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Muse - Part One
The first part of MUSE, a four-part new adult contemporary romance series from author Marie Martine.
Caterine Schwartz needs a job. Alaric White needs an assistant ...
After spending months caring for her dying mother and struggling to finish her library science degree, Caterine needs a job. Any job. Even one that requires experience she definitely doesn’t have.
Alaric needs a muse to help him finish his latest book, a sexy historical romance. After a year of fruitless searching, he’s ready to give up. He needs someone innocent enough and untouched enough to embody his character … yet brave enough to embark on a character’s journey into her deepest desires.
Caterine knows this isn’t the job for her. If her mother were still alive, she wouldn’t even be considering it. But the money is too good to ignore, and the way her sexy new boss looks at her with those dark burning eyes is making her crave things she never knew she wanted.
When Alaric learns of the past that connects their families, he knows he should let her go. It’s a secret that will make her hate him forever. But she is perfect as his character and after one night with her in his hotel room, he’s not ready to give up his muse just yet ...
Caterine Schwartz needs a job. Alaric White needs an assistant ...
After spending months caring for her dying mother and struggling to finish her library science degree, Caterine needs a job. Any job. Even one that requires experience she definitely doesn’t have.
Alaric needs a muse to help him finish his latest book, a sexy historical romance. After a year of fruitless searching, he’s ready to give up. He needs someone innocent enough and untouched enough to embody his character … yet brave enough to embark on a character’s journey into her deepest desires.
Caterine knows this isn’t the job for her. If her mother were still alive, she wouldn’t even be considering it. But the money is too good to ignore, and the way her sexy new boss looks at her with those dark burning eyes is making her crave things she never knew she wanted.
When Alaric learns of the past that connects their families, he knows he should let her go. It’s a secret that will make her hate him forever. But she is perfect as his character and after one night with her in his hotel room, he’s not ready to give up his muse just yet ...
- GenresNew Adult
81 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 19, 2015
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April 9, 2016
"It reanimated his inner Neanderthal from its frozen, dormant state."
"The asshole half of his personality screamed at him to just walk over, sit down and press his suit."
"The latent gentleman in him saw that she was completely unsettled by the idiot with the gun."
Anyone who writes in such a manner about a man can only be a woman. A woman not knowing how to write about men or how to put herself in their minds.
Well-meant advice: if you can't write from the male perspective, refrain from doing so. Unless you want the guy to come over as terminally girlish, and not in a male queeny way. Because unfortunately I lost immersion in the book right there (which is very much at the beginning!) and only skimmed over the rest. This book would have benefitted from a male betareader.
As to the rest: nothing new, nothing exciting, a mix and mash of a variety of bad boy tropes with Fifty Shades, so far minus the bad BDSM, but who knows what happens in the next books...? Ah yes, a serial, with cliffies.
"The asshole half of his personality screamed at him to just walk over, sit down and press his suit."
"The latent gentleman in him saw that she was completely unsettled by the idiot with the gun."
Anyone who writes in such a manner about a man can only be a woman. A woman not knowing how to write about men or how to put herself in their minds.
Well-meant advice: if you can't write from the male perspective, refrain from doing so. Unless you want the guy to come over as terminally girlish, and not in a male queeny way. Because unfortunately I lost immersion in the book right there (which is very much at the beginning!) and only skimmed over the rest. This book would have benefitted from a male betareader.
As to the rest: nothing new, nothing exciting, a mix and mash of a variety of bad boy tropes with Fifty Shades, so far minus the bad BDSM, but who knows what happens in the next books...? Ah yes, a serial, with cliffies.
March 15, 2018
Surprise!
The ending of part one was just that a surprise! I thought this story is going to be sexy. Two men one woman lots of sex and then I'm hit with a dying man who tried to drown a thirteen year old girl who turns out to be the mother of the new muse. Oh boy! looking forward to part two. What will happen now. I guess I'll see!
The ending of part one was just that a surprise! I thought this story is going to be sexy. Two men one woman lots of sex and then I'm hit with a dying man who tried to drown a thirteen year old girl who turns out to be the mother of the new muse. Oh boy! looking forward to part two. What will happen now. I guess I'll see!
December 27, 2016
Oh my god... This book.
This was kind of a creepy read. Alaric was a very pushy man, I felt like he didn't see Caterine as herself, he just saw her as the book character he was writing, referring to her several times as 'his Erica'.
The books he writes are very romantic and hot, with lots of 'may I do this' and 'may I do that', whereas he in real life is quite forceful, persistent and pushy.
Caterine seems like a fairly interesting character with a basic backstory, but she's not a vast exciting and developed character that wanted me to read on.
This book had a good premise (a writer trying to find his muse), but was really just about a creepy man wanting to live out the fantasies he writes in his books by seducing young and innocent women and coercing them into working for him. He used Caterine's lack of money against her, giving her no other option but to take his luxurious job, which was definitely a dick move. He also purposefully fed her sob stories about his family dying so she'd feel sorry for him and work for him.. He's manipulative and just an ass, basically.
The only interesting things were the premise, and Alaric's family history and how it intertwined with Caterine's. Other than that, it was really bad and I definitely won't be continuing on with this series.
This was kind of a creepy read. Alaric was a very pushy man, I felt like he didn't see Caterine as herself, he just saw her as the book character he was writing, referring to her several times as 'his Erica'.
The books he writes are very romantic and hot, with lots of 'may I do this' and 'may I do that', whereas he in real life is quite forceful, persistent and pushy.
Caterine seems like a fairly interesting character with a basic backstory, but she's not a vast exciting and developed character that wanted me to read on.
This book had a good premise (a writer trying to find his muse), but was really just about a creepy man wanting to live out the fantasies he writes in his books by seducing young and innocent women and coercing them into working for him. He used Caterine's lack of money against her, giving her no other option but to take his luxurious job, which was definitely a dick move. He also purposefully fed her sob stories about his family dying so she'd feel sorry for him and work for him.. He's manipulative and just an ass, basically.
The only interesting things were the premise, and Alaric's family history and how it intertwined with Caterine's. Other than that, it was really bad and I definitely won't be continuing on with this series.
April 23, 2016
Good book
This was an interesting read. I liked the characters and the way they interacted. I loved the way it all worked together.
This was an interesting read. I liked the characters and the way they interacted. I loved the way it all worked together.
April 20, 2016
Too short
This book is a very quick read but it makes you want to keep reading with it ending with a cliff hanger
This book is a very quick read but it makes you want to keep reading with it ending with a cliff hanger
October 16, 2015
Good story. Good characters. Can't wait to see what happens next.
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