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courtsbooknook's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
3.5
I like the combination of spice and mystery in these books. It always keeps the reading interesting and I always like the big reveal for tension purposes. I loved Alyssa and after seeing hints of her in books one and two, I'm glad she got her own story. I liked the angst happening with her and Luc and their spicy moments were definitely hot, but he also irritated me immensely. He was a bit of a slut shamer (for nothing) and there were a lot of misunderstandings on his part if he would have just gotten his out of his sooner. I was rooting for them to be together, but there was so much avoidance of actually talking to each other that it became a little much for me. Add in the accidental pregnancy trope and I was definitely feeling annoyed. I do enjoy the series and I like the introductions of new characters as set-up for the next installments. Tyler was a great secondary character and I am thrilled to read his story for sure.
ac223's review against another edition
3.0
First of all.. Luc lives in Tyler TX, which is only about 30 minutes from me, just an interesting tidbit of info. Luc has held his infertility a secret all of his life. With his cousin Deke determined not to start a family, his only home in raising a child with his bloodline is to hope that Deke gets someone pregnant during one of their famous menages. When Deke starts falling for Kimber in book two, he is determined to make a life that includes all three of them, and children. When Kimber finds out she is pregnant, he is the only one who is thrilled. Deke, and Kimber finally work out their problems, and start planning a life together. What Luc didn't consider is that he wouldn't be a part of that life. His dreams of being a father now depend on finding a woman who will be a good mother, and who is ok with adoption. Allysa, owner of the well known strip club Sexy Sirens, is sure that she and Luc share something more than great sex. He is attracted to her without a doubt, but knows that she won't fit in to the future he has planned. Luc agreed to be a guest chef at her new restaurant, but Alyssa has other plans that don't involve cooking. Despite his attraction, and her seduction, Luc is determined to stay away from Alyssa. When someone starts threatening her, he doesn't want to look too close to the protective, and possessive feelings he has towards her.
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Alyssa ran away at fifteen, when her step brother assaulted her, and her mother didn't believe her. She wasn't old enough to get a job, so had to turn tricks to feed herself. While on a bus out of town, a lady told her that stripping is almost as lucrative, and a lot safer. She has been stripping since. Luc is judgmental about Alyssa in the beginning, and never realizes that Alyssa put herself through college, and has a masters degree. She owns the club, and is opening a restaurant, so that she can leave her old lifestyle behind. They both love one another, but Luc is determined to have his white picket fence, and Alyssa doesn't fit in that life. She is crushed when she opens her heart to him, and he refuses it. Several weeks after being separated, both of them are miserable. When she comes to East Texas to tell him she is pregnant, he decides to go along with her story, knowing that he cant be the father. He asks her to marry him, secretly thrilled to be given the opportunity to have a child of his own. He doesn't believe the child is his, because he is sterile, no matter how many times she tells him it can only be his. When Alyssa finds out from Kimber accidentally that Luc is sterile, she knows that he married her thinking the child wasn't his, and that is the only reason he is with her. She kicks him out, and sends divorce papers. Luc realizes, as all men do, too late that he can't live without her. He drives to Lafayette to win her back, only to discover her step brother has not only found her, but has plans to kill her. They get away safely, and live happily ever after.
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Alyssa ran away at fifteen, when her step brother assaulted her, and her mother didn't believe her. She wasn't old enough to get a job, so had to turn tricks to feed herself. While on a bus out of town, a lady told her that stripping is almost as lucrative, and a lot safer. She has been stripping since. Luc is judgmental about Alyssa in the beginning, and never realizes that Alyssa put herself through college, and has a masters degree. She owns the club, and is opening a restaurant, so that she can leave her old lifestyle behind. They both love one another, but Luc is determined to have his white picket fence, and Alyssa doesn't fit in that life. She is crushed when she opens her heart to him, and he refuses it. Several weeks after being separated, both of them are miserable. When she comes to East Texas to tell him she is pregnant, he decides to go along with her story, knowing that he cant be the father. He asks her to marry him, secretly thrilled to be given the opportunity to have a child of his own. He doesn't believe the child is his, because he is sterile, no matter how many times she tells him it can only be his. When Alyssa finds out from Kimber accidentally that Luc is sterile, she knows that he married her thinking the child wasn't his, and that is the only reason he is with her. She kicks him out, and sends divorce papers. Luc realizes, as all men do, too late that he can't live without her. He drives to Lafayette to win her back, only to discover her step brother has not only found her, but has plans to kill her. They get away safely, and live happily ever after.
whatcha_listening_to's review against another edition
1.0
Spoiler Review
I can’t with Luke. His childish jealousy finally got on my nerves.
He believes no one he doesn’t ask questions he believes the worst. The utter worst. If a man ever accused me of such thing my god I would have slapped him.
Alissa deserves better. Yeah in the end they live happily ever after but I was just over by it by this time.
The narration was better than the last book.
I can’t with Luke. His childish jealousy finally got on my nerves.
