A review by katie_konneker
His Wicked Games by Ember Casey

3.0

Honestly, I kept flip-flopping between giving this a 2 or 3 stars. Even though I gave it a 3, my feelings for it are more of a 2.5.

I was pretty annoyed by the bickering between Calder and Lily that by the end of the book I really didn’t care if they got together. And even though they do (it’s a romance novel, these things always have to have happy endings), it just didn’t feel right. I never got the sense that these two had anything going on on a deeper level between them. Yes they like to fuck and play sexy games with each other, but that’s pretty much all they do. We never see them discuss their hopes or dreams, mainly because they’re both keeping secrets from each other. And if they do try and dig deeper to learn more about the other, one of them always flips out and it starts a fight that ends in a weird pivot to flirtation and then sex.

I’m not hating on the sex scenes, because they were pretty good. There weren’t so many that I was getting bored by them and they were descriptive enough without feeling redundant.

Overall, this book was ok. I definitely won’t be buying the other books in the series, though.