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A review by jaypeg
Need You Tonight by Roni Loren
3.0
This was the story of Tessa and Kade. This was not my favourite story. I just didn't find Tessa a very aspirational heroine. She just felt a bit weak and insipid. She is a goodlooking, cheerleader girl who didn't stand up for herself from childhood because she was a foster kid scared of being rejected. I get the sense in that, but the history behind how the two characters met was so sad, I just wanted Tessa to have been stronger back then. It kind of made me lose a bit of respect for her.
Kade is a great hero but I find his former vulnerability a bit at odds with the confident man he has become. We are given many flashbacks of Kade and Tessa as teenagers which in the end I found a little jarring as I couldn't reconcile the these people with the adults they had become very smoothly.
It was a good story but a bit angst heavy and sad for me. The evil ex was a bit of a caricature of badness really and although i know the book worked hard to make Tess sound independent, I just felt like she walked straight from one overbearing relationship into another! I know the author argued this point though so perhaps it's just me.
It was still a hot read and I loved the bits with Colby! The BDSM aspect was more full on here. There is a pretty intense scene at the end which I didn't completely get into because I felt like The hero was too distraught for it. I think it must be very hard to be in control and dishing out pain when you have just had such an emotionally negative experience preceding this. I know the author was trying to show Kade's dark side, but it just didn't feel like it was coming from the right place.
Kade is a great hero but I find his former vulnerability a bit at odds with the confident man he has become. We are given many flashbacks of Kade and Tessa as teenagers which in the end I found a little jarring as I couldn't reconcile the these people with the adults they had become very smoothly.
It was a good story but a bit angst heavy and sad for me. The evil ex was a bit of a caricature of badness really and although i know the book worked hard to make Tess sound independent, I just felt like she walked straight from one overbearing relationship into another! I know the author argued this point though so perhaps it's just me.
It was still a hot read and I loved the bits with Colby! The BDSM aspect was more full on here. There is a pretty intense scene at the end which I didn't completely get into because I felt like The hero was too distraught for it. I think it must be very hard to be in control and dishing out pain when you have just had such an emotionally negative experience preceding this. I know the author was trying to show Kade's dark side, but it just didn't feel like it was coming from the right place.