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Justified Temptation
How long could you stay faithful?
Naomi Devereux is the most devoted married woman in the world. Or so she thought until she is stranded on an island with the gray-eyed, masculine Guy Harrington. She loves her husband, her best friend since college, even when she gives up hope of ever seeing him again. What she’s left with are her survival instincts and her undeniable physical attraction to Guy, who provokes a sexual awakening she’s never experienced.
Even the most faithful women have a breaking point.
Naomi Devereux is the most devoted married woman in the world. Or so she thought until she is stranded on an island with the gray-eyed, masculine Guy Harrington. She loves her husband, her best friend since college, even when she gives up hope of ever seeing him again. What she’s left with are her survival instincts and her undeniable physical attraction to Guy, who provokes a sexual awakening she’s never experienced.
Even the most faithful women have a breaking point.
262 pages, ebook
Published January 1, 2018
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January 10, 2021
It’s a different story, but I like a lot! A uncommon place to survive but to fall in love!
January 12, 2021
Survival romance...
Ok so this book isn’t bad. It’s a survival romance where both parties who are stranded are married. The heroine is in love with her husband, but the hero is in the process of divorcing his wife. So when the attraction between them is sparking, it’s made even harder since only one of them is opposed to acting on it. All in all this was a good read. It’s sort of quick, so I think that does a disservice to the ability to buy that these two had no hopes of getting off the island. I think these romances for me need to have a slow burn if either party is “in love” with someone else.
But it’s still a decent read.
Ok so this book isn’t bad. It’s a survival romance where both parties who are stranded are married. The heroine is in love with her husband, but the hero is in the process of divorcing his wife. So when the attraction between them is sparking, it’s made even harder since only one of them is opposed to acting on it. All in all this was a good read. It’s sort of quick, so I think that does a disservice to the ability to buy that these two had no hopes of getting off the island. I think these romances for me need to have a slow burn if either party is “in love” with someone else.
But it’s still a decent read.
October 21, 2018
This is a stranded on a deserted island romance.
4 stars overall
5 stars plus for the first half, 3.5 stars for the second half
********This isn't for everyone!********
Forbidden love story. Both H and h are married to other people. The H was in the process of a divorce. He had just finalized his divorce agreement with his wife.
H - 85% alpha 15% beta on the island. Morphs into a Beta after they're rescued.
h - Some of you wont like her. She's not unlikable nor is she a b*tch but she's unfaithful to her husband & struggles with her infidelity. Later, she rejects H's love for a time because she goes back to her husband.
Sex - steamy/open door
Triggers - cheating
First person from h's pov
HEA with satisfying epilogue
If you were married and found yourself stranded on a deserted island with a hot, sexy guy who wanted you and made no secret that he wanted you, what would you do? From the moment the H and h met, there were sexual undercurrents between them. It only increases as the two fight to survive. They're alone. Thrown together by circumstances beyond their control and dependant upon one another. While the h fights her attraction to the H, it's clear early on that he's not fighting it.
4 stars overall
5 stars plus for the first half, 3.5 stars for the second half
********This isn't for everyone!********
Forbidden love story. Both H and h are married to other people. The H was in the process of a divorce. He had just finalized his divorce agreement with his wife.
H - 85% alpha 15% beta on the island. Morphs into a Beta after they're rescued.
h - Some of you wont like her. She's not unlikable nor is she a b*tch but she's unfaithful to her husband & struggles with her infidelity. Later, she rejects H's love for a time because she goes back to her husband.
Sex - steamy/open door
Triggers - cheating
First person from h's pov
HEA with satisfying epilogue
If you were married and found yourself stranded on a deserted island with a hot, sexy guy who wanted you and made no secret that he wanted you, what would you do? From the moment the H and h met, there were sexual undercurrents between them. It only increases as the two fight to survive. They're alone. Thrown together by circumstances beyond their control and dependant upon one another. While the h fights her attraction to the H, it's clear early on that he's not fighting it.
