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Hush Hush by Lucia Franco
3.0
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.