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The Dare
Have you ever had one of those really bad days at work?
You know, one where your hot boss catches you photocopying your backside in his office?
No? Just me then?
I blame my bestie and partner in chaos.
She challenged me with a not-so-innocent dare that I should’ve flat out declined.
But I’m an adrenaline junkie, and now, here I am.
I know it sounds crazy, and daredevil tendencies aside, I definitely went too far to get his attention.
But you haven’t seen him.
Colton Wolfe. My boss.
Tall, dark, and handsome, with the sexiest British accent I’ve ever heard.
His only flaw? That he’s completely oblivious to what’s been right in front of him all along.
Me.
Well, he was until a few minutes ago.
Remember those good old days?
Before I got caught making "nice" with the copy machine, and before I was totally getting fired?
But wait. Maybe I’m not.
If I can take on the biggest dare of all.
Making Colton Wolfe fall in love with me.
The Dare is a full-length romance with a HEA and no cliffhanger.
You know, one where your hot boss catches you photocopying your backside in his office?
No? Just me then?
I blame my bestie and partner in chaos.
She challenged me with a not-so-innocent dare that I should’ve flat out declined.
But I’m an adrenaline junkie, and now, here I am.
I know it sounds crazy, and daredevil tendencies aside, I definitely went too far to get his attention.
But you haven’t seen him.
Colton Wolfe. My boss.
Tall, dark, and handsome, with the sexiest British accent I’ve ever heard.
His only flaw? That he’s completely oblivious to what’s been right in front of him all along.
Me.
Well, he was until a few minutes ago.
Remember those good old days?
Before I got caught making "nice" with the copy machine, and before I was totally getting fired?
But wait. Maybe I’m not.
If I can take on the biggest dare of all.
Making Colton Wolfe fall in love with me.
The Dare is a full-length romance with a HEA and no cliffhanger.
302 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 31, 2020
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Lauren Landish
183 books6,795 followersLauren Landish is a WALL STREET JOURNAL & USA TODAY bestselling author and her books have garnered a legion of praise from her readers.
When she’s not plotting about how she will introduce you to your next sexy as hell book boyfriend, you can find her deep, deep in her writing cave, furiously tapping away on her keyboard, writing scenes that would make even a hardened sailor blush.
Lauren, who lives in NC with her boyfriend and fur baby, warmly invites you to her worlds of rock hard abs, chiseled smiles, and men with deep, fat pockets…but beware! These stories are guaranteed to have you addicted and needing your next fix!
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When she’s not plotting about how she will introduce you to your next sexy as hell book boyfriend, you can find her deep, deep in her writing cave, furiously tapping away on her keyboard, writing scenes that would make even a hardened sailor blush.
Lauren, who lives in NC with her boyfriend and fur baby, warmly invites you to her worlds of rock hard abs, chiseled smiles, and men with deep, fat pockets…but beware! These stories are guaranteed to have you addicted and needing your next fix!
Visit Lauren's Website at: http://www.laurenlandish.com/
Join the Mailing list at: http://www.subscribepage.com/w1h8x6
Connect with me on Facebook: www.facebook.com/lauren.landish
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February 25, 2020
***3 STARS*** I really, really, really tried but I just couldn’t make it through. This was a DNF for me. I couldn’t get over how immature and childish the heroine was. The hero Colton sounded sexy but I cannot imagine anyone wanting to get with Elle. I love a romcom but this was not my cup of tea. Still love the author though.
February 4, 2020
Title: ➳ ❤- The Dare
Author: ➳ Lauren Landish
Publication:, Publication: February 7th 2020
💖💖💖💖
😈😈😈😈
ღ . Elle Stryker & her bestie, (Tiffany) live for their dares. There are both one those people that say YOLO & if someone said those magic words— I dare you —they are pretty much there.
Both women have been working at FOX Industries for some time now! Elle father is Daniel Stryker & he’s a vice-president Fox Industries, a multi-billion-dollar corporation. Elle refuses to take job in her father’s dept, for fear of not being took seriously
Tiffany knew that Elle has thing for Colton Wolfe for some time, & when Elle is send to Colton office after hours. Tiffany has Elle risking everything to completable her crazy dare!
Colton Wolfe & Daniel Stryker are both in competition for position of the new President of Fox HQ2
Will Colton think Elle some type of crazed stalker or spy for her father. when he finds her in his office in compromise position?
Or will Colton use Elle need for adventure & thrills against her?
Note: this was fun read. But some of the so call dares, shouldn’t have put under categories of dares. But that’s just me!
Now one of the funnies things to me was the scene at the airport with the TSA & Elle… I swear I laugh so damn hard I thought that I was going pee myself
➦📚 *Hope you enjoy this read & also always keep in mind this is just my opinion+ Also I wouldn’t never discourage anyone from reading this book.
