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3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
Lucia didn’t disappoint. This book was freakin p@nty melting. I literally couldn’t get enough of james and Aubrey. The tension & the chemistry was
This was my first Lucia Franco book, and it was very 'meh' for me. I didn't really care for it until the last 3 hours of the book (audio book). Maybe, just maybe it had to do with the NY accents because I'm personally not a fan, and my rating probably reflects that. For me it was a solid 3.5 stars.
The epilogue was my favorite parent. I like how everything ended. :)
The epilogue was my favorite parent. I like how everything ended. :)
"If you don't leave now, I'm going to make you mine forever. It's what you want. It's what I f***in' want, and we both know it. Last chance, sweetheart."
GAHHHHHHH. I was not prepared for what I read when I opened this book.
I repeat. I. WAS. NOT. PREPARED.
I fell in love with Aubrey right away. She's a hard worker, who just so happens to decide to follow her bestie Natalie down the road of smex work.
Through this she meets a man she can't seem to let go of, even though there's a strict rule of not falling for your clients. Do. Not. It only ends messy, which it definitely always does.
I was not prepared to find out who the man she falls for is, or all the damn spice.
Good lord.
10/10 would and will recommend this book to my followers.
GAHHHHHHH. I was not prepared for what I read when I opened this book.
I repeat. I. WAS. NOT. PREPARED.
I fell in love with Aubrey right away. She's a hard worker, who just so happens to decide to follow her bestie Natalie down the road of smex work.
Through this she meets a man she can't seem to let go of, even though there's a strict rule of not falling for your clients. Do. Not. It only ends messy, which it definitely always does.
I was not prepared to find out who the man she falls for is, or all the damn spice.
Good lord.
10/10 would and will recommend this book to my followers.
I gave this book 3 stars only because the sex scenes in the first half of the book were really good.
The rest of this review will be filled with spoilers .
There is so much about this book that thoroughly disappointed and annoyed me. I was actually really looking forward to this story because I love escort romance. With that being said, I have never read a book where the main character made such stupid choices for no reason. It's one thing to say Aubrey was selfish but I don't think she is, I think she is just an idiot. That is the best way to describe her.
To start off, the beginning of this book was quite boring. Nothing exciting happened until maybe chapter 21. The author took us through every single step of Aubrey's life and after a while it was just too much. Aubrey was not doing anything important that was worth reading about in the beginning. When we finally get to the part where Aubrey goes to her interview to be an escort, that was where things really started to pick up. The scene between Aubrey and her Madam was so hot that I gave an extra star to this book just for that.
There are 3 people that play huge roles in this story and I am going to breakdown each character for you and exactly how Aubrey hurt them.
James
James is the mysterious client that Aubrey feels a strong connection to from the moment she meets him. James is 52 while Aubrey is 21 but he is built like a stallion and extremely gorgeous. He is sweet, kind, rich, caring, likes his sex rough and hard but loves even harder. Only problem is, he is married.
Daniel
A young, gorgeous doctor who Aubrey meets before her Escort interview. Daniel is immediately drawn to Aubrey from the moment he meets here. He is kind, super smart, and just loves being with her.
Natasha
Aubrey's ride or die rich best friend who not only invites Aubrey to love in her apartment rent free but also gets her into the Escort service when Aubrey becomes fed up with her job. Natasha is the sweetest, most caring person out there and the definition of ride or die.
Now what happens to these 3 people in this story might have been justified if any of them were downright horrible people or did at least one bad thing...but none of them did anything wrong. These are genuinely good people who were nothing but 100% loyal to Aubrey.
So let's get into why this book was such a disappointment. When Aubrey meets Daniel (before she meets James) he is smitten with her and immediately wants to take her out. They start up a relationship and around the same time she meets James who is her new mysterious client who she is draw to like a moth to a flame. Now this isn't so much a love triangle because we all know that she chooses James in the end but what pisses me off the most is how she drags Daniel along through the entire story for absolutely no reason.