He believes no one he doesn’t ask questions he believes the worst. The utter worst. If a man ever accused me of such thing my god I would have slapped him.
Alissa deserves better. Yeah in the end they live happily ever after but I was just over by it by this time.
The narration was better than the last book.
fueledbywords's review against another edition
4.0
So... I just read this book in two hours...not something I would usually pick up but boy am I glad I thought it was something else. This the best Sunday afternoon I've had in awhile lol. It didn't have the best plot and the lead guy...Luc...was a jerk for most of the book. But it gets four stars just for being "entertaining" (lol) alone. Will it win a Nobel Peace Prize, probably not, but did it take my mind away from my personal troubles...YES INDEED!!
tunafish's review against another edition
emotional
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
claudtxr's review against another edition
2.0
DNF 60%
This book is ridiculous!!! I'm at 60% and Luc STILL see/treats Alyssa like a whore mean while he thinks he "loves her" I was ready to put this book down at 23% but figured I'd give it a chance but i cant take it anymore. I don't even think ill bother reading any of the other books.
This book is ridiculous!!! I'm at 60% and Luc STILL see/treats Alyssa like a whore mean while he thinks he "loves her" I was ready to put this book down at 23% but figured I'd give it a chance but i cant take it anymore. I don't even think ill bother reading any of the other books.
cmdc325's review against another edition
4.0
Umm.. How sexy are they characters. The tension was so think at the beginning, I kept being like sleep together already! There was a point where both of them kept doubting each other feelings for each other and I was like oh my gosh stop you guys love love each other chill. I felt like so many things happened in like 300 some pages. There were some crazy twists. I mean there were the suspects that they kept mentioning, but you never who did what. I, in a way, wanted Tyler to be bad, but I did like that he was good in the end. I really enjoyed this books. liked the characters ok. Like i said there may have been a little too much crammed in the book, but it all worked out in the end. I would recommend this to romance lovers and those who have started this series.
sj9642's review against another edition
4.0
Oh, I really liked Luc in Decadent, but for most of this one I thought he was a predigest snob. I really did not like him, which is a shame. Oh sure, of course he realized he was being an ass, but almost a little too late. I liked Alyssa a lot and I liked Tyler too.
lauribooks's review against another edition
1.0
Tras releer la saga completa, tengo que decir que esta tercera parte me ha decepcionado también. No he logrado conectar con los personajes, no los he entendido y no me he podido meter en la historia. No me he creído la relación amorosa entre los protagonistas, para mí no tiene ningún sentido que estén juntos, sus personalidades no se complementan y no me parece realista (repito, según MI opinión, no pretendo ofender a nadie).
leahkarge's review against another edition
4.0
Holy hell. If I thought I'd read Erotica before this, I was sadly mistaken. Delicious tells the continuing story of Luc Traverson, a famous chef, and Alyssa Devereaux, a stripper turned business owner. In the previous book, starring Luc's cousin Deke and his now-wife Kimber, Luc makes a deal with Alyssa: take part in a ménage with him and Deke in exchange for any culinary favor she might require. Taking advantage of the deal, Alyssa partakes of six hours of fantastic sex with Luc upon Deke's departure and makes him promise to work as chef in the kitchen of her new restaurant for its opening week. This is where the story continues in Delicious. Throughout his week there, they have mind-blowing sex, have an on-again-off-again love-hate relationship, and Alyssa acquires a stalker who makes threats against her life. After he leaves and goes back to his "normal" life where he has a "normal" girlfriend who fits his idea of having a "normal" family, Luc continues to pine for Alyssa. Until the day she comes back into his life. And tells him that she's pregnant. He has always wanted a baby and, even though he firmly believes that the baby is not his because his doctor told him he had too low of a sperm count to have children, he jumps at the chance to marry Alyssa. Even though they are married and both realize that they love each other, they still have trouble trusting each other and adequately expressing their feelings. One night when Luc is out of town, Alyssa comes home to find their bedroom trashed and calls Tyler, her friend, bodyguard, and the man who makes no secret of his love for her and jealousy of Luc. After frantically searching for her and calling out all his friends to help, Luc finds her at Tyler's house. In his bed. In nothing but the man's t-shirt and her thong. Naturally, he freaks out, thinking she cheated on him, and after a frightening sexual experience, Alyssa finally tells Luc about how her stepbrother, Joshua, raped her when she was fifteen. When Luc goes out of town next, he leaves his friends on a constant rotation for watching her. During one of those watches, Tyler and Hunter both get shot and the councilman attempting to close her club burns it to the ground, almost taking her with it. While in the hospital, Kimber accidentally lets slip Luc's sterility secret to Alyssa, and understandably upset, Alyssa kicks Luc out and refuses to see or talk to him. On Thanksgiving, he receives annulment papers and drives to see her. Luckily, he arrives just in time because the stalker has broken into her house again in order to rape and murder her. In the end, Luc and Alyssa kill Joshua (the stalker, if you didn't catch that). In an attempt to prove how much he really loves Alyssa, he gives her custody papers, saying she could have full custody of their baby. Finally, they totally and completely admit their feelings and decide to stay together forever and work out any future problems, living happily ever after.
