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3.87 AVERAGE
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
I loved the angst and the tension between Ashley and Cameron. T. L. Swan never disappoints me. I love her writing.
emotional
lighthearted
fast-paced
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Good book. MC is …the worst kind of red flag.
This book took me on an emotional roller coaster. It was hot, it was good. It was well-written as far as flow and plot.
However… I’m gunna put spoilers down below, so brace yourself and don’t look if you don’t want to know! And boy is this LONG. And RANTY. I feel emotionally raw, unsatisfied, and a very high level of Oh Honey.. NO. By the last page. A BAD book hangover.
TLDR; minimum no spoiler: MC is mean and selfish. There should be groveling IMO and there was not. Bulldozer/flirt/seduces the FMC to forgive him. Even she admits she doesn’t ever forgive him just… leaves it alone. And the relationship/misunderstanding/TRUST issues continue but they just kind of ignore the elephants and live… Happily Ever In Toxic Ignorance? RIP
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SPOILER:
The FMC works at a VERY high end club that has sex work in the building, but it is NOT a brothel. When the MC finds out she works there he flips and orders her to stop OR ELSE. They also work together at the hospital by day. And.. after their Vegas interlude, she was pregnant with his child.
Now this is where I just wanna crack something in half.
HIS childish actions at the casino (counting cards when he knows and acknowledges he could get banned and acts a fool) get him thrown out and he loses his phone. And her number. So if he hadn’t been an enormous idiot he wouldn’t have lost track of her. And she had no way to contact him.
So while I also don’t condone that she dates him and hides his child from him?
When he does find out, he loses his ever loving MIND. She goes back to working at the club at night to take care of their son. He threatens her again with how their son will feel if he finds out later in life his mom was a prostitute. EVEN IF she doesn’t work in that area.
She goes out for drinks with a few of the girls from the club after he’s been an absolute A-HOLE to her about having his kid and hiding it from her. She needs a break.
Someone at the bar roofies her and she’s brought to the hospital. They do drug tests. She tells him the truth- she was drugged. He doesn’t believe her.
Files court orders and security with his massive bags of money and gets the court to remove her son from her until she “gets her head on straight”. She warns him she’ll never forgive him for that. So does everyone around him.
Changes his mind the day he comes to take their son and he hears her SOUL SHATTERING SCREAM CRIES and sees her in the FETAL POSITION on her couch. They settle into some other sort of arrangement.
They BS around each other for months while he grows close with his son and she is as friendly as she needs to be and shuts down any attempts by him to talk about anything but their child. GOOD FOR HER.
Of course after being confronted with the possibility of her dating or marrying someone else he’s like NO I LIKE HER. I want to eff other women even if I don’t care for them.. but NO WAY she can do the same.
He ends up flirting his way back in her life with THE CRAPPIEST excuses about “putting his son first” and keeping her from being a prostitute and using drugs and just.. wow. WOW.
They screw around and fall “back” in love and she thinks about how she doesn’t really forgive him but just decides to move on. Okay.
They fly to her ex’s mother’s home because she’s dying and wants to see her and the grandson she had emotionally adopted. FMC goes to cook supper for her one last time and when she takes headache meds she passes out on the lady’s couch all night.
She wakes up in a panic, sees her phone was on silent and she missed a million calls and the MC won’t answer his phone. She rushes back to the hotel and there’s a note saying they left her and she should just stay behind.
He assumes she slept with her ex and just ditched him and their son.
IMO a real man would have gone TO THE PLACE to see if she was okay not just immediately abandon her as a slut and steal their child away.
BUT WAIT he has a flash of concience last second and goes back for her. Doesn’t really believe she didn’t cheat on him but just moves on.
They live happily ever after.
There was no groveling. No therapy. No talking about important stuff. This hot rich dude just mowed her over. Didn’t give a f she was drugged or was doing what she had to do to take care of his child- that he would have known about if he wasn’t a POS and lost his phone because he was acting like a DOOSH.