June 16, 2018
Justified Temptation is an interesting book to immediately follow Lockwood’s last release, Things You Can’t Take. While that book powerfully and seriously explores the effects of harmful sexual experience from a woman’s perspective, this one joyfully celebrates positive feminine sexuality. Now hey, I understand that the premise of this book is steamy desert-island meets beloved and familiar romance, but I loved how Justified Temptation captures something about what we as women love about being romantically, sexually ourselves. Justified Temptation checks all of the boxes you’re probably hoping to get checked here. Guy is the guy you want him to be. He is decisive, protective, tough, unapologetically sexual, but sensitive and caring underneath it all. He’s also a bit arrogant, moody, and insensitive at times. You know, a man. Not that there isn’t great diversity in the types of men that there can be, but this is a straightforward, intuitive, oh-yeah-that-kind-of-man man and it’s a pleasure to read him. Naomi is similar. She’s not every woman. No one is every woman. But she embodies some things that many of us identify in ourselves to varying degrees. Naomi is both strong and vulnerable. She is caring, playful, and competent, yet unsure of herself. She’s also sometimes indecisive, needy, and otherwise bratty. We know, right? Mostly we identify with her desires. So many of us struggle to own our desires, don’t we? Naomi wants a partner that is a companion, friend, and confidant. She wants motherhood and family. She wants to do the right thing and be a good person. She also wants to be lit up. Awakened. She wants a man to pursue her, hungrily, greedily. She wants to be desired and passionately had by a man. She wants to be challenged to explore, liberate, and integrate the deep parts of her that she hasn’t had the gall to be honest with herself about. Many of us can relate. As the relationship between the two develops we get a refreshingly straightforward depiction of this polarity. But again, this is the summer beach read that you are wanting. It will go down easy, and it’s legit hot at points. Don’t let my rambling here make you think that it is a slogging meditation on the nuance of masculine/feminine psycho-sexual dynamics. It’s not some mindless sex-for-sex’s-sake garbage, though. Justified Temptation is a compulsively readable and totally satisfying narrative that functions both as a stand-alone chick-lit good time and also as a perfect compliment to Lockwood’s previous work surrounding related topics. A delight.
June 24, 2022
This book is a 2.5 that I'm rounding up to 3 stars. It wasn't bad but I wouldn't say it was great either. With the premise this book has, it should have been longer and the romance should have been a slow-burn. The hero and heroine were fine, I didn't hate them but I was never invested in their relationship. Come to think of it I wasn't invested in anything, I was mostly reading to kill time and to finish the book.
The best part of the book was when the hero talked about how he cheated on his wife, and then she cheated on him with his brother. I tip my hat to that lady, she is the level of petty I aspire to be.
The best part of the book was when the hero talked about how he cheated on his wife, and then she cheated on him with his brother. I tip my hat to that lady, she is the level of petty I aspire to be.
June 27, 2018
Naomi Deveraux and Guy Harrington end up stranded on an island after their plane to New York crashes into the ocean. Guy comes to Naomi’s rescue at every turn after their only salvation is an island in the middle of nowhere. Naomi was happily married, but her hope of ever going back home deteriorates with each passing day. As her hope fades, her attraction to Guy becomes stronger. Guy is the mix of a perfect man: strong, caring, and protective. He can be brash and arrogant at times, but it only hides the man he really is: a softy with a kind heart.
I loved the chemistry and bickering back and forth between the two characters! I found it to be amusing and entertaining. The love between Naomi and her husband paled in comparison to Naomi and Guy’s explosive chemistry. They fought and they made up, but their relationship thrived on the passion for one another.
This story was told in the first person in Naomi’s POV. I love stranded island books and this one doesn’t disappoint!
*I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
I loved the chemistry and bickering back and forth between the two characters! I found it to be amusing and entertaining. The love between Naomi and her husband paled in comparison to Naomi and Guy’s explosive chemistry. They fought and they made up, but their relationship thrived on the passion for one another.
This story was told in the first person in Naomi’s POV. I love stranded island books and this one doesn’t disappoint!