Okay, first thing I want to address: the sex. Hot. Damn. This has to be one of the sexiest books I've ever read. The sex scenes lasted whole chapters, sometimes more, and I have to say that they were definitely come of my favorite parts. Luc and Alyssa were so terrific together and I loved their passion and chemistry, inside and outside the bedroom. Damn if I didn't wish that was me he was having sex with.
Luc...Ohhhh, Luc, how I love you so...I'm not even exactly sure what to say about this man. He is one of the most delicious males. Despite his jealousy and refusal to admit his true feelings for Alyssa, he was amazing. In all parts of his life, he is some part dominant, some part tender, intelligent, and so many other things. His desire to have a baby and family, while often frustrating because it inhibited his relationship with Alyssa, was sweet and made me love him more. I loved how possessive and protective her was of Alyssa while at the same time being tender and loving. The only thing that sucks is how long he insisted that Alyssa kept lying to him and how many times he basically called her a whore.
I loved Alyssa. She was funny, intelligent, creative, and I loved how she did everything she could to seduce Luc back to her bed. I felt sympathy for her when everyone, particularly Luc, treated her badly for her profession. I celebrated in her victories when she showed the people around her that she wasn't just a no-account stripper. However, I hated, absolutely HATED, that she let Tyler touch her so intimately; it grated on my nerves that anyone but Luc was touching her that way.
Speaking of Tyler...I wanted to punch his face every single time he came into the story. Even after Alyssa told him that she loved Luc he relentlessly tried to convince her otherwise. He was so smug when Luc came to his house and found Alyssa in his bed and I was really hoping that Luc, Jack, or Hunter would hit him or something. So, that being said, I was very, very satisfied when Luc said that he got a punch in on the dick when Tyler prevented Luc from talking to Alyssa.
I'm pretty sure I almost cried when Peter tried to rape her, which he might as well have since he put his nasty fingers inside her. Primpton was a creep and disgusting. I mean, seriously. Taking pictures of the poor girl while she's having sex with Luc?! Ew. Joshua I wanted to kill. I knew the stalker was him, even if I didn't know his name, as soon as we found out that she was raped as a kid, but once she actually told Luc about it, my suspicions were confirmed. And it really sucks that Tyler didn't say anything about it possibly being Joshua once it all started happening.
Overall, this book was utterly fantastic and deserves all five of the stars I gave it. Really, if I could give it more, I would. Now I definitely need to get my hands on the other books so I can read them, too.
Okay, first thing I want to address: the sex. Hot. Damn. This has to be one of the sexiest books I've ever read. The sex scenes lasted whole chapters, sometimes more, and I have to say that they were definitely come of my favorite parts. Luc and Alyssa were so terrific together and I loved their passion and chemistry, inside and outside the bedroom. Damn if I didn't wish that was me he was having sex with.
Luc...Ohhhh, Luc, how I love you so...I'm not even exactly sure what to say about this man. He is one of the most delicious males. Despite his jealousy and refusal to admit his true feelings for Alyssa, he was amazing. In all parts of his life, he is some part dominant, some part tender, intelligent, and so many other things. His desire to have a baby and family, while often frustrating because it inhibited his relationship with Alyssa, was sweet and made me love him more. I loved how possessive and protective her was of Alyssa while at the same time being tender and loving. The only thing that sucks is how long he insisted that Alyssa kept lying to him and how many times he basically called her a whore.
I loved Alyssa. She was funny, intelligent, creative, and I loved how she did everything she could to seduce Luc back to her bed. I felt sympathy for her when everyone, particularly Luc, treated her badly for her profession. I celebrated in her victories when she showed the people around her that she wasn't just a no-account stripper. However, I hated, absolutely HATED, that she let Tyler touch her so intimately; it grated on my nerves that anyone but Luc was touching her that way.
Speaking of Tyler...I wanted to punch his face every single time he came into the story. Even after Alyssa told him that she loved Luc he relentlessly tried to convince her otherwise. He was so smug when Luc came to his house and found Alyssa in his bed and I was really hoping that Luc, Jack, or Hunter would hit him or something. So, that being said, I was very, very satisfied when Luc said that he got a punch in on the dick when Tyler prevented Luc from talking to Alyssa.
I'm pretty sure I almost cried when Peter tried to rape her, which he might as well have since he put his nasty fingers inside her. Primpton was a creep and disgusting. I mean, seriously. Taking pictures of the poor girl while she's having sex with Luc?! Ew. Joshua I wanted to kill. I knew the stalker was him, even if I didn't know his name, as soon as we found out that she was raped as a kid, but once she actually told Luc about it, my suspicions were confirmed. And it really sucks that Tyler didn't say anything about it possibly being Joshua once it all started happening.
Overall, this book was utterly fantastic and deserves all five of the stars I gave it. Really, if I could give it more, I would. Now I definitely need to get my hands on the other books so I can read them, too.