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A review by rays_reads
Throttled by Lauren Asher
4.0
Overall Rating: 4/5
This romance was super cute, and I loved how both characters were also focused on their career and romance.
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Ngl.... I lowkey forgot what I wanted to write about in this review so.. sorry if it's unorganized...
This book took me out of a mini-slump. I had just read a bad book and DNFed another so I was really hoping this romance book was what I needed. And I was right! This book was super cute and light on the smut (as I don't care for it much in romance books). We got to see each characters grow in their careers while getting to know each other and I found myself really enjoying the world of F1 racing. I don't think I've ever read the brother's rival troupe so this was pretty interesting and made for some fun drama. Lowkey Maya was messy for going after someone her brother hated LMAO.
Maya and Noah were very cute. I enjoyed the banter between the two and I honestly loved how honestly they were. It's refreshing. Noah stated that he only wanted something sexual in the beginning of their "romance" and I feel like many MMCs don't tend to communicate that until its too late so seeing Noah be honest about that and how he doesn't want anything more was a bit respectable. Because contrary to popular belief I think anybody can purse only sexual relationships if they want to as long as the partner consents to only wanting sex as well. As for Maya, I both give her props and the side eye. After hearing Noah's proposition to s "sex-only" relationship she stood her ground and stood true to her beliefs in saying she only wanted sex with a personal connection. I feel like authors try to hard and when a FMC wants the MMC to like them they do the "I can change him" approach by hoping the sex can stir feelings. But with Ms. Asher, she instead say "nah fam fuck that shit my FMC stands up to her beliefs." This made me respect Maya a ton.
AND WHEN NOAH WENT TO ACTUAL FUCKING THERAPY?!?!?!?! I fucking folded right there because I've never read anything more sexy than a man wanting to change for himself and for a woman who he can see as a potential life partner. Seeing Noah work through his struggles almost made me cry because unfortunately men irl rarely care to fix their trauma.... same can be said for some women but either way I was so happy for Noah when he got help.
Overall the romance was cute however I will say I felt like it did drag a bit after the main climax of the story passed but after reading that epilogue I melted a little at the couples sweetness :)
I'm a bit worried to start the second book as I didn't really like Sophie...
This romance was super cute, and I loved how both characters were also focused on their career and romance.
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Ngl.... I lowkey forgot what I wanted to write about in this review so.. sorry if it's unorganized...
This book took me out of a mini-slump. I had just read a bad book and DNFed another so I was really hoping this romance book was what I needed. And I was right! This book was super cute and light on the smut (as I don't care for it much in romance books). We got to see each characters grow in their careers while getting to know each other and I found myself really enjoying the world of F1 racing. I don't think I've ever read the brother's rival troupe so this was pretty interesting and made for some fun drama. Lowkey Maya was messy for going after someone her brother hated LMAO.
Maya and Noah were very cute. I enjoyed the banter between the two and I honestly loved how honestly they were. It's refreshing. Noah stated that he only wanted something sexual in the beginning of their "romance" and I feel like many MMCs don't tend to communicate that until its too late so seeing Noah be honest about that and how he doesn't want anything more was a bit respectable. Because contrary to popular belief I think anybody can purse only sexual relationships if they want to as long as the partner consents to only wanting sex as well. As for Maya, I both give her props and the side eye. After hearing Noah's proposition to s "sex-only" relationship she stood her ground and stood true to her beliefs in saying she only wanted sex with a personal connection. I feel like authors try to hard and when a FMC wants the MMC to like them they do the "I can change him" approach by hoping the sex can stir feelings. But with Ms. Asher, she instead say "nah fam fuck that shit my FMC stands up to her beliefs." This made me respect Maya a ton.
Overall the romance was cute however I will say I felt like it did drag a bit after the main climax of the story passed but after reading that epilogue I melted a little at the couples sweetness :)
I'm a bit worried to start the second book as I didn't really like Sophie...