*I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
July 29, 2018
**4.00 Blushes**
Naomi Deveraux is a woman born with a silver spoon in her mouth. A philanthropist that feels the need to give back instead of eating bon-bons all day. Her husband, Charles is kind and dotes on her. Their marriage loving and solid.
Guy Harrington is soon to be divorced from his beautiful supermodel wife. Theirs was a marriage for appearances and not a love match. He's an adventurer that enjoys climbing famous mountain peaks.
A citywide school crisis means Naomi must leave the family vacation and go back to New York. Her time management issue keeps the private plane and it's one other passenger (Guy) waiting for her. Needless to say it starts things off on the wrong foot and these two won't soon become friends. Until their plane falls out of the sky and these two strangers must now fight to survive. I thought I'll read a few chapters and go to bed. Nope! I read the whole thing!
Justified Temptation is told from Naomi's POV. Her love and commitment to her husband, their plans for a baby, her work, it was everything to her. Now all that seems really far away. Guy has a duality to his personality. Jerk one second and fierce protector the next. All bets are off - the bonds of civility do not apply in this situation.
How to manage this passion between Naomi and Guy despite her love for Charles? It was inevitable that after such high stress events and faced with maybe never going home these two people would draw closer to each other.
As an aside – what are the chances that both engines would fail on a private plane that only expected to carry two passengers?
This was an angsty, sexy, well written story with just enough twist thrown in to keep it interesting throughout.
Naomi Deveraux is a woman born with a silver spoon in her mouth. A philanthropist that feels the need to give back instead of eating bon-bons all day. Her husband, Charles is kind and dotes on her. Their marriage loving and solid.
Guy Harrington is soon to be divorced from his beautiful supermodel wife. Theirs was a marriage for appearances and not a love match. He's an adventurer that enjoys climbing famous mountain peaks.
A citywide school crisis means Naomi must leave the family vacation and go back to New York. Her time management issue keeps the private plane and it's one other passenger (Guy) waiting for her. Needless to say it starts things off on the wrong foot and these two won't soon become friends. Until their plane falls out of the sky and these two strangers must now fight to survive. I thought I'll read a few chapters and go to bed. Nope! I read the whole thing!
Justified Temptation is told from Naomi's POV. Her love and commitment to her husband, their plans for a baby, her work, it was everything to her. Now all that seems really far away. Guy has a duality to his personality. Jerk one second and fierce protector the next. All bets are off - the bonds of civility do not apply in this situation.
How to manage this passion between Naomi and Guy despite her love for Charles? It was inevitable that after such high stress events and faced with maybe never going home these two people would draw closer to each other.
As an aside – what are the chances that both engines would fail on a private plane that only expected to carry two passengers?
This was an angsty, sexy, well written story with just enough twist thrown in to keep it interesting throughout.
July 24, 2018
Angst 2
Tears 1
Value 4
Storyline 4
Panty Scorching 4
Overall Rating 4
Kindle eArc provided by Author
Reviewed by Lindsey
This is a completely new author to me so I was super excited to read this book. It's a standalone. Super intense story. It takes off quickly and keeps up intensity throughout. Definitely had me on my toes for sure. I really thought the flow of the story and writing was amazing. I just wanted MORE! I fell for the characters and especially Guy's moody alpha ways. He made me swoon and want to throat punch him at times as well.
Over all I really enjoyed this read. Fast paced and very detailed. It made for an easy book to get lost in for sure. I look forward to more books by Erin and I can't wait to see where they take me.
Tears 1
Value 4
Storyline 4
Panty Scorching 4
Overall Rating 4
Kindle eArc provided by Author
Reviewed by Lindsey
This is a completely new author to me so I was super excited to read this book. It's a standalone. Super intense story. It takes off quickly and keeps up intensity throughout. Definitely had me on my toes for sure. I really thought the flow of the story and writing was amazing. I just wanted MORE! I fell for the characters and especially Guy's moody alpha ways. He made me swoon and want to throat punch him at times as well.