➦*I received an ecopy of this book from the author in exchange for my honest review of it. 💕
💕 . .**This has not influenced my review.* **
Happy Reading & Enjoy --------Paulette Alphas Review
April 21, 2020
"curiosity won’t kill the cat. I chuckle to myself at the Americanism"
Fun fact. NOT an Americanism. It's actually British. As were a good portion of the idioms he just "didn't get" because he's British. Did you know he was British? He's British.
This book had so many euphemisms for a blow job. Fun.
But honestly, we get it. He was British. And the Brits are soooooooooo different from US. We get it.
Fun fact. NOT an Americanism. It's actually British. As were a good portion of the idioms he just "didn't get" because he's British. Did you know he was British? He's British.
This book had so many euphemisms for a blow job. Fun.
But honestly, we get it. He was British. And the Brits are soooooooooo different from US. We get it.
February 13, 2020
The Dare wasn’t my first Lauren Landish book. I found the quality of the previous ones I’ve read inconsistent rating anywhere from 2.5-5 stars. I’m not sure what I expected from a book titled The Dare? I suppose I should have expected what I got. I guess this is supposed to be a funny, flirty and sexy little contemporary romance. Honestly until Elle and Colton finally get together I was ready to put this one aside and go on to another book as you'll plainly see in this review. But I didn't give up on it and I'm glad I didn't.
Elle and her BFF Tiffany are I would guess 23 or 24 years old since they are two years out of college. Unfortunately, they act more like they’re two years out of high school. Maybe I’m too old or maybe its’ the father in me because I raised five daughters, but these two young women seemed to have a lot of growing up to do. About the only commendable quality I could find about Elle was she refused to live off of her father’s coattails by taking a job working directly for him. But that didn’t stop her from taking a job working at his company where he’s a VP. And I’m sure daddy had a part in getting both her and Tiffany their jobs. She does offer up her reasoning to our male lead Colton Wolfe, but the bottom line is if she really wanted to prove herself and her career success independent of her father’s influence she could have and should have taken a job with a company he wasn’t associated with. In the two years since they started working at Fox they’re both still in lowest entry level positions they started at, acting as glorified receptionists. It’s one thing to be willing to start at the bottom and work your way up, but why after two years with a four-year business degree would you be willing to stay at the bottom? Since they first met as dorm mates their freshman year of college, Elle and Tiffany have been playing the “I dare you” game. Six years later they’re still playing it. Apparently neither has grown up enough to know when a dare crosses the line between being harmless fun and just a stupid risk to their safety or career. Like the stunt she pulls driving to work on a dare. Elle might need therapy because she’s as helpless to refuse a dare as a heroin addict is to refuse their next fix.
Our male lead Colton Wolfe is just the opposite of Elle. He’s totally focused on his career so he can prove daddy back in London wrong that he’s not just the family screw up. Which would be okay but the guy is also a prick to most of the people who work for him. In two years Elle and Tiffany have worked at Fox, he refuses to even acknowledge Elle or Tiffany exist as he passes them each day on his way to the executive elevators. He can’t even be bothered to return a “good morning.” Yet for some reason Elle still wants to shag him just because he's so hot. How superficial and shallow is that? He reems out their boss in full view of other employees because she didn’t provide him with the information he wanted in the format he was looking for. I’m less than ten percent of the way through this book wondering why I should care about either lead character. She’s immature and he’s a dick.
Then it gets worse or better depending upon how you want to view it. At least Elle begins to show some signs of maturity. Because of a dare, Elle gets caught in Colton’s office in a compromising position for which he could easily fire her. Instead he decides to have her work as his assistant because he knows that will drive her father with whom he is competing for the same coveted position crazy. Elle is between a rock and a hard place. Refuse and he’ll fire her. Accept and her father will feel betrayed and embarrassed. So she decides to accept his deal and hope for the best. She even gives her father an impassioned and reasonable speech about why it shouldn’t matter to him. Colton goes so far as to have Elle’s desk placed inside his personal office which besides allowing him to ogle her, will also lead the office gossips to say she got her job by getting on her knees. Elle is no dummy. She realizes she has no future with the company once this assignment is over because people will think she slept her way into the position. Still she doesn’t quit. And at the end of her very first day working for him, when Colton insists she go to dinner with him she readily accepts. Because, what the hell, people are already going to say she screwed her way to a good job so why not be seen in public dining with her boss and put a few more nails in her career coffin. And he is so irresistibly hot after all. And straight laced Colton Wolfe, well he just blew right through any ethical or legal boss/subordinate corporate or legal rules because you know, all of us menfolk are led around by our dicks.
Okay, so after spending all of the words above pretty much savaging this story, for some reason I stuck with it and it got much, much better. Challenged to show what she can do at work, Elle actually shows she is very smart and capable while showing Colton he can work hard and still have some fun while he's at it. Colton for his part is so enanoured with the crazy as a fox force of nature that is Elle Stryker that he actually starts to act like a human being. More than that, he acts like a man who is completely smitten with a woman and realizes she brings something into his life that he's never experienced. Where this story started out pretty cheesy now there's some real depth to the story as Elle and Colton negotiate a complex relationship where Colton is not only her boss but also her beloved father's chief competition for a major promotion. She's introduced to Colton's soap opera of a family. You have to love his grandmother Nan. She's a brilliant character. There's plenty of steamy sex with just a little kink and an incredibly funny and embarrassing scene involving sex in a public place. Equally amusing is that I never realized there were so many American idioms involving animals. All in all if you can get through the first ten of fifteen percent of the book it becomes a pretty entertaining story.