It is blatantly obvious that the person Aubrey wants is James. She states it multiple times but she continues to string Daniel along, letting him fall for her and believing that this is a real relationship, for no reason. She does not even like Daniel and constantly picks out flaws that are not there. When I tell you that Daniel is the sweetest guy ever and is so caring and probably the definition of boyfriend material, I am not exaggerating. From the very beginning, Daniel tells Aubrey that his ex cheated on him and that broke his heart and all he asked from Aubrey was the she would not cheat on her. Now I understand why Aubrey did not tell him about her job from the beginning but what she does later on in the story...she lost all of my support but we will get to that in a minute.
After she meets James it is obvious that Aubrey only wants him. It is important to note that they do not have sex for the first few sessions, James just wants to talk or just watch Aubrey have sex with other men. So the mystery that is James is built for many chapters and the emotional connection is building as well. It is that emotional connection that causes Aubrey to blacklist James from her client list until he tracks her down. She turns down being his 1 year girlfriend that comes with amazing benefits because she doesn't want to break the madam's rule of not falling for a client and she has strong morals and doesn't want to be bought.Good for you Aubrey.
Well guess what, plot twist, James turns out the be Natasha father and that's when everything went downhill. When she finds out that James is her best friend's father all of a sudden those morals and now best friend loyalty is thrown out the window and James offers her 10 million dollars to be his girlfriend or a year. Aubrey accepts and then they start sleeping together. We also learn that James and his wife have an open relationship and are only together for Nat. So his wife is completely fine with him seeing other women but she does not know that the other women include Aubrey. Now don't get confused, James is ONLY dating Aubrey and when they get together he asks her to do one thing, break up with Daniel. Shouldn't be a problem right since we have established that she doesn't love nor even really like Daniel... so why doesn't she break up with him? I can't give you an answer because there isn't an answer.
So for the second half of the book Aubrey is lying to everyone, James about breaking up with Daniel, Daniel about being faithful (because now she has a full on bf/gf relationship with James not just a client relationship), and to Nat about being a good best friend who is not sleeping with her father.
Like I said before, it would be one thing if any of these people were bad but they are not. Daniel is faithful and loyal, James is deeply in love with Aubrey and wants to leave his wife for her, and Nat is the best friend that everyone wants. So when it all comes crashing down it is literally all Aubrey's fault and I feel no sympathy for her. She lied to everyone, used everyone and then had the audacity to get mad at everyone when they all found out.
This is the first book where I wish the main character was just left and everyone found happiness with other people and away from her. She did not deserve anyone and she definitely did not deserve James in the end because she wasn't even faithful to him. She screwed her best friend's father and when she lost everyone she then realized how amazing Nat was and I don't even think she apologized to Daniel.
This was just an overall disappointment and I want to cleanse my mind of this book that I will never read again.
The rest of this review will be filled with spoilers .
There is so much about this book that thoroughly disappointed and annoyed me. I was actually really looking forward to this story because I love escort romance. With that being said, I have never read a book where the main character made such stupid choices for no reason. It's one thing to say Aubrey was selfish but I don't think she is, I think she is just an idiot. That is the best way to describe her.
To start off, the beginning of this book was quite boring. Nothing exciting happened until maybe chapter 21. The author took us through every single step of Aubrey's life and after a while it was just too much. Aubrey was not doing anything important that was worth reading about in the beginning. When we finally get to the part where Aubrey goes to her interview to be an escort, that was where things really started to pick up. The scene between Aubrey and her Madam was so hot that I gave an extra star to this book just for that.
There are 3 people that play huge roles in this story and I am going to breakdown each character for you and exactly how Aubrey hurt them.
James
James is the mysterious client that Aubrey feels a strong connection to from the moment she meets him. James is 52 while Aubrey is 21 but he is built like a stallion and extremely gorgeous. He is sweet, kind, rich, caring, likes his sex rough and hard but loves even harder. Only problem is, he is married.
Daniel
A young, gorgeous doctor who Aubrey meets before her Escort interview. Daniel is immediately drawn to Aubrey from the moment he meets here. He is kind, super smart, and just loves being with her.
Natasha
Aubrey's ride or die rich best friend who not only invites Aubrey to love in her apartment rent free but also gets her into the Escort service when Aubrey becomes fed up with her job. Natasha is the sweetest, most caring person out there and the definition of ride or die.
