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annalwaring21's review against another edition
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
cupofteabookblog's review against another edition
5.0
This book! What can I say but Shayla has done it again. The More Than Words series has all the things, angst, romance, emotion, humor and a page turning plot. Evan is such an amazing alpha hero that is too logical for his own good. Romance is not apart of his life plan. Nia is such an amazing heroine! She is smart, funny and sassy enough to take Evan on! This book has such amazing emotion that it gave me a book hangover for days. This book is all the things and will make you want to read it again. I cant wait to see what happens next in the series!
ezichinny's review against another edition
4.0
★★★½
I had high hopes for this story but I just needed a little more. It took a while to develop and the pacing was off.
Nia Wright worked for Evan Cook as his personal assistant for 3-4 years when Evan’s wife passed away. Evan decided that he needed a new wife to help him keep his home life organized, after all, who’s going to cook, clean and do laundry 🙄🙄🙄.
Evan requests that his PA post an advertisement for a wife to help him, (I must admit that I was completely appalled at this part) and she offered to help him find a more traditional companion. In the meantime, she will fill in by cooking and cleaning his place, while keeping him straight at the office. 🤔 I wonder what woman offers to cook and clean for her boss after spending all day answering his work phone, setting his calendar and grabbing his coffee.
This is the beginning of a cliche storyline but the diversity of the characters added more flavor to the story.
Nia is black and Evan is white. Race didn’t play a big role in the story but their socio-economic status did. I mean, he’s a billionaire and she’s just an assistant. I liked Nia because she was very clear and upfront about her wants and wishes. Evan on the other hand didn’t communicate as well but it was because he didn’t know what he actually wanted. So he made this book challenging as he went from an automaton to a man bursting with feels thanks to his new inspiration Nia.
I liked the story but Evan annoyed me. I’m also sick of the rich unfeeling man stereotype.
I had high hopes for this story but I just needed a little more. It took a while to develop and the pacing was off.
Nia Wright worked for Evan Cook as his personal assistant for 3-4 years when Evan’s wife passed away. Evan decided that he needed a new wife to help him keep his home life organized, after all, who’s going to cook, clean and do laundry 🙄🙄🙄.
Evan requests that his PA post an advertisement for a wife to help him, (I must admit that I was completely appalled at this part) and she offered to help him find a more traditional companion. In the meantime, she will fill in by cooking and cleaning his place, while keeping him straight at the office. 🤔 I wonder what woman offers to cook and clean for her boss after spending all day answering his work phone, setting his calendar and grabbing his coffee.
This is the beginning of a cliche storyline but the diversity of the characters added more flavor to the story.
Nia is black and Evan is white. Race didn’t play a big role in the story but their socio-economic status did. I mean, he’s a billionaire and she’s just an assistant. I liked Nia because she was very clear and upfront about her wants and wishes. Evan on the other hand didn’t communicate as well but it was because he didn’t know what he actually wanted. So he made this book challenging as he went from an automaton to a man bursting with feels thanks to his new inspiration Nia.
I liked the story but Evan annoyed me. I’m also sick of the rich unfeeling man stereotype.
amz101's review against another edition
5.0
Yet again, Shayla delivers an outstanding plot, with amazing, well developed characters, and a love story that’ll have you lost for words.
More Than Crave You is book 4 in the More Than Words series. It can be read as a stand-alone but best read from book one of the series called More Than Want You.
After reading book three of this series and getting a peek into Evans life, I knew I had to know more, knew their has to be a book for him so when I read the blurb to this and realised it was his story, I was excited as ever and Shayla did not disappoint!
Evan? He’s overly cautious, he overanalyses every little thing and makes sure everything is logically correct, to control everything he could around him. My heart broke for him, he’d grown up in the foster system and had married a girl he rescued when he was just a young man, he’d lost his wife and unborn child in a car accident and as time went by he realised he wanted to find love again and that his wife would want him to. So he comes up with the idea of advertising for a woman and got his assistant Nia to help but it’s not as straight forward as that..
Nia? She’s a witty, free spirited, fun, loving, successful, hard working and helplessly in love and wanting a happily ever after with Evan, and honestly she’s exactly the type of woman who would be perfect for him.
The relationship between the two could not be more complicated. It’s a friends to lovers romance, and the two of them are two totally different people, total opposites. As much as Nia wants him, Evan is reluctant as ever and has placed a wall up between the two of them, to try control the way he was feeling about her. And Nia has secrets of her own that prove that she’s not the woman he thought she was.
But when together they are fireworks, hot as hell, all consuming and down right dirty and sexy! The passion, lust and intimacy between the two of them is on fire and I could feel it all the way through.
This story isn’t just based around their love story, it always included family drama and work drama.
This story has some twists and turns in it, and it’ll have you second guessing what exactly is going on, but as per usual Shayla throws you many curve balls and keeps you on the edge of your seat, flipping pages frantically and wanting to know what happens next!
I absolutely love Evan and Nia. Their unrequited, friends to lovers love story took hold of me tightly and very quickly and I managed to devour this book within 48 hours.
It’s most definitely worth a 5 star rating, if not more!
More Than Crave You is book 4 in the More Than Words series. It can be read as a stand-alone but best read from book one of the series called More Than Want You.
After reading book three of this series and getting a peek into Evans life, I knew I had to know more, knew their has to be a book for him so when I read the blurb to this and realised it was his story, I was excited as ever and Shayla did not disappoint!