Elle and her BFF Tiffany are I would guess 23 or 24 years old since they are two years out of college. Unfortunately, they act more like they’re two years out of high school. Maybe I’m too old or maybe its’ the father in me because I raised five daughters, but these two young women seemed to have a lot of growing up to do. About the only commendable quality I could find about Elle was she refused to live off of her father’s coattails by taking a job working directly for him. But that didn’t stop her from taking a job working at his company where he’s a VP. And I’m sure daddy had a part in getting both her and Tiffany their jobs. She does offer up her reasoning to our male lead Colton Wolfe, but the bottom line is if she really wanted to prove herself and her career success independent of her father’s influence she could have and should have taken a job with a company he wasn’t associated with. In the two years since they started working at Fox they’re both still in lowest entry level positions they started at, acting as glorified receptionists. It’s one thing to be willing to start at the bottom and work your way up, but why after two years with a four-year business degree would you be willing to stay at the bottom? Since they first met as dorm mates their freshman year of college, Elle and Tiffany have been playing the “I dare you” game. Six years later they’re still playing it. Apparently neither has grown up enough to know when a dare crosses the line between being harmless fun and just a stupid risk to their safety or career. Like the stunt she pulls driving to work on a dare. Elle might need therapy because she’s as helpless to refuse a dare as a heroin addict is to refuse their next fix.
Our male lead Colton Wolfe is just the opposite of Elle. He’s totally focused on his career so he can prove daddy back in London wrong that he’s not just the family screw up. Which would be okay but the guy is also a prick to most of the people who work for him. In two years Elle and Tiffany have worked at Fox, he refuses to even acknowledge Elle or Tiffany exist as he passes them each day on his way to the executive elevators. He can’t even be bothered to return a “good morning.” Yet for some reason Elle still wants to shag him just because he's so hot. How superficial and shallow is that? He reems out their boss in full view of other employees because she didn’t provide him with the information he wanted in the format he was looking for. I’m less than ten percent of the way through this book wondering why I should care about either lead character. She’s immature and he’s a dick.
Then it gets worse or better depending upon how you want to view it. At least Elle begins to show some signs of maturity. Because of a dare, Elle gets caught in Colton’s office in a compromising position for which he could easily fire her. Instead he decides to have her work as his assistant because he knows that will drive her father with whom he is competing for the same coveted position crazy. Elle is between a rock and a hard place. Refuse and he’ll fire her. Accept and her father will feel betrayed and embarrassed. So she decides to accept his deal and hope for the best. She even gives her father an impassioned and reasonable speech about why it shouldn’t matter to him. Colton goes so far as to have Elle’s desk placed inside his personal office which besides allowing him to ogle her, will also lead the office gossips to say she got her job by getting on her knees. Elle is no dummy. She realizes she has no future with the company once this assignment is over because people will think she slept her way into the position. Still she doesn’t quit. And at the end of her very first day working for him, when Colton insists she go to dinner with him she readily accepts. Because, what the hell, people are already going to say she screwed her way to a good job so why not be seen in public dining with her boss and put a few more nails in her career coffin. And he is so irresistibly hot after all. And straight laced Colton Wolfe, well he just blew right through any ethical or legal boss/subordinate corporate or legal rules because you know, all of us menfolk are led around by our dicks.
Okay, so after spending all of the words above pretty much savaging this story, for some reason I stuck with it and it got much, much better. Challenged to show what she can do at work, Elle actually shows she is very smart and capable while showing Colton he can work hard and still have some fun while he's at it. Colton for his part is so enanoured with the crazy as a fox force of nature that is Elle Stryker that he actually starts to act like a human being. More than that, he acts like a man who is completely smitten with a woman and realizes she brings something into his life that he's never experienced. Where this story started out pretty cheesy now there's some real depth to the story as Elle and Colton negotiate a complex relationship where Colton is not only her boss but also her beloved father's chief competition for a major promotion. She's introduced to Colton's soap opera of a family. You have to love his grandmother Nan. She's a brilliant character. There's plenty of steamy sex with just a little kink and an incredibly funny and embarrassing scene involving sex in a public place. Equally amusing is that I never realized there were so many American idioms involving animals. All in all if you can get through the first ten of fifteen percent of the book it becomes a pretty entertaining story.
September 22, 2021
It was a DNF for me!
I like this author, but this book wasn’t it for me. The main female character was very immature and an odd duck. I couldn’t relate nor find any connection with the book. I lost interest quickly and didn’t have any inclination to even read the last chapter (which I often do).
