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Dirty Sexy Saint
by Carly Phillips, Erika Wilde
A good steamy read...but...
This was a good steamy read, but I honestly wanted to like it more than I did. The idea was good, but the pace was too quick and I didn't really feel the connection between Clay and Samantha. It wasn't completely insta-love, more insta-lust but it happened so quickly and there wasn't really an intense slow build-up like I was expecting. Samantha's character changed in a complete 180 in the first couple of chapters which was really odd. The sex scenes were steamy and hot, and I liked getting the snippets of Clay past and his brothers were intriguing characters (so I may read their stories sometime).
And most of the story was very predictable and it was just about the sex.
Finally, this book is written in 3rd person pov, past tense and I really felt that contributed a lot to not seeing the connection between the characters. I find this really gets to me, especially in a short romance read, without much dialogue. The fly on the wall narrator drove the plot and it made the story drag a little even though it was short.
So pretty much I read this book because I wanted to know the story before I watch the movie on Passionflix and this time around I'm going to say that quite possibly the movie will be better than the book.
I enjoyed this book, but definitely won't be busting my balls or bank account to urgently read more by these authors. Thank goodness for public libraries (where I got this one from)
anyway, enough Caz rambling. Signing off.
This was a good steamy read, but I honestly wanted to like it more than I did. The idea was good, but the pace was too quick and I didn't really feel the connection between Clay and Samantha. It wasn't completely insta-love, more insta-lust but it happened so quickly and there wasn't really an intense slow build-up like I was expecting. Samantha's character changed in a complete 180 in the first couple of chapters which was really odd. The sex scenes were steamy and hot, and I liked getting the snippets of Clay past and his brothers were intriguing characters (so I may read their stories sometime).
And most of the story
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other than Clay's father figure coming backFinally, this book is written in 3rd person pov, past tense and I really felt that contributed a lot to not seeing the connection between the characters. I find this really gets to me, especially in a short romance read, without much dialogue. The fly on the wall narrator drove the plot and it made the story drag a little even though it was short.
So pretty much I read this book because I wanted to know the story before I watch the movie on Passionflix and this time around I'm going to say that quite possibly the movie will be better than the book.
I enjoyed this book, but definitely won't be busting my balls or bank account to urgently read more by these authors. Thank goodness for public libraries (where I got this one from)
anyway, enough Caz rambling. Signing off.