Rating: 2.5 stars
The story: The h is an architect, recently moving from the US to London; she works for a company who’s offices reside in a skyscraper that the H owns. They meet, start secretly having a “no-strings” relationship that quickly develops strings. The initial drama is that he’s a genius that goes a little nuts sometimes when he gets an idea for some kind of tech or whatever, and NEEDS to figure out how to get it on paper and bring it to life. The h makes it her mission to distract him from these almost manic episodes, and get him to relax and have fun. The story then shifts to the H’s past coming back to haunt him, which involves gangs, and being from a mob family, and escaping that life, and it’s all just very disjointed.
My thoughts:
I was hoping for more rawness in the steamy scenes; something more passionate, and playful, and adventurous (at least in the beginning, when they were JUST in it for the physical). Maybe some light BDSM. Don't get me wrong - their whole dang relationship is based on sex, but it seems like for the majority of the scenes, we got more of the mental/emotional aspects of it than the physical. And unfortunately physical aspects of the writing were just kind of okay... Probably because it was always interrupted with a bunch of talking. It just didn't quite scratch my itch. I also didn’t love the overall story arc. It seems that the writer had different ideas for the H in the first two installments, and then pivoted and decided to go in a different direction. Some of the reveals just seemed so “tacked-on”. Overall, I liked the H a lot, but didn’t really think all that highly about the h.
Heat Level: Moderate. There was a crap ton of lovin’, but it didn’t really do anything for me
Would I read more from this author: I’m not sure. Probably not on purpose.