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gallusquared's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
rayyreads's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Sooooo cute I cant 🥹🥹
sofia2605's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
secret_librarian's review against another edition
5.0
Rating: 5
Steam: 4
PoV: multiple, 1st person
MMM | age gap | opposites attract | forced proximity
Teach Me To Sin was an emotional read that brought me some more broken men to love and treasure!
I have to admit that I was initially hesitant about how things would come together for Alek, Benji and Colson, as they seemed like an unlikely trio… but damn, the attraction and chemistry between them was really something else. Their story was mesmerising and emotional - a journey full of obstacles and twists, and at times it felt like they had all odds against them.
It was a story that had me captured right from the start, and I was so intrigued by the characters and their dynamic. Riley Nash truly excels at writing complex characters with traumatic pasts, and both Alek and Benji pulled hard on my heart strings with their backgrounds and secrets. Colson surprised me, I wasn’t a big fan of him from the earlier books but he really grew on me. He seemed so hardened and cold at the beginning, but I loved how soft and sweet he was with his boys.
Teach Me To Sin was a strong ending to the Water, Air, Earth, Fire series - I completely adored these flawed men and their story, and there was just so much to love in this book. The whole series has been absolutely amazing, and I can’t recommend it enough!
Steam: 4
PoV: multiple, 1st person
MMM | age gap | opposites attract | forced proximity
Teach Me To Sin was an emotional read that brought me some more broken men to love and treasure!
I have to admit that I was initially hesitant about how things would come together for Alek, Benji and Colson, as they seemed like an unlikely trio… but damn, the attraction and chemistry between them was really something else. Their story was mesmerising and emotional - a journey full of obstacles and twists, and at times it felt like they had all odds against them.
It was a story that had me captured right from the start, and I was so intrigued by the characters and their dynamic. Riley Nash truly excels at writing complex characters with traumatic pasts, and both Alek and Benji pulled hard on my heart strings with their backgrounds and secrets. Colson surprised me, I wasn’t a big fan of him from the earlier books but he really grew on me. He seemed so hardened and cold at the beginning, but I loved how soft and sweet he was with his boys.
Teach Me To Sin was a strong ending to the Water, Air, Earth, Fire series - I completely adored these flawed men and their story, and there was just so much to love in this book. The whole series has been absolutely amazing, and I can’t recommend it enough!
becksgoesbookish's review against another edition
5.0
Literally the perfect conclusion for this series! I've been eagerly anticipating the final book in this series since having book one recommended to me earlier this year. At that point, I became a Riley Nash superfan (especially for the audiobooks). But even though I usually stick with audio once I have started a series that way, there was no way I was going to sit on this book!
Without giving too much away, this book is about Alek (whom we know), Colson (whom we have heard about), and Benji (whom we have yet to meet) finding exactly what they need in each other as the perfectly balanced trio. I have read a lot of three-person relationship books this year and this one hands down is the best. Not only was their group perfectly balanced as a trio, but the relationship growth was written in a way that shows how the group would have been incomplete if one of them were missing. Plus each duo also had their own distinct dynamic, and we often get to see that acknowledged through the eyes of the third MC.
Per usual, this book brought hurt/comfort perfection, but this time it was magnified between all three MCs in different ways.
Though this can be read as a standalone after book 1, I would strongly recommend reading all 3 books (and the novella) in advance of reading this book otherwise the full scope of the friend group dynamics won't be as evident.
*I received an arc of this book, all opinions are my own*
Without giving too much away, this book is about Alek (whom we know), Colson (whom we have heard about), and Benji (whom we have yet to meet) finding exactly what they need in each other as the perfectly balanced trio. I have read a lot of three-person relationship books this year and this one hands down is the best. Not only was their group perfectly balanced as a trio, but the relationship growth was written in a way that shows how the group would have been incomplete if one of them were missing. Plus each duo also had their own distinct dynamic, and we often get to see that acknowledged through the eyes of the third MC.
Per usual, this book brought hurt/comfort perfection, but this time it was magnified between all three MCs in different ways.