Now what happens to these 3 people in this story might have been justified if any of them were downright horrible people or did at least one bad thing...but none of them did anything wrong. These are genuinely good people who were nothing but 100% loyal to Aubrey.
So let's get into why this book was such a disappointment. When Aubrey meets Daniel (before she meets James) he is smitten with her and immediately wants to take her out. They start up a relationship and around the same time she meets James who is her new mysterious client who she is draw to like a moth to a flame. Now this isn't so much a love triangle because we all know that she chooses James in the end but what pisses me off the most is how she drags Daniel along through the entire story for absolutely no reason.
It is blatantly obvious that the person Aubrey wants is James. She states it multiple times but she continues to string Daniel along, letting him fall for her and believing that this is a real relationship, for no reason. She does not even like Daniel and constantly picks out flaws that are not there. When I tell you that Daniel is the sweetest guy ever and is so caring and probably the definition of boyfriend material, I am not exaggerating. From the very beginning, Daniel tells Aubrey that his ex cheated on him and that broke his heart and all he asked from Aubrey was the she would not cheat on her. Now I understand why Aubrey did not tell him about her job from the beginning but what she does later on in the story...she lost all of my support but we will get to that in a minute.
After she meets James it is obvious that Aubrey only wants him. It is important to note that they do not have sex for the first few sessions, James just wants to talk or just watch Aubrey have sex with other men. So the mystery that is James is built for many chapters and the emotional connection is building as well. It is that emotional connection that causes Aubrey to blacklist James from her client list until he tracks her down. She turns down being his 1 year girlfriend that comes with amazing benefits because she doesn't want to break the madam's rule of not falling for a client and she has strong morals and doesn't want to be bought.Good for you Aubrey.
Well guess what, plot twist, James turns out the be Natasha father and that's when everything went downhill. When she finds out that James is her best friend's father all of a sudden those morals and now best friend loyalty is thrown out the window and James offers her 10 million dollars to be his girlfriend or a year. Aubrey accepts and then they start sleeping together. We also learn that James and his wife have an open relationship and are only together for Nat. So his wife is completely fine with him seeing other women but she does not know that the other women include Aubrey. Now don't get confused, James is ONLY dating Aubrey and when they get together he asks her to do one thing, break up with Daniel. Shouldn't be a problem right since we have established that she doesn't love nor even really like Daniel... so why doesn't she break up with him? I can't give you an answer because there isn't an answer.
So for the second half of the book Aubrey is lying to everyone, James about breaking up with Daniel, Daniel about being faithful (because now she has a full on bf/gf relationship with James not just a client relationship), and to Nat about being a good best friend who is not sleeping with her father.
Like I said before, it would be one thing if any of these people were bad but they are not. Daniel is faithful and loyal, James is deeply in love with Aubrey and wants to leave his wife for her, and Nat is the best friend that everyone wants. So when it all comes crashing down it is literally all Aubrey's fault and I feel no sympathy for her. She lied to everyone, used everyone and then had the audacity to get mad at everyone when they all found out.
This is the first book where I wish the main character was just left and everyone found happiness with other people and away from her. She did not deserve anyone and she definitely did not deserve James in the end because she wasn't even faithful to him. She screwed her best friend's father and when she lost everyone she then realized how amazing Nat was and I don't even think she apologized to Daniel.
This was just an overall disappointment and I want to cleanse my mind of this book that I will never read again.
