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A review by idratherbereading542
Scandalous by Cala Riley

5.0

- Heroine: Aurora
- Harem: Santiago (aka Santi) (The.Boricua), Drake (The.American), Liam (The.Aussie), Ezra (The.Brit)
- POVs Included: Multiple POVs (Aurora, Drake, Ezra, Santi, Liam)

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SUMMARY: (SPOILER WARNING)

Aurora is an online influencer who specializes in cooking videos. She loves doing it and loves her online community — especially four frequent commenters who are even bigger online influences than her.

They are nicknamed The United Nations. Santiago is The.Boricua, Drake is The.American, Liam is The.Aussie, and Ezra is The.Brit. And she’s had a bit of a crush on them for awhile. What she doesn’t know though is that the four best friends have also had a crush on her. And they’re about to make their move.

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REVIEW:

I loved this! It was so sweet and sexy and fun. Minimal drama within the relationship itself. For most of the book it was actually pretty smooth sailing until a sex tape scandal featuring all five of them surfaces.

At first this reminded me a bit of another book I read called “I Think Knot” by Sinclair Kelly. That one is an Omegaverse book though. And it’s about two rival online influencers.

Still, I adored the whole social influencers twist. It was so much fun to see them interact with each other and such. It kind of feeds that fantasy about two social influencers who you just KNOW are together but aren’t saying so. lol Anyways, I enjoyed this part of the story a lot, even if it would undoubtedly make their unconventional relationship more difficult.

I loved Aurora and all her guys. Even asshole Ezra. I understood his motives and he quickly changed his tune and groveled gloriously once he realized the error of his ways.

There’s a lot of sex and kinks going on in this one too, most of which are ones I personally like to read about. The only one I’m not a big fan of is pegging. But all the others I was totally on board with. DP? Yes. Praise? Yes. Degradation? Yes. Weird that I enjoy both of those, but I do.

Aside from the sex I really felt them all falling for each other. I enjoyed the minimal angst and drama too. I do like angsty romances sometimes too, but this was nice as well. I liked how she spent a good amount of alone time with each of the guys as well as together as a group.

I also loved the M/M thrown in there. And I appreciated that the two guys who weren’t bi weren’t skittish about group sex. All around good stuff!

Overall this was so much fun to read. I couldn’t put it down. Loved the characters. Loved their open communication. Loved the steam. It was a great lighter RH!