Though this can be read as a standalone after book 1, I would strongly recommend reading all 3 books (and the novella) in advance of reading this book otherwise the full scope of the friend group dynamics won't be as evident.
*I received an arc of this book, all opinions are my own*
teenykins's review against another edition
3.0
"Fuck choosing. I want everything."
3.5 stars and I'm not sure if I want to land on rounding up or down.
I was anticipating this since I read that it was gonna be Alek's story and that it was going to be MMM made it all the better! And although it was a lovely story and 300+ pages long I don't feel like I got to know Alek, Colson not Benji.
'I'm scared. But there's a comforting, breathing weight against my chest and my back, two people I want with a desire so primal and confused I can't process the thought of choosing between them.'
If you ask me what it comes to mind when I think of Alek, it's his father and the Center. Yes these are 2 major points in Alek's life but I wanted to read about him overcoming his fear of the water, taking it back and getting to enjoy it, his father's miasma not touching him anymore, but that was almost like a note in the end and not even from his POV. It was like he was a ghost in his own story.
When it comes to Benji he is a completely unknown for me. If it was ever mentioned why he went ahead with his father's schemes I totally missed it and I can't recall at all. He dropped like a dynamite in Alek's life breathing life and devastation as well. When he should have stand firm and help Alek he cowered and for that I can't forgive him.
And lastly Colson. Colson was so drowned into what he was, how wrongly he treated Gray it took the whole story to see another side of him. If he felt so bad about what he did to Gray, Gray's words about his selfishness so ingrained in him, why he never did something to change? I don't mean wholly because of course he had to change when he found the loves of his life but at least do a couple of steps forward and be such an a-hole. Although that a-hole had amazing chemistry with Alek!
I would have loved so incredibly for them to have had more time together, open up to each other and treat their hurts much more than we did, especially since it mostly had to do with current events and not events that scarred them before.
Finally I wished we had more time with them together sexually. I'm sorry but you can't just drop that Alek is a size queen mid sex scene, once and that's it. Yes I'm unapologetically a perv and proud of it.
All and all unlike the other 3 books in the series, I don't think we delved as deep here and I wanted more for Alek darn it all!
I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book.
3.5 stars and I'm not sure if I want to land on rounding up or down.
I was anticipating this since I read that it was gonna be Alek's story and that it was going to be MMM made it all the better! And although it was a lovely story and 300+ pages long I don't feel like I got to know Alek, Colson not Benji.
'I'm scared. But there's a comforting, breathing weight against my chest and my back, two people I want with a desire so primal and confused I can't process the thought of choosing between them.'
If you ask me what it comes to mind when I think of Alek, it's his father and the Center. Yes these are 2 major points in Alek's life but I wanted to read about him overcoming his fear of the water, taking it back and getting to enjoy it, his father's miasma not touching him anymore, but that was almost like a note in the end and not even from his POV. It was like he was a ghost in his own story.
When it comes to Benji he is a completely unknown for me. If it was ever mentioned why he went ahead with his father's schemes I totally missed it and I can't recall at all. He dropped like a dynamite in Alek's life breathing life and devastation as well. When he should have stand firm and help Alek he cowered and for that I can't forgive him.
And lastly Colson. Colson was so drowned into what he was, how wrongly he treated Gray it took the whole story to see another side of him. If he felt so bad about what he did to Gray, Gray's words about his selfishness so ingrained in him, why he never did something to change? I don't mean wholly because of course he had to change when he found the loves of his life but at least do a couple of steps forward and be such an a-hole. Although that a-hole had amazing chemistry with Alek!
I would have loved so incredibly for them to have had more time together, open up to each other and treat their hurts much more than we did, especially since it mostly had to do with current events and not events that scarred them before.
Finally I wished we had more time with them together sexually. I'm sorry but you can't just drop that Alek is a size queen mid sex scene, once and that's it. Yes I'm unapologetically a perv and proud of it.
All and all unlike the other 3 books in the series, I don't think we delved as deep here and I wanted more for Alek darn it all!
I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book.
rosegoldenby's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
luli2112's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
renata08's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0