There is no way even in fantasy land this is a healthy relationship or that marriage will ever work out.
I was sobbing WITH the FMC when the man she loved called her a drug addicted whor3 and TOOK HER SON AWAY.
My crying and rage carried me through the end of the book where the most sour and angry taste is left in my mouth. That child is going to grow up in the worst home. But at least he’ll be rich. Cameron Stanton is one of the absolute worst MCs I’ve ever read.
This book took me on an emotional roller coaster. It was hot, it was good. It was well-written as far as flow and plot.
However… I’m gunna put spoilers down below, so brace yourself and don’t look if you don’t want to know! And boy is this LONG. And RANTY. I feel emotionally raw, unsatisfied, and a very high level of Oh Honey.. NO. By the last page. A BAD book hangover.
TLDR; minimum no spoiler: MC is mean and selfish. There should be groveling IMO and there was not. Bulldozer/flirt/seduces the FMC to forgive him. Even she admits she doesn’t ever forgive him just… leaves it alone. And the relationship/misunderstanding/TRUST issues continue but they just kind of ignore the elephants and live… Happily Ever In Toxic Ignorance? RIP
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SPOILER:
The FMC works at a VERY high end club that has sex work in the building, but it is NOT a brothel. When the MC finds out she works there he flips and orders her to stop OR ELSE. They also work together at the hospital by day. And.. after their Vegas interlude, she was pregnant with his child.
Now this is where I just wanna crack something in half.
HIS childish actions at the casino (counting cards when he knows and acknowledges he could get banned and acts a fool) get him thrown out and he loses his phone. And her number. So if he hadn’t been an enormous idiot he wouldn’t have lost track of her. And she had no way to contact him.
So while I also don’t condone that she dates him and hides his child from him?
When he does find out, he loses his ever loving MIND. She goes back to working at the club at night to take care of their son. He threatens her again with how their son will feel if he finds out later in life his mom was a prostitute. EVEN IF she doesn’t work in that area.
She goes out for drinks with a few of the girls from the club after he’s been an absolute A-HOLE to her about having his kid and hiding it from her. She needs a break.
Someone at the bar roofies her and she’s brought to the hospital. They do drug tests. She tells him the truth- she was drugged. He doesn’t believe her.
Files court orders and security with his massive bags of money and gets the court to remove her son from her until she “gets her head on straight”. She warns him she’ll never forgive him for that. So does everyone around him.
Changes his mind the day he comes to take their son and he hears her SOUL SHATTERING SCREAM CRIES and sees her in the FETAL POSITION on her couch. They settle into some other sort of arrangement.
They BS around each other for months while he grows close with his son and she is as friendly as she needs to be and shuts down any attempts by him to talk about anything but their child. GOOD FOR HER.
Of course after being confronted with the possibility of her dating or marrying someone else he’s like NO I LIKE HER. I want to eff other women even if I don’t care for them.. but NO WAY she can do the same.
He ends up flirting his way back in her life with THE CRAPPIEST excuses about “putting his son first” and keeping her from being a prostitute and using drugs and just.. wow. WOW.
They screw around and fall “back” in love and she thinks about how she doesn’t really forgive him but just decides to move on. Okay.
They fly to her ex’s mother’s home because she’s dying and wants to see her and the grandson she had emotionally adopted. FMC goes to cook supper for her one last time and when she takes headache meds she passes out on the lady’s couch all night.
She wakes up in a panic, sees her phone was on silent and she missed a million calls and the MC won’t answer his phone. She rushes back to the hotel and there’s a note saying they left her and she should just stay behind.
He assumes she slept with her ex and just ditched him and their son.
IMO a real man would have gone TO THE PLACE to see if she was okay not just immediately abandon her as a slut and steal their child away.
BUT WAIT he has a flash of concience last second and goes back for her. Doesn’t really believe she didn’t cheat on him but just moves on.
They live happily ever after.
