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3.6 AVERAGE
3.6 AVERAGE
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Don't Tempt Me begins when Honor moves into her new house. She's bound and determined to do all the work herself, but when her sexy neighbor Jason, and his brother and nephew start to interfer things go a little bit crazy for her. And when her best friend Lexie is on their side it gets much worse for Honor, when she's the type of person who doesn't want anyone to help her at all.
However, Honor can't seem to fight the attraction she has towards Jason, and he's bound and determined to make her his.
Add in Lexie getting a guy of her own and you have a romance book filled with two couples finding each other when they need it most.
This book was really good, and another great read from Lori Foster.
I loved Jason and Honor together, and I really liked that you get to see Lexie's romance as well.
Then of course, you get to meet the other members of their little neighborhood and it just adds to the fun.
Honor was an interesting heroine, however, she really took her "can't let anyone help me" attidute a bit to far in my opinion. It was beyond frustrating.
Other than that I really did like her a lot, and I loved her and Jason together.
Jason was a very great hero as well. He knew exactly how to handle Honor, and his feelings towards her were awesome! I adored Jason, he was a favorite in the book for me.
The plot line was also very interesting as well. It kept me wanting more after I started reading, and it felt like a classic Lori Foster book with some new characters! I'm excited for some of the other characters to get their own book now!
Don't Tempt Me begins when Honor moves into her new house. She's bound and determined to do all the work herself, but when her sexy neighbor Jason, and his brother and nephew start to interfer things go a little bit crazy for her. And when her best friend Lexie is on their side it gets much worse for Honor, when she's the type of person who doesn't want anyone to help her at all.
However, Honor can't seem to fight the attraction she has towards Jason, and he's bound and determined to make her his.
Add in Lexie getting a guy of her own and you have a romance book filled with two couples finding each other when they need it most.
This book was really good, and another great read from Lori Foster.
I loved Jason and Honor together, and I really liked that you get to see Lexie's romance as well.
Then of course, you get to meet the other members of their little neighborhood and it just adds to the fun.
Honor was an interesting heroine, however, she really took her "can't let anyone help me" attidute a bit to far in my opinion. It was beyond frustrating.
Other than that I really did like her a lot, and I loved her and Jason together.
Jason was a very great hero as well. He knew exactly how to handle Honor, and his feelings towards her were awesome! I adored Jason, he was a favorite in the book for me.
The plot line was also very interesting as well. It kept me wanting more after I started reading, and it felt like a classic Lori Foster book with some new characters! I'm excited for some of the other characters to get their own book now!
*I got this book from the publisher via NetGalley for an honest review*
Guys. I lied. Last month (well last week) I said that I was going to avoid romance novels for awhile. oops. guess that didn't last long. This book was written well. Honor Brown moves into a fixer upper to be closer to her ill and elderly grandfather. She meets her neighbors, Jason and his brother Hogan and Hogan's son Colt. She's immediately drawn to Jason, but she's hesitant to let him in because she hasn't had that many great experiences with loving relationships (mostly from her family.) As she starts to fix up her house, coming and leaving at odd hours Jason notices, they slowly start to fall for each other. Don't forget about the random (or maybe not so random) break in's that keep happening to her home, and what's gonna happen with her family when her grandfather passes?
The romance in this story I felt was semi-realistic. It kind of happened quickly, and then slowed down. I also wasn't sure what was going on when halfway through the book we suddenly start hearing the story from Lexie's(Honor's best friend) point of view. Most of the book was either Jason or Honor, and then all of the sudden randomly Lexie and Sullivan. I felt that was a little unnecessary because it didn't really add to the whole story, especially since I'm assuming the next book in this series will be about Hogan and not Lexie or Sullivan. Anyway, that bugged me a little ( part of why I gave this book three stars). The other reason it only got three stars because at the end I was kinda like "meh" it wasn't the greatest book I've ever read, but it wasn't the worst. Just right there in the middle.
Guys. I lied. Last month (well last week) I said that I was going to avoid romance novels for awhile. oops. guess that didn't last long. This book was written well. Honor Brown moves into a fixer upper to be closer to her ill and elderly grandfather. She meets her neighbors, Jason and his brother Hogan and Hogan's son Colt. She's immediately drawn to Jason, but she's hesitant to let him in because she hasn't had that many great experiences with loving relationships (mostly from her family.) As she starts to fix up her house, coming and leaving at odd hours Jason notices, they slowly start to fall for each other. Don't forget about the random (or maybe not so random) break in's that keep happening to her home, and what's gonna happen with her family when her grandfather passes?
The romance in this story I felt was semi-realistic. It kind of happened quickly, and then slowed down. I also wasn't sure what was going on when halfway through the book we suddenly start hearing the story from Lexie's(Honor's best friend) point of view. Most of the book was either Jason or Honor, and then all of the sudden randomly Lexie and Sullivan. I felt that was a little unnecessary because it didn't really add to the whole story, especially since I'm assuming the next book in this series will be about Hogan and not Lexie or Sullivan. Anyway, that bugged me a little ( part of why I gave this book three stars). The other reason it only got three stars because at the end I was kinda like "meh" it wasn't the greatest book I've ever read, but it wasn't the worst. Just right there in the middle.
