I would’ve like him better if the scenario was either Josh and Heath are a couple and Ella joins in with the full intention of expanding this duo relationship to a trio relationship. Or the other way around Josh and Ella are a couple and they intentionally invite Heath into their relationship full time. But the here and there thrown in feelings for Heath, while at the same time him and Josh are so much closer and more intimate with each, while on top of that Ella and Josh are in a relationship is super confusing and gives me an underlying jealousy feeling just because everything is so unclear and it feels like (even though I know for sure this will not be the case) that Ella will get her heart broken again, because Josh will choose Heath.
I get that feeling because Ella never describes the way Heath looks at Josh when he looks at her, so there is just that imbalance in affection were Josh gets it from both but both only really get it from Josh. It feels like Josh and Heath have a connection but Heath and Ella don’t and that she just imagines a deeper relationship because Josh is so close with Heath. She is always on the sideline, it’s either the both do stuff together and she observes or all three of them do something, it’s never her and Heath alone, which doesn’t make a good ground for a trio relationship.
BUT I think throughout the end I did figure out what bothered me, it’s Heath dominance. When they played truth or dare and Josh switched into the dominant role while Heath and Ella were both the subs, for the first time I absolutely felt the vibe. In that moment I didn’t even care that Heath and Ella have no connection because their connection would be the submission to Josh, which doesn’t need any affection between the two. But when they’re not in any roles and Heath is more on the demanding side, that is the point were the imbalance is created. Because it always feels like Heath prefers Josh.
So I’m absolutely here for a relationship in which the roles are strict with Josh being the D and Heath and Ella being the S, but I’m absolutely not a fan when they’re no roles or both Heath and Josh are the D’s.