Ivy I hate him. I hate his cocky arrogance. I hate those stupid tattoos he’s covered in. I hate that s***-eating grin he’s got on his face when he looks at me.
I hate how he makes me feel every time those unsubtle eyes tell me exactly what he wants.
I hate that he’s living in my house. Walking around half naked. Tempting me with those rock-hard muscles.
I hate that I want his strong arms to grab me. To hold me. To pin me and make me scream.
I hate that he's totally off limits-- --when all I want is for him to make me HIS.
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Blake I don’t believe in this thing called love. F***king a different woman before every fight has been my tradition ever since the first day I’ve gone pro. Nobody but me sleeps in my bed for more than a night.
Ride her, take her, and leave her screaming my name hadn’t failed yet
But that was before Ivy. She’s like no girl I’ve met before. Innocent, pure, and forbidden.
Everything in me is screaming for me to corrupt her. To tease her. To make her find her inner bad.
To make her MINE.
Blake is a full-length, standalone taboo romance novel with steamy hot sex, strong language, an HEA ending and NO CLIFFHANGERS. Contains dark and disturbing themes, and over the top sexiness that may be uncomfortable for some readers.
Stepbrother bad boy... But Not really. He's just a one dimensional character who likes the heroine and who likes fighting. Heroine is just... heroine. then there's a stalker that, somehow or other, manages to elude all the security in the world to get to heroine.
this was not a good read. My only excuse is I was waiting for it to get better. It never did.
Disappointingly two dimensional. I have my doubts as to whether anyone attempted to proofread Blake. There were missing words, wrong words, poor conjugation... In hindsight, I should've taken the sentence "F***king a different woman before every fight has been my tradition ever since the first day I’ve gone pro." in the synopsis as a warning sign. Ouch.
A lot of time was wasted on this side plot with the heroine's ex. For those of you who were sold by the word "taboo" in the description, I really see no taboo in adult step-siblings being involved when they were publicly in a relationship before their parents were. Who cares? As for being "full-length, standalone"... it ends after a sex scene, with the words "to be continued". Standalone, my arse.
Blake was a good book. It could have been a great book if the writing errors were less. The storyline was good but the depth of characters could have been better.
I liked that they got together early in the book around 29% in. I like that real action was going on @ 50% in and continued to escalate through the remainder of the book. It is usually 50% they get together and 70% the action hits. I really wished the ending wasn't cut off the way it was i would have liked a closing epilogue to tie all the loose strings instead of just being left with the feeling of a happy future. Even with that said i found it to be a solid story. Few typos but not bad enough to ruin the book, I assume she is a self publishing author and a really good one at that. So the typos are forgiven easily because I didn't have to pay 10$ to read this story although it would have been worth it.
Just amazing! It was really good. Intense and sexy.... and a bit psychotic. It's kinda funny that they don't go through the stages with saying "I love you". I mean they just say it at each other and they aren't surprised by it, like most couples in books when getting back together. They just know that they love each other and have since high school. Daryl was pretty cuckoo! And his mom towards the end, just wow...bitch slap her. Pardon my language but she a bitch that's way too stuck up. Hate the Landons
***3 Stars - Average (It was good but nothing to brag about) Almost 4 Stars
The storyline was good. There was drama and action. Kept me intrigued but at the same time I couldn't wait until it finished. The synopsis to the book, I feel, was off. It made the heroine (Ivy) sound raunchier, when she wasn't. She was more of a goody-two-shoe. Blake is an attractive MMA fighter. Cocky, self-absorbed man. There was chemistry and the story takes a lot of turns.
I don't know what it is about the writing of this book that feels very wrong to me. Because of it, I couldn't actually finish it (skipped to the last chapter). It could've had potential, but instead of going into depth over basic things, it almost seemed like a list of things instead of thoughts and dialogue.
The back story was cool, and liked the characters. The author should've re-read the book before released. Lots of grammatical errors, she called the main character Blake the wrong name a few times and 10% of 10 million is not 100 thousand. But the story was ok, suspenseful at times but it lacked a good ending.
I couldn't get past the first chapter of this book. The whole thing sounded great in theory, but the way it was written really annoyed me. Proof reading does wonders too