A straight ahead small town contemporary, involving home rehab and both toxic and good families. External plot involves tracking down miscreants. Felt a little all over the place with a not very developed secondary romance. I'll always read more Lori Foster.
This was a DNF for me... I read several chapters... liked a lot of it. But... the whole Violet thing put me off. 1) Yeah, I know he wasn't a virgin... but do we really need to meet an ex? 2) From the next book it looks like Violet & Hogan end up together... now, Violet had sex with Jason... Hogan's brother... it's all just too icky for me. I mean, it just reminds of 'Secret Smile' when he says 'I came in that mouth'... sorry, but no matter how incredibly wise and mature you are... if a sibling had sex with an ex there is always lingering concerns. 3) Why did the author have to do that? Completely turned me off. And that makes me a little sad, cos I was enjoying it.
Wow... just bad. And yikes that ending was suuupper cringe worthy.
Lori Foster is one of my go-tos for a good contemporary romance. She knows what she's doing. What strikes me every time I pick up her new book - with Don't Tempt Me being no exception - is how real her characters feel. I can very much imagine that these are real people. They're not perfect, they're just perfectly done. I loved her MMA books, but her romances that feature the cute-guy-next-door make me all giddy. I think that's because she makes me believe in real life happily ever afters.
You really get your moneys worth with Don't Tempt Me, because you're actually getting two stories in one book. Jason and Honor might be the main focus, but Sullivan and Lexie's story holds its own. I felt like this book wasn't long enough. I wanted, or maybe needed more from both of these couples. And thank goodness there's a note at the end of the book about a sequel in the future. The critical reviewer in me wants to talk about how over the top the ending was. I won't spoil anything, but there's a lot of mushy moments. But the romance reader in me just can't get over how right it felt. And even if cheesy endings aren't your thing, the story leading up to it is worth it. There's a real sense of family in this book - whether blood related or the family you make along the way. And that's where Lori really shines. These characters become real, and the sense of community sticks with you.
See more at my blog, Novel Addiction.
You really get your moneys worth with Don't Tempt Me, because you're actually getting two stories in one book. Jason and Honor might be the main focus, but Sullivan and Lexie's story holds its own. I felt like this book wasn't long enough. I wanted, or maybe needed more from both of these couples. And thank goodness there's a note at the end of the book about a sequel in the future. The critical reviewer in me wants to talk about how over the top the ending was. I won't spoil anything, but there's a lot of mushy moments. But the romance reader in me just can't get over how right it felt. And even if cheesy endings aren't your thing, the story leading up to it is worth it. There's a real sense of family in this book - whether blood related or the family you make along the way. And that's where Lori really shines. These characters become real, and the sense of community sticks with you.
See more at my blog, Novel Addiction.
This book was uninspired and more boring than I could possibly express. It was extremely difficult to finish, and I kept leaving & coming back to it because I don't like quitting halfway through. This book embodies why romance isn't a genre that people take seriously- because authors can be lazy and formulaic and get away with it. The main character, Honor, is the wounded dove who had a broken childhood that she really hasn't been able to move past, whose innocence/naivety/gullibility/wholesomeness is just too out there to believe (you know, the perfect enticement for our manly, protective alpha male lead). For god's sake, she can't even bring herself to say that her dog has to go out to pee, she says he needs to "visit the grass." But for some reason this personality-evocative-of-a-prepubescent-girl is just what it takes to ignite the fiercely protective instincts of the predictable guy next door. But wait, she's not just vulnerable, the shocking twist is that she's also surprisingly tough! She's going to renovate an entire house herself to prove to everyone that she's not in over her head! The constant internal narrative was gag inducing. She's endlessly ashamed of some sort of mysterious personal drama that gets played up enough at the beginning to make me wonder if she's secretly killed someone and getting blackmailed over it. That would be interesting, right? But no, turns out she has an aging grandfather with dementia that she dotes on enough to get called to his nursing home in the middle of the night, almost every night, but is somehow ashamed and frightened that someone might find out? Because, my god, the horror of someone having family obligations! I get it, you don't want to be a burden, but the constant neuroticism involved in this character's thought process on forming attachment is just unrealistic. The hoops you have to jump through to even convince yourself that the main character is a real human and not a weakly thrown together literary trope will give you a headache. Don't even get me started about the ridiculous "conversations" the love interests have with one another or their "chemistry" that I couldn't even suspend my disbelief long enough to try to enjoy. While good, convincing romance may be difficult to find, it's worth the wait. Don't try and trudge through this garbage in the meantime. (In case it wasn't clear- do not recommend, in the strongest terms.)