Evan? He’s overly cautious, he overanalyses every little thing and makes sure everything is logically correct, to control everything he could around him. My heart broke for him, he’d grown up in the foster system and had married a girl he rescued when he was just a young man, he’d lost his wife and unborn child in a car accident and as time went by he realised he wanted to find love again and that his wife would want him to. So he comes up with the idea of advertising for a woman and got his assistant Nia to help but it’s not as straight forward as that..
Nia? She’s a witty, free spirited, fun, loving, successful, hard working and helplessly in love and wanting a happily ever after with Evan, and honestly she’s exactly the type of woman who would be perfect for him.
The relationship between the two could not be more complicated. It’s a friends to lovers romance, and the two of them are two totally different people, total opposites. As much as Nia wants him, Evan is reluctant as ever and has placed a wall up between the two of them, to try control the way he was feeling about her. And Nia has secrets of her own that prove that she’s not the woman he thought she was.
But when together they are fireworks, hot as hell, all consuming and down right dirty and sexy! The passion, lust and intimacy between the two of them is on fire and I could feel it all the way through.
This story isn’t just based around their love story, it always included family drama and work drama.
This story has some twists and turns in it, and it’ll have you second guessing what exactly is going on, but as per usual Shayla throws you many curve balls and keeps you on the edge of your seat, flipping pages frantically and wanting to know what happens next!
I absolutely love Evan and Nia. Their unrequited, friends to lovers love story took hold of me tightly and very quickly and I managed to devour this book within 48 hours.
It’s most definitely worth a 5 star rating, if not more!
meganonpaper's review against another edition
4.0
This was a great story of finding love after loss, right in front of you. Evan is a self-made billionaire, who we met at the end of More Than Love You. His life is in disarray after the sudden loss of his wife and unborn child 6 months earlier, so he decides he needs a wife to settle things down. Evan is always thinking thinking thinking, and his rational, logical side rules. He enlists the help of his assistant Nia, who lives life by her heart. The story seemed a bit rushed to me during the first part, but the last half is where this book really shines. There was drama and misunderstanding and more Reed family chaos. We also get a glimpse t our favorite couples from the previous books! I love that this book features an interracial couple. Love can happen anywhere and to anyone, and this showed that beautifully. I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader copy.
tita_noir's review
4.0
3.5 stars,
Quick little read. I liked how the author crafted both Evan and Nia. I also like it when the author makes the heroine more sexually experienced than the hero. Nia had what was probably a fairly typical sexual history when talking about IRL, but too often in romance novels I have found that authors try hard to make the heroine's sexual history either rather spare. So the frank and unapologetic acknowledgement of past sexual partners (plural), especially for the heroine is rather welcome.
The chemistry and dialogue between them was also very well done.
a few quibbles tho -
1) I know saying 'I love you' is something of a requirement in romance novels. But Nia was a bit hard headed about Evan in that regard imo. If she knew him as well as she was supposed to she would know how his mind works. How he processes emotions. Even as a reader I could tell that everything he said was about loving her even if he didn't know enough to say the words. It felt like rather a strange hill to plant your flag on given everything else they were experiencing with each other.
2) the 11th hour conflict. I hate these because very rarely do they feel organic, they oftentimes feel like just yet one more road block to throw up before you decide to finalize the HEA. This was already a high conflict romance, so adding one more just seemed like overkill. And how it developed, from Evan discovering something about his first wife and then taking the word of a stranger he just met over what he knew about Nia and then conveniently overhearing a damning snippet of a conversation -- just felt like plot contrivance dialed up to 10.
3) I like a good twist. But when it isn't convincing or feels too convenient then it fails. Nia's background revelation wasn't a surprise (I suspected it early on) but it didn't work for me the way it unfolded (see #2 above).
Even so, the strong parts of the book -- Evan and Nia's chemistry and their characters -- overshadowed the more problematic parts for me.
Quick little read. I liked how the author crafted both Evan and Nia. I also like it when the author makes the heroine more sexually experienced than the hero. Nia had what was probably a fairly typical sexual history when talking about IRL, but too often in romance novels I have found that authors try hard to make the heroine's sexual history either rather spare. So the frank and unapologetic acknowledgement of past sexual partners (plural), especially for the heroine is rather welcome.
The chemistry and dialogue between them was also very well done.
a few quibbles tho -
1) I know saying 'I love you' is something of a requirement in romance novels. But Nia was a bit hard headed about Evan in that regard imo. If she knew him as well as she was supposed to she would know how his mind works. How he processes emotions. Even as a reader I could tell that everything he said was about loving her even if he didn't know enough to say the words. It felt like rather a strange hill to plant your flag on given everything else they were experiencing with each other.
2) the 11th hour conflict. I hate these because very rarely do they feel organic, they oftentimes feel like just yet one more road block to throw up before you decide to finalize the HEA. This was already a high conflict romance, so adding one more just seemed like overkill. And how it developed, from Evan discovering something about his first wife and then taking the word of a stranger he just met over what he knew about Nia and then conveniently overhearing a damning snippet of a conversation -- just felt like plot contrivance dialed up to 10.
3) I like a good twist. But when it isn't convincing or feels too convenient then it fails. Nia's background revelation wasn't a surprise (I suspected it early on) but it didn't work for me the way it unfolded (see #2 above).
Even so, the strong parts of the book -- Evan and Nia's chemistry and their characters -- overshadowed the more problematic parts for me.
enneirda07's review against another edition
fast-paced
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Another Reed sibling who needs therapy