I like this author, but this book wasn’t it for me. The main female character was very immature and an odd duck. I couldn’t relate nor find any connection with the book. I lost interest quickly and didn’t have any inclination to even read the last chapter (which I often do).
February 12, 2020
I just can't finish this book. I got to 68% and I couldn't take it anymore - which is a shame because this book isn't bad exactly. It's well written and funny.
BUT, the continual overuse of outdated British slang drove me so crazy that I couldn't read a sentence without rolling my eyes. There were phrases that went out of fashion in the 1800s - and these old ass phrases were mixed together into other old ass phrases and crammed into one sentence. This does not happen. Ever.
Not too bad an offence for other readers, I'm sure, but for me this just drove me to the point of insanity and I had to stop reading it.
In the future, Ms Landish, please do some research if you're going to make the language variants in English vs American English such a focal point in your book.
BUT, the continual overuse of outdated British slang drove me so crazy that I couldn't read a sentence without rolling my eyes. There were phrases that went out of fashion in the 1800s - and these old ass phrases were mixed together into other old ass phrases and crammed into one sentence. This does not happen. Ever.
Not too bad an offence for other readers, I'm sure, but for me this just drove me to the point of insanity and I had to stop reading it.
In the future, Ms Landish, please do some research if you're going to make the language variants in English vs American English such a focal point in your book.
i-rather-throw-myself-over-a-cliff
February 1, 2020
September 25, 2020
Dnf
Dodgy attempt at English speech and phrasing that were so far off target they made me cringe, daft dares and lots of sexual harassment in the workplace. 🤢 Nasty.
Dodgy attempt at English speech and phrasing that were so far off target they made me cringe, daft dares and lots of sexual harassment in the workplace. 🤢 Nasty.
July 16, 2020
Jesus H. Christ. I think I got whiplash from cringing at this book so hard.
Disclaimer: I did genuinely pick this book up thinking it was a RomCom. (My bad. I don't always read book synopsis's if I see the title recommended enough to me.) It's NOT A ROMCOM. It's a book that's pretending to be a RomCom to give it a fake plot inbetween all the sex scenes.
Things I liked:
- I guess the concept of The Dare game was fun. I wasn't completely against that
- I will say they were both pretty fleshed out characters by the end of the book. So good on you there
- The Friendship between El and Tiffany. I like when they seem to actually have friends
- I liked that Tiffany seemed to actually be fleshed out and have a life too, and wasn't just there to push the plot or be a one dimensional friend
What I hated:
- Yo man..
- The fact that his last name was Wolfe, just so they could set up for the OBVIOUS joke of "The Big Bad Wolfe"
- The way they meet. I thought she wanted to keep her job? I don't believe that any amount of daring or risk taking makes that the obvious okay choice.
- The fact that he wanted her to "make him more fun" cause he's "boring" now
- The fact that the start of that was her getting him to yell YOLO out of the moving car windows. CRINGE.
- Can we talk about timeline for a hot second?
- While i liked the CONCEPT of the dares, in practice not so much. It was obviously a way for them to toe a BDSM D/S relationship without actually coming out and saying it. All of his dares to her were like "Dare you to let me pick out your clothes" and "Dare you to let me order" and "Dare ". It was all very controlling. Which is fine if that's what you're into and have a proper conversation about it, but they didn't. So instead of it being a proper sex thing, it was just controlling behavior instead.
- I thought Colton's family was super duper highbrow british? In no world would a daughter from a high society "richer than god" family say "Wotcher".
- Really all the british slang was a bit hamfisted.
- Yo that Big British Scandel they had was awwfffuuullllll wtf.
- also it's SUPER WEIRD that she spends the whole book talking about how she needs to set her dad up on a date, then the LAST LINE of the book is wondering if her dad would like Coltons Mom when she's just kinda ~guessing~ his mom will want to divorce his dad. it's just so weird.
I dunno, I'm sure there's more. I've run out of steam though. I have nothing against the sex scenes I guess, I didn't hate them. But that wasn't what I was reading the book for and the rest just DIDN'T do it for me.
Disclaimer: I did genuinely pick this book up thinking it was a RomCom. (My bad. I don't always read book synopsis's if I see the title recommended enough to me.) It's NOT A ROMCOM. It's a book that's pretending to be a RomCom to give it a fake plot inbetween all the sex scenes.
Things I liked:
- I guess the concept of The Dare game was fun. I wasn't completely against that
- I will say they were both pretty fleshed out characters by the end of the book. So good on you there
- The Friendship between El and Tiffany. I like when they seem to actually have friends
- I liked that Tiffany seemed to actually be fleshed out and have a life too, and wasn't just there to push the plot or be a one dimensional friend
What I hated:
- Yo man..
- The fact that his last name was Wolfe, just so they could set up for the OBVIOUS joke of "The Big Bad Wolfe"
- The way they meet. I thought she wanted to keep her job? I don't believe that any amount of daring or risk taking makes that the obvious okay choice.