Over all I really enjoyed this read. Fast paced and very detailed. It made for an easy book to get lost in for sure. I look forward to more books by Erin and I can't wait to see where they take me.
July 9, 2018
Angst 2
Tears 1
Value 4
Storyline 4
Panty Scorching 4
Overall Rating 4
This is a completely new author to me so I was super excited to read this book. Its standalone. Super intense story. It takes off quickly and keeps up intensity throughout. Definitely had me on my toes for sure. I really thought the flow of the story and writing was amazing. I just wanted MORE! I fell for the characters and especially Guy's moody alpha ways. He made me swoon and want to throat punch him at times as well.
Over all I really enjoyed this read. Fast paced and very detailed. It made for an easy book to get lost in for sure. I look forward to more books by Erin and I cant wait to see where they take me.
Tears 1
Value 4
Storyline 4
Panty Scorching 4
Overall Rating 4
This is a completely new author to me so I was super excited to read this book. Its standalone. Super intense story. It takes off quickly and keeps up intensity throughout. Definitely had me on my toes for sure. I really thought the flow of the story and writing was amazing. I just wanted MORE! I fell for the characters and especially Guy's moody alpha ways. He made me swoon and want to throat punch him at times as well.
Over all I really enjoyed this read. Fast paced and very detailed. It made for an easy book to get lost in for sure. I look forward to more books by Erin and I cant wait to see where they take me.
July 11, 2018
FIVE STARS!
Erin Lockwood did an excellent job with “Justified Temptation.” This was the first book I’ve read by this author.
Naomi and Guy couldn’t stand each other from the moment they first met on the plane then they have to survive with each other after the crash. There was so much intense passion and survival. From the beginning to the end, I could not put the book down! This was a quick and wonderful read for me and I highly recommend it.
Erin Lockwood did an excellent job with “Justified Temptation.” This was the first book I’ve read by this author.
Naomi and Guy couldn’t stand each other from the moment they first met on the plane then they have to survive with each other after the crash. There was so much intense passion and survival. From the beginning to the end, I could not put the book down! This was a quick and wonderful read for me and I highly recommend it.
June 28, 2018
This is an amazing book! I couldn't put it down, and spent the whole day reading it. I was so captivated by the story line and even formed attachments to the characters. The ending was by far my favorite, and had me in tears! I highly recommend this book!!
June 14, 2018
A absolute justified guilty pleasure! A quick and fun read, and I love the Benedict/Beatrice aspect behind Guy and Naomi.
June 11, 2018
Whoa, this was steamy! It's not one of those books where sex is on every page, or even every chapter. The build up of the sexual tension between the two characters was intense and I felt it was realistic. With that said, the plot wasn't exactly realistic. But it was fun, not to be taken too seriously. The writing flows so well, I finished it in two days.
June 12, 2018
I love how Guy and Naomi bicker with each other. It felt so natural and real as I read it. Yes, it was a cliche story, but the characters are what really drew me in. It was a guilty pleasure to read and I loved every juicy word of it.
July 28, 2019
This was a "devour in one sitting" book for me; once I started I couldn't put it down. I loved the main characters and was drawn in to every moment of their survival story. Without wanting to leave spoilers I felt the ending was very fitting and a great end to the story....
November 21, 2020
Very Good ‘On A Deserted Island’ Love Story
(I’m likely far removed from the target audience - take my review with a grain of salt)
I enjoy a good story about a couple that is shipwrecked/stranded. In my opinion there aren’t a lot of options for this trope that are an entertaining read. Justified Temptation makes that small list of entertaining reads: 5 stars for a more original plot than shipwrecked-survive-fall in love-rescued (in this story they’re not on the island for a very extended time, the oft unseen marriage/infidelity subplot), 4 stars for the writing(less fluff, less repetitive nonsense), 3.75 stars for how the plot eventually unfolds.
