OMG, this woman is extremely horny! Not a page passes without her making some thirsty remark about Dex. The guy had only to reveal some skin for her to literally forget anything but how horny she was for him. At one point it was just a sliver of his abdomen because his shirt had ridden up and she stopped everything to drool. Hell, sometimes putting on some article of clothing was enough for her to thirst after him, and some scenes were there, and some things done a certain way, only for him to remove clothing. All while thinking he might have killed her brother, whose death she’s oh, so guilty about. At some point she's absolutely sure he was involved. That went out the window whenever she was around Dex. And you’d think the spice would be good, with so much horniness, but not really. It was very vague and had me frowning, trying to understand what was going on. Their relationship was entirely based on lust, so when the “I-Love-U”came, it didn’t feel real. This is one of those couples you know aren’t going to stay together very long. They didn’t know how to communicate properly, to begin with.
The pacing is off, with long stretches when nothing happens, sudden time jumps, and random flashbacks. At least those were in italics, because they start suddenly without signposting, and are written in third person present, like the rest of the book. .
The worldbuilding is minimal, and elements would be mentioned and then not explained until much later, because either Cassie didn’t ask the right questions (mostly, this was the case), or Dex wouldn’t answer them in the rare occasions she did. And when the explanations came, they were very unsatisfying and confusing, and again Cassie doesn’t ask any questions. And I'm supposed to believe she’s a lawyer? The author can’t be bothered to explain what “the Guardianship” is, or why Dex is the “Master Manipulator” until more than halfway through even though both of those are mentioned very early on, but takes the time to mention she’s a black belt in I don’t know what discipline (it just says “martial arts” as if all of the different disciplines are the same thing) and a crack shot. Except we never see any of those things. Oh, but how it’s Cassie’s fault that her brother is dead because she didn’t go to a bar with him in order to study is mentioned, again and again and again. I think that was her only character flaw. That she felt guilty for her brother and mother’s deaths.
And in the end, she just forgets her guilt, like it never existed. It wasn’t even because Dex talked to her about it, it was just a switch flipping and now she’s not guilty anymore. Not that she showed she was, just a couple panic attacks here and there (that didn’t even seem to be related to her brother but some other trauma that doesn’t get explained), which Dex is able to get her out of, of course, and constant mentions of how she feels guilt, but not much of her actions reflected that, not really.
There were many continuity mistakes, small things like they would be standing but some paragraphs later they did something you’d need to be sitting for, and the next paragraph would have a mention of them standing. I had to backtrack a few times because I was confused about where she was or what people were doing. Some of those times might have been because I was distracted while reading, but that only says this wasn’t interesting enough to grab my attention.