- The fact that he wanted her to "make him more fun" cause he's "boring" now
- The fact that the start of that was her getting him to yell YOLO out of the moving car windows. CRINGE.
- Can we talk about timeline for a hot second?
- While i liked the CONCEPT of the dares, in practice not so much. It was obviously a way for them to toe a BDSM D/S relationship without actually coming out and saying it. All of his dares to her were like "Dare you to let me pick out your clothes" and "Dare you to let me order" and "Dare ". It was all very controlling. Which is fine if that's what you're into and have a proper conversation about it, but they didn't. So instead of it being a proper sex thing, it was just controlling behavior instead.
- I thought Colton's family was super duper highbrow british? In no world would a daughter from a high society "richer than god" family say "Wotcher".
- Really all the british slang was a bit hamfisted.
- Yo that Big British Scandel they had was awwfffuuullllll wtf.
- also it's SUPER WEIRD that she spends the whole book talking about how she needs to set her dad up on a date, then the LAST LINE of the book is wondering if her dad would like Coltons Mom when she's just kinda ~guessing~ his mom will want to divorce his dad. it's just so weird.
I dunno, I'm sure there's more. I've run out of steam though. I have nothing against the sex scenes I guess, I didn't hate them. But that wasn't what I was reading the book for and the rest just DIDN'T do it for me.
February 5, 2020
Omg Lauren you started this year with kaboom!!! These girls are hilarious! I totally want to be there friend. So Elle has a crush on her hottie boss Colton who doesn’t realize what is right under his nose. But unfortunately for Elle her dad who also works for this company wants her to pay attention and keep an eye on Colton he wants her to keep him up to date, will she her heart is conflicted and Colton who now sees her also wants to use her.. what to do what to do!!!! Grab a copy and Enjoy!! My friends you totally wil
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July 23, 2020
I tried. Dnf because the heroine was really immature. I couldn’t get on the dare thing
April 3, 2020
3 ⭐'s
Colton and Elle work at the same company and while she pines over him, he's never noticed her, that is until the day he catches her in his office after she's made butt pictures on his copier as a dare.
Elle's mother took off when she was younger and her father over compensated by taking care of everything for Elle. Her only way for some cheap thrills is by taking on the harmless dares her best friend, Tiffany, throws her way.
Colton is intrigued and since he's in the middle of a campaign for a higher position (and against Elle's father, I might add), he decides to make Elle his assistant.
He loves all the light and laughter she brings into his lonely life and she loves how much he pushes her and is by her side at every turn. They make a good team but very quickly things evolve sexually.
Events get even crazier when they go to London for his project and she ends up meeting his family.
I choose this book for its humor and wasn't disappointed. This is my first book by the author and I wasn't disappointed. What was disappointing was the sex scenes. I'm not a big fan of cream and honey and things just felt a bit awkward and uncomfortable.
What I did love was all the dares and the funny American animal saying...those were a hoot! ;)
Colton and Elle work at the same company and while she pines over him, he's never noticed her, that is until the day he catches her in his office after she's made butt pictures on his copier as a dare.
Elle's mother took off when she was younger and her father over compensated by taking care of everything for Elle. Her only way for some cheap thrills is by taking on the harmless dares her best friend, Tiffany, throws her way.
Colton is intrigued and since he's in the middle of a campaign for a higher position (and against Elle's father, I might add), he decides to make Elle his assistant.
He loves all the light and laughter she brings into his lonely life and she loves how much he pushes her and is by her side at every turn. They make a good team but very quickly things evolve sexually.
Events get even crazier when they go to London for his project and she ends up meeting his family.
I choose this book for its humor and wasn't disappointed. This is my first book by the author and I wasn't disappointed. What was disappointing was the sex scenes. I'm not a big fan of cream and honey and things just felt a bit awkward and uncomfortable.
What I did love was all the dares and the funny American animal saying...those were a hoot! ;)
January 30, 2023
Plain and simple, a 2.5 star rating. It was just too cringy for me for numerous chunks of this book, along with some highly unrealistic circumstances that just held me back from really connecting with this story. Just wasn’t my cup of tea..
February 1, 2020
This book is a riot and then some! One breathtaking dare from her bestie sets Elle on a collision course with the take-charge Colton Wolfe and love. This boss man is full steely alpha. The banter is off the scale. The chemistry, pure lightning.
Lauren Landish will make you laugh yourself to pieces and glue you back together again with the swooniest feels. They're all here! Don't miss this five-star rom-com while it's Free in Kindle Unlimited.
Lauren Landish will make you laugh yourself to pieces and glue you back together again with the swooniest feels. They're all here! Don't miss this five-star rom-com while it's Free in Kindle Unlimited.
August 19, 2021
I thought that this book was good
March 1, 2020
The Dare is funny, saucy and unpredictable. Landish continues to surprise me. Elle and Colton flirt with emotions from start to finish, but it's the message their journey conveys that will stick in your heart long after you walk away. Landish dishes up a little food for the soul with a ton of steam and that ever present heart.
