An Emotionally Charged & Surprisingly Introspective Love Story…
After the duds that were books one and two, I have been thanking the universe for sending me “Filthy Little Tease”, by Alex Grayson first, as if I had read the books within her, Itty Bitty Delights series in their intended order I never would have made it to this one. And oh, my goodness what a shame it would have been to never get immersed in the passion and angst that is this book!
Here with her provoking story of Aleah and Spencer, Aleah being the high school senior introduced briefly in the last book as the stepsister to Dr. Erikson and friend to Luna. A friend that through Luna’s plight, we discovered harbors secrets of her own, the main one being her deep attraction to Spencer. It is an attraction she has harbored since she was sixteen after her mother cheats and runs away with her lover leaving her and her stepfather behind for good. An event she views as an opportunity to perhaps have the man of her dreams for her own, a dream that then sees her launch a dedicated plot to win him no matter the cost. And the object himself, Spencer, a police detective more than thirty years Aleah’s senior. A man dealing with not only the pressures of his job, a divorce, and caring for the stepdaughter his wife left behind along with his adult son Erik, both whom he cares for more than anything else in the world. He is also dealing with Aleah’s newly and highly provocative behavior, something he initially views as a temperamental stage of a teenager he just needs to endure.
However, when on the eve of her eighteenth birthday Aleah further ramps up her assault on his senses with ever increasing levels of dirty words, sexual behavior, and inappropriately skimpy outfits, something in him breaks. A break that causes a shift that not only pushes Spencer’s libido into overdrive, but also his mindset causing him to begin to view his stepdaughter not as a child but the blossoming young woman she is. It is a change that causes his already fragile resolve to crumble thrusting them both on a path that will alter both their lives irrevocably.
What follows is a passionately charged and surprisingly introspective tale of taboo love. One which will find you rooting for a couple that both your common sense and internal moral code of societal norm fueled right and wrong will tell you, you absolutely shouldn’t. And while I will admit to finding this particular story a bit silly in overall context, and containing plot points that, in places push the believability boundaries really, really hard, the emotional intensity of it overall fully punches you in all the feels and will capture your attention from start to finish.
This one is a brilliant improvement to the series overall. And although you may get stuck in the semantics of the ages, the change in the initial relationship, don't! You will be emotionally rewarded I promise you.