There was no groveling. No therapy. No talking about important stuff. This hot rich dude just mowed her over. Didn’t give a f she was drugged or was doing what she had to do to take care of his child- that he would have known about if he wasn’t a POS and lost his phone because he was acting like a DOOSH.
There is no way even in fantasy land this is a healthy relationship or that marriage will ever work out.
I was sobbing WITH the FMC when the man she loved called her a drug addicted whor3 and TOOK HER SON AWAY.
My crying and rage carried me through the end of the book where the most sour and angry taste is left in my mouth. That child is going to grow up in the worst home. But at least he’ll be rich. Cameron Stanton is one of the absolute worst MCs I’ve ever read.
challenging
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This one was alright, I didn't hate it. I just didn't love it like I've loved so many others fro T.L. Swan. The characters, (mainly Dr. Stanton himself) sort of got on my nerves, but Ash had her moments of that too. Just not quite as many as him.
Of course, they meet at a bar, when she turns to him and pretends that he's her husband to show off to an ex and his annoying new GF. Then things get hot and steamy. Then he loses her number since he lost his phone...
5 years later, while moving for an internship, Ash is interning for none other than the Dr. himself. And from there, the story moves along. I didn't like the whole child thing, and not because I don't like kids myself (which I don't), but I felt that it was a little too cliche and he was really kind of an ass about it.
That being said, the steam is a solid 4.5 stars, but the story itself fell a bit flat. I'd say 3.5 so I rounded up to an even 4.
Of course, they meet at a bar, when she turns to him and pretends that he's her husband to show off to an ex and his annoying new GF. Then things get hot and steamy. Then he loses her number since he lost his phone...
5 years later, while moving for an internship, Ash is interning for none other than the Dr. himself. And from there, the story moves along. I didn't like the whole child thing, and not because I don't like kids myself (which I don't), but I felt that it was a little too cliche and he was really kind of an ass about it.
That being said, the steam is a solid 4.5 stars, but the story itself fell a bit flat. I'd say 3.5 so I rounded up to an even 4.
Spoiler
This is the second book I’ve read by this writer and it will be the last. This book was not good. I held on at it had such good reviews I thought I might I just be missing something, but I wasn’t. Here are the problems:1.) language problems. Why are American characters using UK/Aussi word choice and slang. It was super off putting. This would have easily been fixed by having an American editor, and it took me out of the story. Secondly, the French was really poorly written, and I don’t understand why you would add a second language and not get a native speak to read those few phrases
2.) the idea that Cameron wouldn’t be able to track her down with almost infinite resources, when all he would have needed to do was call the hotel and ask for her name since he had her room number is maddening. Also, his brother is a millionaire computer programmer, but he couldn’t access his contacts from the cloud? Wtf
3.) misogyny. The way they talk about sex workers, while working alongside/being clients of said sex workers was gross. Ashley is seen as a good woman taking care of her child, but the rest of the sex workers are seen as addicts with bad judgement.
They way the brothers call each other pussies, and woosies. The general toxic masculinity. The absolutely stereotypical one demential gay character who runs a multi millionaire dollar company while also having time to be “one of the girls” going shopping and out to lunch on a whim again I repeat wtf
4.) absolutely zero research about how medical school works?!! Like you’re gonna have both main characters be doctors and not have a mild understanding of the different requirements of med school degree. Apparently Ashley is so magical she doesn’t need to do a residency, matching, on call etc. do 15 minutes of research.
MC annoyance.
I read this book years ago and have always thought about it, and decided to reread it. I honestly can’t stand either of the MC’s personalities. I feel for Ashley but I can’t get past some of her actions and Cam just comes across as a power hungry control freak and it’s so off putting. I do love their story, I just can’t get past the personalities and the way things happen between them.
I read this book years ago and have always thought about it, and decided to reread it. I honestly can’t stand either of the MC’s personalities. I feel for Ashley but I can’t get past some of her actions and Cam just comes across as a power hungry control freak and it’s so off putting. I do love their story, I just can’t get past the personalities and the way things happen between them.