Audio Review: The Dare by: Lauren Landish (Author), Shane East (Narrator), Carly Robins (Narrator)
Landish has a wicked sense of humor. Audio gives her the chance to finally put it on full display. Robins and East are a temptation that is not to be missed. They give voice to what was already an addictive temptation. Elle and Colton are the best kind of naughty, because they not only stir up senses, but appeal to the heart. Whether laughing out loud or holding your breath, Landish and company give you the feels in the most tempting and delightful way.
Audio Review: The Dare by: Lauren Landish (Author), Shane East (Narrator), Carly Robins (Narrator)
Landish has a wicked sense of humor. Audio gives her the chance to finally put it on full display. Robins and East are a temptation that is not to be missed. They give voice to what was already an addictive temptation. Elle and Colton are the best kind of naughty, because they not only stir up senses, but appeal to the heart. Whether laughing out loud or holding your breath, Landish and company give you the feels in the most tempting and delightful way.
April 10, 2020
I'm -
I liked this at times, it wasn't a bad read but it had so many cringe moments...
At first I thought that the premise was quite interesting. But the dares between Elle and Tiffany turned mundane and silly (at the same time!) rather fast. I also thought that the whole explanation of why Elle was so into dares was beaten into my head repeatedly, instead of being shown. After some time, and yet another elaborate description of the rush Elle was experiencing, my only reaction was REALLY?
You really feel SUCH a rush after saying "orgasmic" to the waiter on your friend's dare?
Apart from that, I had two major bones to pick with this story. For one, the romance between Elle and Colton felt incredibly instalovey to me. I don't mind a bit of instalove, but here they went from Colton barely noticing Elle to instalust to in love and Elle moving across the ocean to be with the guy in five hot seconds.
And secondly, the cringe moments! Maybe it was supposed to be a comic relief, or not-so-subtle foreshadowing of a future paring, but Tiffany's crush on Elle's dad? Bleh. In itself, I think I'd find it interesting, to be honest, and I wouldn't mind reading their story. But the fact that Tiffany kept calling him D*ddy in all conversations with Elle...
So, all in all, it wasn't the best read but it had enjoyable moments. Plus, most of my negative experience with this book stems from my own personal dislikes and pet peeves (the d*ddy thing makes me break out in hives basically sorry not sorry), so it doesn't necessarily make it a bad story, it just wasn't a good fit for me.
I liked this at times, it wasn't a bad read but it had so many cringe moments...
At first I thought that the premise was quite interesting. But the dares between Elle and Tiffany turned mundane and silly (at the same time!) rather fast. I also thought that the whole explanation of why Elle was so into dares was beaten into my head repeatedly, instead of being shown. After some time, and yet another elaborate description of the rush Elle was experiencing, my only reaction was REALLY?
You really feel SUCH a rush after saying "orgasmic" to the waiter on your friend's dare?
Apart from that, I had two major bones to pick with this story. For one, the romance between Elle and Colton felt incredibly instalovey to me. I don't mind a bit of instalove, but here they went from Colton barely noticing Elle to instalust to in love and Elle moving across the ocean to be with the guy in five hot seconds.
And secondly, the cringe moments! Maybe it was supposed to be a comic relief, or not-so-subtle foreshadowing of a future paring, but Tiffany's crush on Elle's dad? Bleh. In itself, I think I'd find it interesting, to be honest, and I wouldn't mind reading their story. But the fact that Tiffany kept calling him D*ddy in all conversations with Elle...
So, all in all, it wasn't the best read but it had enjoyable moments. Plus, most of my negative experience with this book stems from my own personal dislikes and pet peeves (the d*ddy thing makes me break out in hives basically sorry not sorry), so it doesn't necessarily make it a bad story, it just wasn't a good fit for me.
June 19, 2020
Seriously Unpopular Opinion Alert: I hated this book.
I know, I know. Lauren Landish is usually one of my go-to authors and everyone seems to like this book. I just....ugh. Okay, firstly, I thought the best girl friends daring each other to do crazy things and it becomes a lifelong game was just incredibly immature. (Related: have I become a cranky old lady?) Besides the fact that this behavior is more suited to 19 year olds, that these adult females are doing it at their place of business and dropping trou in the boss's office just makes me feel that the lead female is silly and stupid. It made it hard for me to take her seriously in any way.
Secondly, the lead male came off as crazy inappropriate at work as well. Asking a female co-worker to do filthy (and I mean that in a good way) sex acts to you in your office is just pervy and skirts the line of #MeToo, whether she seems/is willing or not.
Thirdly, I found the balance of the sex to the story to be out of whack (for MY personal tastes). Other readers will love it (and if so...GET IT GIRL), but it felt like 90% dirty sex and 10% romance and emotional connection.
I know, I know. Lauren Landish is usually one of my go-to authors and everyone seems to like this book. I just....ugh. Okay, firstly, I thought the best girl friends daring each other to do crazy things and it becomes a lifelong game was just incredibly immature. (Related: have I become a cranky old lady?) Besides the fact that this behavior is more suited to 19 year olds, that these adult females are doing it at their place of business and dropping trou in the boss's office just makes me feel that the lead female is silly and stupid. It made it hard for me to take her seriously in any way.