I like to this book and then I didn't
In the beginning I truly enjoyed this book I put myself in the shoes of a struggling 21 yo college student making questionable decisions. I can totally understand some of the bad decisions she made she was young and dumb some of the client stories made me laugh (Silence of the Lambs guy) I guess in some ways I can even understand why she accepted James's indecent proposal 10 million dollars is so much money. But by 80% of this book I started to dislike both characters immensely. With Aubrey it was the fact that she started dating a guy who made it very clear he does not want to be with someone who isn't exclusive he has been hurt before and it destroyed him and yet she still strung him along for her own selfish reasons. Then there is James (best friend's dad) I truly don't think I like him at all he was manipulative from the beginning In one breath he's saying how much he loves his daughter but then pursues her best friend. He continuously talks about all the things that his wife doesn't do for him and knowing his wife still loves him strings her along. I can forgive the 21 yr old making bad decisions but dude your in your 50s . After their trip to Colorado I just really started to skim I find it really difficult to get into a book or keep interested in a book where I truly started to dislike both characters. I can forgive characters for a lot of things But morally they were just both horrible people. (and I'm not talking about her being an escort) And after Finding out her friend blew up her parents marriage I don't think any friend would just accept that and continue to be friends. And I think the HEA in this book is relative
In the beginning I truly enjoyed this book I put myself in the shoes of a struggling 21 yo college student making questionable decisions. I can totally understand some of the bad decisions she made she was young and dumb some of the client stories made me laugh (Silence of the Lambs guy) I guess in some ways I can even understand why she accepted James's indecent proposal 10 million dollars is so much money. But by 80% of this book I started to dislike both characters immensely. With Aubrey it was the fact that she started dating a guy who made it very clear he does not want to be with someone who isn't exclusive he has been hurt before and it destroyed him and yet she still strung him along for her own selfish reasons. Then there is James (best friend's dad) I truly don't think I like him at all he was manipulative from the beginning In one breath he's saying how much he loves his daughter but then pursues her best friend. He continuously talks about all the things that his wife doesn't do for him and knowing his wife still loves him strings her along. I can forgive the 21 yr old making bad decisions but dude your in your 50s . After their trip to Colorado I just really started to skim I find it really difficult to get into a book or keep interested in a book where I truly started to dislike both characters. I can forgive characters for a lot of things But morally they were just both horrible people. (and I'm not talking about her being an escort) And after Finding out her friend blew up her parents marriage I don't think any friend would just accept that and continue to be friends. And I think the HEA in this book is relative
I went in blind & this book was so much more than I thought it was going to be. The plot was crazy & the spice was out of this world…
5 ⭐️ 4
5 ⭐️ 4
DNF @ 65%
This was my fault. I knew exactly what the plot was going in and yet I somehow couldn’t get over the indiscretions.
I think what made it all worse was that I didn’t like either character very much. I especially did not like James. I thought he was really arrogant and self-centered. He only seemed to care about himself and his wants, I know the cheating went both ways but the fact that he didn’t hesitate at all in his pursuit of Aubrey after finding out her connection to his family was kind of weird to me.
I didn’t think they worked well together and I DNFed because of it, there was no point in me finishing the story when I wasn’t rooting for them to be together
This was my fault. I knew exactly what the plot was going in and yet I somehow couldn’t get over the indiscretions.
I think what made it all worse was that I didn’t like either character very much. I especially did not like James. I thought he was really arrogant and self-centered. He only seemed to care about himself and his wants, I know the cheating went both ways but the fact that he didn’t hesitate at all in his pursuit of Aubrey after finding out her connection to his family was kind of weird to me.
I didn’t think they worked well together and I DNFed because of it, there was no point in me finishing the story when I wasn’t rooting for them to be together
Unexpectedly I really enjoyed this book! I am so glad Natalie and Aubrey figured it out, cause the way she blew up in front of Daniel was terrible.
Great love story between Aubrey and James, both of them love struck and making terrible decisions. A perfect pair! All jokes aside I did enjoy them and I’m glad they found their way back to each other.
Grammy rest in peace! She was such a big part of Aubrey’s life and that funeral service made be cry. She will be missed!
Definitely a good read and I had fun, 4.7/5! I would most probably read again.
Great love story between Aubrey and James, both of them love struck and making terrible decisions. A perfect pair! All jokes aside I did enjoy them and I’m glad they found their way back to each other.
Grammy rest in peace! She was such a big part of Aubrey’s life and that funeral service made be cry. She will be missed!
Definitely a good read and I had fun, 4.7/5! I would most probably read again.
DNFing but in my defence I never really started it, I just kinda skimmed through to get the vibes and now I’m checking out. I was hoping for something to cure my book slump but frankly I’m better than this