Looking to hook up with a kinky fellow celebrity near you when nobody--literally nobody--can know you're the opposite of vanilla? There’s an app for that.
Quietly warn a fellow actress not to be alone with a certain producer and… BOOM. I’m dumped from Hollywood’s A-list to everyone’s blacklist in the blink of an upload. So when I accidentally swipe right on my ex, who is still very much a hot commodity in this town, I'm not about to tank his career along with mine. But Eli has questions, and I just might like the way he plans to wring the answers out of me.
USA Today bestselling author, Sadie Haller, lives in the little blue house by the sea with one husband, two dogs, three cats, and six hens (they actually live in a littler red house out the back). She writes kinky happy ever afters for musicians, politicians, celebrities, and the occasional member of the royal family.
Book two in the Fetwrk series is just as good as book one! We get Calliope’s story, who was teased in Power Exchange. After just giving a warning to a fellow actress, sex tapes are released and widely publicized. Of course the jerk would make sure her face is seen and not his! Now Calli is blacklisted in Hollywood, she’s lost her agent, lost her prospects, lost everything. Good thing she still has her friendship and pretend relationship with Eli, and her account on Fetwrk.
Eli is trying to do all he can to help Calli through this ordeal, but as friends. He wouldn’t mind more with her, but his tastes in kink are pretty specific. Good thing there’s an app for that!
When Calli and Eli match on the app, all bets are off. He takes control and gives them both what they need. However, Eli wants to take care of Calli, and she is not interested in that. Can they find their way back to their perfect match?
Sadie Haller is an excellent author who carries you along on the journey. She doesn’t need to resort to “shock and awe”, doesn’t force a plot down the reader’s throat, and always manages to give the characters depth and humanity. You can really relate to how Calli and Eli are feeling throughout the story, and are rooting for them all the way.
MMC and FMC are fake dating bc they are in a movie together. She gets retaliation blacklisted by a big producer. They have a public fight. Later that night, they anonymously match on a DL app for A listers wanting kinky hookups. After a few meetings, she gets angry, safe words, and leaves. He then "breaks up" with her via public statement.
Months later, she tries the app again and is almost abducted in a parking lot. She fights back. Then is arrested for assault. He helps her out of jail.
Their "fixer" friend finds security footage of him assaulting her before she fought him off. She goes public. They are back together. She's back on the A list.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Somehow this book got downloaded to my phone so with a lack of internet I decided to give it a read. Callie is being blacklisted because of a jerk of a man and her fake boyfriend is trying to hell her along till it’s just much. Paired by a kinky app they end up diving into a dom/sub relationship. The book has good flow and while they don’t physically discuss the limits they are located on the profiles and be us very adamant to use her safe word so I feel like that didn’t get into the grey for me. I enjoyed the read. I really enjoyed Auntie. Every body needs a family member like that!
Okay, so disclaimer: I got this free and haven't read the first in the series. I think reading in order would have helped with some of the context. That said, I got the main plot. It all just felt rather superficial and had very little depth of any character, which was disappointing because the characters both had potentially interesting backgrounds. Even the scenes felt rushed and repetitive.
Dry series of events. Would have liked more....everything. Felt like we were rushing through at breakneck speed, pausing to look at this scene on a slightly slower fast-forward, rushing through to the next. Also, not an ounce of negotiation. Best part was when he made his grand gesture and she immediately exited the scene, that was correct of her to do, and felt like the most realistic and human moment in the book.
Calli ends up swiping right on Eli, her fake boyfriend (for Hollywood publicity) after a huge scandal of inappropriate photos of her from the past surface in the media.
<3 Auntie Gert, she’s a hoot! I also really liked Mel, too.
This story had a lot of excitement & drama, but I would have liked to hear more about what happened to after Calli decided to fight back.
I love this author and the book was just okay. Feel that the relationship between the two jumped from dom and sub to lovers without addressing some issues. I like things tied up and didn’t feel they were. Loved the auntie and her take no prisoners approach. Disappointed in this book but won’t stop me reading future books from this author.
Quick and dirty, but also had a good plot and it definitely built on the previous book in the series. I was a little confused about the last book but now I'm seeing how this fits together and I like it!
I hate it when a good person is hurt by a crazy who thinks he’s entitled, but it it makes for a heartwarming compassionate tale. Caliope has been wronged luckily she has found a compatriot in Eli. Then they find more. So much more than BDSM, great read.
This read, by this new author to me, was excellent
I had never read this author before. But everything about the book was very good. The plot, the characters, the action, and even the editing were all very very good. Now I will go on to read more books for this author has written.
Sadie Haller has written another book that is hard to put down with “Blacklist Hookup”. Eli and Calli are perfectly matched in this second book of her Fetwrk series. It was exciting, intriguing, interesting, and plenty of good times had by all.
I liked this book a lot, it had several good BDSM scenes and I liked the story line involving Hollywood. I am planning on looking for more by this writer ✍️
Feb 27/24 review - Lots of kinky sex between an actress who has been unfairly blacklisted by a sleazy producer and her fake boyfriend, an A-list actor. Of course it turns out that they are both kinky, in very compatible ways.
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~~ Mar 1/20 review - Also good, the kinky a-list celebs make a good couple.