mx_manda 's review for:

The Goode Girl by Jack Harbon, Shiloh Clark

2.0

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I'm not even sure how to rate this.

So. This story is exactly what it says it is—it's an erotic story (not a romance), that involves a lot of hard to like people, daddy kink/humiliation kink/domination play, and a situation of cheating-for-pay. I'm not someone who gets their pearls clutched over the last part and have enjoyed some books with similar themes (I recently read a similar one by Kat Taylor/Katee Robert, for example) but something about this one really didn't Do It for me.

Spoiler

A certain amount of "god, I am horrible/a slut/etc in this type of story goes over fine with me, but this one leans really heavily into that aspect and it took all of the Sexy out of the story for me. She thinks she's a cheating slut. Her fiancé thinks she's a cheating slut. Alessio pretty much thinks she's a cheating slut—but seems the most fine with it. And when we add the dimension of who the author is into that... it made it all feel a bit icky rather than taboo and a bit naughty. Obviously for a lot of people this worked, it just didn't for me. YMMV.

So I didn't really enjoy this one so much—except for the breeding kink—but I am curious to read some of this author's other work.

Real rating: 2.5 stars