(SPOILER ALERT) Plot issues(only a few gripes): 1, I was looking forward to a bigger mother in law confrontation. 2, Guy was too much of a sap toward the end (seemingly gives everything away - unnecessary for him to prove his devotion to Naomi) 3, a few times Guy was just far too over the top abrasive.
What I did like: 1, island life had realism yet enough fantasy to keep it from being the story of two malnourished, unwashed, unkempt suffering people. 2, The realism of how Naomi comes to the decision with Charles. It’s completely understandable how she was desperately trying to hold on to what was known, safe and comfortable. While the island experience had starkly changed her, she still needed some days/conversations with Charles to find inner strength/make the non safe decision. 3, Naomi’s character and its progression, to me, came across very realistic. She was of little help in the beginning (her life experiences didn’t lend themselves to being ready to be of much help). Yet as island time/experience progressed, she was able to become a useful compliment to Guy.
Definite good work done by the author...
(I’m likely far removed from the target audience - take my review with a grain of salt)
I enjoy a good story about a couple that is shipwrecked/stranded. In my opinion there aren’t a lot of options for this trope that are an entertaining read. Justified Temptation makes that small list of entertaining reads: 5 stars for a more original plot than shipwrecked-survive-fall in love-rescued (in this story they’re not on the island for a very extended time, the oft unseen marriage/infidelity subplot), 4 stars for the writing(less fluff, less repetitive nonsense), 3.75 stars for how the plot eventually unfolds.
(SPOILER ALERT) Plot issues(only a few gripes): 1, I was looking forward to a bigger mother in law confrontation. 2, Guy was too much of a sap toward the end (seemingly gives everything away - unnecessary for him to prove his devotion to Naomi) 3, a few times Guy was just far too over the top abrasive.
What I did like: 1, island life had realism yet enough fantasy to keep it from being the story of two malnourished, unwashed, unkempt suffering people. 2, The realism of how Naomi comes to the decision with Charles. It’s completely understandable how she was desperately trying to hold on to what was known, safe and comfortable. While the island experience had starkly changed her, she still needed some days/conversations with Charles to find inner strength/make the non safe decision. 3, Naomi’s character and its progression, to me, came across very realistic. She was of little help in the beginning (her life experiences didn’t lend themselves to being ready to be of much help). Yet as island time/experience progressed, she was able to become a useful compliment to Guy.
Definite good work done by the author...
June 6, 2024
Wanted a deserted island story, wanted slow burn, wanted angst, wanted complex characters who make bad decisions.
Bruh they were stuck there for six weeks and couldn’t kept it in their pants for like a month 🙄 (And have sex while she thinks she’s pregnant with a miracle baby UNPROTECTED).
Narrative tries to paint FMC as a saint. Honestly, she was really annoying and over dramatic and was most of the reason why it went from a possible three star to a two. MMC couldn’t pull his weight either. He’s cheated on his wife first (with another woman not FMC) but he was butthurt about his wife revenge cheating with his brother (good for her, I thought). When FMC brings it up, he acts angry with her and says it’s in the past. Very reassuring.
I didn’t love the need to undermine the spouses either. Typical “my husband can’t make me orgasm” where if she can’t be a real virgin she has to be a technical virgin who never enjoyed sex before the MMC came along. In this story she has to use a vibrator to climax with her husband until the MMC comes along and shows her “real sex”. The FMC calls the wife a snide bitch when the wife tells her she doesn’t care where her husband is—AFTER her husband has cheated on her and has finally conceded to her demands on divorce so she won’t reveal his affair (where previously he was fighting for her to get nothing. Yeah, FMC leaves her caring loyal husband who cries for her and takes her side against his mother—for that).
Honestly starting to think they deserve each other. Even though they have no chemistry. Yeah there’s physical attraction but honestly do I buy that they’re in love? Not really. Felt like that author added that 1 year time skip to convince us they won’t break up in another month.
Bruh they were stuck there for six weeks and couldn’t kept it in their pants for like a month 🙄 (And have sex while she thinks she’s pregnant with a miracle baby UNPROTECTED).