Secondly, the lead male came off as crazy inappropriate at work as well. Asking a female co-worker to do filthy (and I mean that in a good way) sex acts to you in your office is just pervy and skirts the line of #MeToo, whether she seems/is willing or not.
Thirdly, I found the balance of the sex to the story to be out of whack (for MY personal tastes). Other readers will love it (and if so...GET IT GIRL), but it felt like 90% dirty sex and 10% romance and emotional connection.
February 3, 2020
The Dare by Lauren Landish tells the story of Elle Stryker and Colton Wolfe.
This story tells how Elle came into Colton's orbit. Without giving much away, you are getting a great office romance. The chemistry between Elle and Colton is hot!! Their banter is flirty, intense and tempting. Then you add the secondary cast of characters- Elle's BFF - Tiffany and Elle's father Daniel.
Elle is supremely attracted to Colton but papa dear is up against him work wise and Elle doesn't know what to do. The pace moves pretty quick story wise and your never left to wish the pace would pick up. The story moves quickly and the characters are outstanding; the feelings that come forth , the angst , the feels, romance, drama, steam is utter amazing. I can't wait to read stories for the secondary characters here. Elle and Colton's love story is full and lively with heart and heat.
My Rating: 4.5 stars *******
This story tells how Elle came into Colton's orbit. Without giving much away, you are getting a great office romance. The chemistry between Elle and Colton is hot!! Their banter is flirty, intense and tempting. Then you add the secondary cast of characters- Elle's BFF - Tiffany and Elle's father Daniel.
Elle is supremely attracted to Colton but papa dear is up against him work wise and Elle doesn't know what to do. The pace moves pretty quick story wise and your never left to wish the pace would pick up. The story moves quickly and the characters are outstanding; the feelings that come forth , the angst , the feels, romance, drama, steam is utter amazing. I can't wait to read stories for the secondary characters here. Elle and Colton's love story is full and lively with heart and heat.
My Rating: 4.5 stars *******
February 1, 2020
The Dare by Lauren Landish is the story of Elle Stryker and Colton Wolfe.
Colton is from London working to show his father that he can succeed on his own. So Colton has been all business working at Fox Industries. Elle and her best friend since college bot work as assistants at Fox Industries, live together and both have a love doing crazy stunts / dares. In addition to all that Elle's father works at Fox Industries too. But similar to Colton she wants to do things on her own. Elle has been noticing Colton from afar but he hasn't even seem to see her. But when one of their dares goes wrong and they get caught... Colton has her on his radar now.
This book is a must read. It has the funny scene, hot scene, the hot alpha male and the wonderful heroine... couldn't put it down!
Colton is from London working to show his father that he can succeed on his own. So Colton has been all business working at Fox Industries. Elle and her best friend since college bot work as assistants at Fox Industries, live together and both have a love doing crazy stunts / dares. In addition to all that Elle's father works at Fox Industries too. But similar to Colton she wants to do things on her own. Elle has been noticing Colton from afar but he hasn't even seem to see her. But when one of their dares goes wrong and they get caught... Colton has her on his radar now.
This book is a must read. It has the funny scene, hot scene, the hot alpha male and the wonderful heroine... couldn't put it down!
July 26, 2020
1.75 CRINGE worthy STARS
What is this book ?
I'm neither American nor British, but do seriously people talk like it's describe in this book?
ughh I had a serious case of cringing and eye-rolling throughout the whole story... HELP!
What is this book ?
I'm neither American nor British, but do seriously people talk like it's describe in this book?
ughh I had a serious case of cringing and eye-rolling throughout the whole story... HELP!
March 28, 2020
Meh... I actually don't know what to say about this one. At first, Elle was really funny, she had that reckless side but was really responsible with her life, she just liked her fun and who doesn't, right? I love when a book displays how important and normal it is for a woman to have her fun and not be judged about it.
Anyway, I really enjoyed reading this at the beginning but then it just started getting boring and I really don't know why exactly it got boring... I just lost interest in the story. The 2 stars go for the beginning of the book but the rest was just meh.
Anyway, I really enjoyed reading this at the beginning but then it just started getting boring and I really don't know why exactly it got boring... I just lost interest in the story. The 2 stars go for the beginning of the book but the rest was just meh.
January 31, 2020
Cheeky and Sassy Romance...
Delightful and amusing best describes this story about Elle Stryker and Colton Wolfe. Elle and BFF Tiffany are dare junkies. They both work for Fox Industries as does Elle's father Daniel. Colton Wolfe, VP also works for the company and try as she might, Elle cannot get the man's attention. He is gorgeous, sexy and has an English accent to boot. I personally would not have a problem giving my basket of goodies over to the Big Bad Wolfe.
