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This Man by Jodi Ellen Malpas
4.0

Okay, so if this book wasn’t a billion pages long (Close to 500) I would have rated it 5 stars! The actual plot, left me itching for more, but I was also left itching for more due to the lack of answers! Basically, this book is so long because the sex scenes take up a great deal of the book.

Basically, we have no clue how old Jesse really is, as he plays some little game telling her every time she asks that he is one years older from the original 21 answer he gave (he seems to think she will run if she finds out his age) but in the end it’s not his age, its his profession that makes her run. The entire book you can tell he owns some gentleman’s club where they go to get their rocks off not a fucking hotel. Seriously, she’s the most oblivious bitch I’ve ever encountered. Basically, she’s obvious to the fact he’s an alcoholic, and hates when she drinks and refuses to drink with her, but he is nice enough to always give her a glass or two of wine whenever they’re social, which I think is super nice considering how controlling he is. But no, she likes to get sloshed in his presence, thinking its just him being an ass that he gets so angry.

He also, from the moment he has sex with her, claims her as his and she doesn’t really realise what that means and stupidly says yes, then wonders why he won’t leave her alone. She also doesn’t realise, thinking because he’s hot its impossible, but he doesn’t date or do the relationship thing, he roots and boots and keeps it that way. How he finds that many women is beyond me. But when you got the goods and the money I guess anything is possible!

So her main issue is Sarah, who is his business partner. She’s always trying to weasel her way into Jesse’s day, get between them because of her clear jealousy that he’d be with someone more than once.

Anyway, by the time she figures out what The Manor actually is, she loses her shit at Jesse for purposefully deceiving her, which is mega stupid. Wouldn’t you not want her to work at a place if you were worried she would find out. She gave him the option when she tried not to work for him, and he perused her to make it happen. He brings it on himself. However, Jesse seems to have a major issue with people abandoning him, maybe because his parents disowned him? I’m unsure so far, but basically once she leaves, he drinks himself into oblivion, which is where we are left, with Ava scared for the person he has become, and him blaming her for his drinking because she left him. I’m sorry Jesse, I love you immensely, but you should have been through counselling for the alcoholism, and we both know only you can be held accountable for your actions, not because someone else did something that made you feel a certain way.

Basically, they both rely on each other for happiness, and then it’s gone because of a lie. If that wasn’t reason enough for Jesse to stop hiding things, he’s a fucking twat. Because dude, you love her, yet she knows literally only your name. Sigh. No matter the length, I will continue this series, as the characters and plot intrigue me, but a fellow Goodreads friend informed me my answers don’t come until the last book, so I’m in for a wait.