Narrative tries to paint FMC as a saint. Honestly, she was really annoying and over dramatic and was most of the reason why it went from a possible three star to a two. MMC couldn’t pull his weight either. He’s cheated on his wife first (with another woman not FMC) but he was butthurt about his wife revenge cheating with his brother (good for her, I thought). When FMC brings it up, he acts angry with her and says it’s in the past. Very reassuring.
I didn’t love the need to undermine the spouses either. Typical “my husband can’t make me orgasm” where if she can’t be a real virgin she has to be a technical virgin who never enjoyed sex before the MMC came along. In this story she has to use a vibrator to climax with her husband until the MMC comes along and shows her “real sex”. The FMC calls the wife a snide bitch when the wife tells her she doesn’t care where her husband is—AFTER her husband has cheated on her and has finally conceded to her demands on divorce so she won’t reveal his affair (where previously he was fighting for her to get nothing. Yeah, FMC leaves her caring loyal husband who cries for her and takes her side against his mother—for that).
Honestly starting to think they deserve each other. Even though they have no chemistry. Yeah there’s physical attraction but honestly do I buy that they’re in love? Not really. Felt like that author added that 1 year time skip to convince us they won’t break up in another month.
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June 17, 2023
I should have known this was going to be bad when I read what the two main characters names were. Top 2 worst character names of all time. Wasn’t good. Pace didn’t make sense. Sometimes Guy would show up in a scene out of nowhere. It was weird and really hard to follow those parts.
“Nay” is a terrible nickname for Naomi. Like are you a horse mam? Bad all around but also the best 1 star read I’ve ever read. If that makes sense lol
“Nay” is a terrible nickname for Naomi. Like are you a horse mam? Bad all around but also the best 1 star read I’ve ever read. If that makes sense lol
October 6, 2024
Interesting Read
I enjoyed this book....never a dull moment. It will make you laugh and cry. I couldn't give it a 5-star unfortunately because like the majority of the books I have read, there are too many grammatical errors and typos. I should probably quit my day job and become a proofreader! However, it is a good book and worth the read🤗
I enjoyed this book....never a dull moment. It will make you laugh and cry. I couldn't give it a 5-star unfortunately because like the majority of the books I have read, there are too many grammatical errors and typos. I should probably quit my day job and become a proofreader! However, it is a good book and worth the read🤗
July 10, 2018
A solid 4.5 Stars.
I really enjoyed the style of this story and while I thought it may be too predictable, I enjoyed it and understood the progression of the characters and storyline. Also once I was a quarter into the book I was hooked and absolutely loved it!
I really enjoyed the style of this story and while I thought it may be too predictable, I enjoyed it and understood the progression of the characters and storyline. Also once I was a quarter into the book I was hooked and absolutely loved it!
July 7, 2020
Read this in one day. It is a good what if. Plane crash stuck on an island. Makes you evaluate your life. Plus pretty hard not to get connected with the other survivor. Especially if he is gorgeous. Life's decisions.
June 30, 2018
Justified Temptation had a very compelling plot, that kept me reading late into the night. I LOVE books that have the spicy stuff WITH good characters and a story.
July 24, 2018
Perfect summer read!
July 31, 2018
This is a fun book to read if you don't take it too seriously. I love how easy the writing is. The story really flows and the character development is great.
May 2, 2020
The film Cast Away and Wilson the Volleyball were flashing through my head every time Naomi spoke. I decided Wilson was more fun!
January 14, 2021
Justified Temptation is a very standard but enjoyable castaway romance. Good for fans of adventure romance and survival plots.
December 10, 2025
Meh. It was okay. The mfc wasnt very likeable. They didnt seem very in love. This is one of my favourite tropes, but it was only so so.
November 24, 2019
Loooooved this book! Steamy scenes, likable characters, moral dilemma... what else could I ask for?!
July 19, 2018
Fun, quick, easy beach read. With the right balance of tension and romance, I was hooked immediately and finished this in one day. Great if you’re looking for a light read.
* I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
* I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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