After a very risky dare by her BFF, Elle succeeds in getting Colton's attention big time. That's when all the games begin. Colton who does not take relationship risks, finds himself besotted with Elle. He loves her free spirit and feistiness. At first he just thought she was a nutter, but that quickly changed.
Their story is sizzling hot, but also comical. A killer combination in a romance novel.
Delightful and amusing best describes this story about Elle Stryker and Colton Wolfe. Elle and BFF Tiffany are dare junkies. They both work for Fox Industries as does Elle's father Daniel. Colton Wolfe, VP also works for the company and try as she might, Elle cannot get the man's attention. He is gorgeous, sexy and has an English accent to boot. I personally would not have a problem giving my basket of goodies over to the Big Bad Wolfe.
After a very risky dare by her BFF, Elle succeeds in getting Colton's attention big time. That's when all the games begin. Colton who does not take relationship risks, finds himself besotted with Elle. He loves her free spirit and feistiness. At first he just thought she was a nutter, but that quickly changed.
Their story is sizzling hot, but also comical. A killer combination in a romance novel.
February 18, 2020
This was my first book by Lauren Landish, and I did enjoy her writing. This was a quick rom- com style read with LOTS of steam.
The chapters switch back and forth between Elle and Colton, and while I enjoyed reading out of Colton's perspective, I did not care for Elle's view. Elle, and her best friend Tiffany for that matter, are so juvenile that it's hard to believe they are supposed to be out of college. Everything they do is based on dares. I get that this is a given, being that it's the title of the book, but it gets old throughout the story. Some dares are simply so embarrassing and childish that I found it hard to believe an adult would go through with them. Elle's character made it hard for me to really feel the connection with Colton.
There is a little bit of drama with Colton's family and Elle's father, but unfortunately not enough of a plot twist to keep the ending interesting.
The chapters switch back and forth between Elle and Colton, and while I enjoyed reading out of Colton's perspective, I did not care for Elle's view. Elle, and her best friend Tiffany for that matter, are so juvenile that it's hard to believe they are supposed to be out of college. Everything they do is based on dares. I get that this is a given, being that it's the title of the book, but it gets old throughout the story. Some dares are simply so embarrassing and childish that I found it hard to believe an adult would go through with them. Elle's character made it hard for me to really feel the connection with Colton.
There is a little bit of drama with Colton's family and Elle's father, but unfortunately not enough of a plot twist to keep the ending interesting.
November 15, 2024
Life's too short to force myself to read books about sexual harassment in the workplace.
To be honest, I didn’t care too much about the dares and the immaturity of it all, or about the main character’s Mary Sue-ness, or about the ridiculous British slang and idioms Colton Wolfe uses as if to say, "Hey, I’m British, please do not forget that I’m British because this accent and this face are all I have going for me" (who says "bollocks" in a business meeting????? Like????)
But what was just a big no-no for me, as someone who works a corporate job, was the boss hitting shamelessly on his assistant. It made me cringe so hard.
If Colton Wolfe wasn’t handsome, British, and “fuckable,” as the author tries to make us believe, Elle would be going straight to HR to report sexual harassment in less time than it takes you to snap your fingers. And if Elle Stryker weren’t hot and blonde, Colton would’ve reported her crazy ass in less than five seconds after finding her photocopying her ass in his office.
To be honest, I didn’t care too much about the dares and the immaturity of it all, or about the main character’s Mary Sue-ness, or about the ridiculous British slang and idioms Colton Wolfe uses as if to say, "Hey, I’m British, please do not forget that I’m British because this accent and this face are all I have going for me" (who says "bollocks" in a business meeting????? Like????)
But what was just a big no-no for me, as someone who works a corporate job, was the boss hitting shamelessly on his assistant. It made me cringe so hard.
If Colton Wolfe wasn’t handsome, British, and “fuckable,” as the author tries to make us believe, Elle would be going straight to HR to report sexual harassment in less time than it takes you to snap your fingers. And if Elle Stryker weren’t hot and blonde, Colton would’ve reported her crazy ass in less than five seconds after finding her photocopying her ass in his office.
May 4, 2020
Leading female's personality was better suited to an unruly middle schooler than a woman seeking success in a corporate work place.
Male love interest's entire personality revolved around how the female love interest was feeling. He didn't have a thought of his own.
Sex scenes sure weren't bad, though.
February 2, 2020
Take one hot, bossy alpha brit and one wild, independent daredevil, add in witty banter, humorous moments, lust, crazy dares, loyalty, challenges and hot scenes, and you get one well written, fun, flirty and sexy must read.
I volunteered to review an advance reader copy of this book.
I volunteered to review an advance reader copy of this book.
February 20, 2020
Couldn’t finish. I tried but if I have no interest in picking up a book for days, it’s just not good.
November 14, 2020
2.5 stars
I think this book was too cheesy and the characters too immature for my taste. Easy read and passed the time.
I think this book was too cheesy and the characters too immature for my taste. Easy read and passed the time.
April 12, 2021
It was free on Amazon, and there’s a reason. Not a great book at all. Too steamy for my taste as well.
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