Reviews

Hottie by Tia Fanning, Demi Alex

pattyfgd's review

4.0

Retired Navy Seals always are the best alpha males and Dane fills this role unquestionably. Phoebe pulls into town, her pink cadillac not running properly. In walks hot mechanic Dane. There is something about the hotness of insta-love books that keeps a book going. Their relationship from the very start is explosive, not necessarily with sex, but their banter is both funny and entertaining. The story while short has a well developed storyline of Phoebe's past, her crazy ex and the introduction to Dane's BDSM lifestyle. A really fun listen!

You couldn't have a better narrator for this alpha male than La Petite Mort. His voice is warm and seductive creating that safe feeling for Phoebe. Ruby Rivers creates Phoebe with spunk and temptation. The perfect narrating team!

scoobygirl93's review

4.0

This was great! I have a few negatives but mostly positives. The progression was a little quick for me in the beginning, but I understand that that's due to it being such a short book, plus I'm personally a control freak and wouldn't be able to relax shall we say, as quickly as Phoebe did. There were also a very few minor typos, but that tends to happen with ebooks I've noticed. There were so many small things in this book that I really appreciated because I rarely if ever see them in sexy/smutty books. When they had sex it was shown that there were condoms involved without taking you out of the sexiness of the scene. There was clear consent before they did anything. This is where my previously stated control freak issues came up because personally I'd be setting the guy down for a full on conversation beforehand BUT i can realize that that's not necessary for everyone and consent was definitely made clear. I would have liked if he had made sure she had safewords but that didn't seem to pose a real problem. They have great communication, he always makes sure she's okay, she tells him any issues she has, etc. Amazing show of communication. This shows the importance of aftercare. This perfectly illustrates that in a D/s relationship the sub is the one actually in control and also the distinct difference between an abusive relationship and a D/s relationship, which some books don't do remotely well at all *cough* fifty shades *cough*. I really appreciate that he told her that he was on her computer and interacted with her ex, though I would have appreciated if he'd also told her about disabling her car, though I have a feeling he will in the next one.
Overall this was very well done and, as I said, has a lot of small things that make me very happy to read. I'm very much looking forward to seeing what happens in the next one!