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A review by books_baking_barks
Illicit Temptations by Katee Robert
4.0
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced reader copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. This book is two short stories published together - Make Me Yours and Make Me Need.
Make Me Yours
I have never been shy about my hatred of the pregnancy trope, and the first few chapters of this book hit all my sore spots. Aaron blackmails Becka into moving in with him as soon as he finds out she’s pregnant, and with all the past trauma Becka is working through I didn’t fully understand why she would want to have this baby. I never really connected with Aaron’s character, but Becka did grow on me a bit. And as with all Katee Robert books, we get lots of spice and the slow redemption of the characters and their relationship. It is nice that they love each other for their flaws instead of in spite of them, but I found some of those irredeemable and therefore didn’t really connect. 3⭐️
Make Me Need
A boss/employee, older brother’s best friend/ best friend’s little sister spicy romance that is much more suited to my taste in romance tropes. I liked Trish and Cam’s relationship, and I found Cam’s standoffishness/ inability to read others/ tendency to take things literally more of a neurodivergent trait than a character flaw. I will also always love a character with retro style, and Trish’s use of her sunny disposition to hide her real emotions reminded me of Persephone from the Dark Olympus series. I found her actions towards the end really stupid, and I felt like the solution to their problem was more obvious than they made it out to be, but it resolved fairly quickly into their HEA. 4⭐️
Make Me Yours
I have never been shy about my hatred of the pregnancy trope, and the first few chapters of this book hit all my sore spots. Aaron blackmails Becka into moving in with him as soon as he finds out she’s pregnant, and with all the past trauma Becka is working through I didn’t fully understand why she would want to have this baby. I never really connected with Aaron’s character, but Becka did grow on me a bit. And as with all Katee Robert books, we get lots of spice and the slow redemption of the characters and their relationship. It is nice that they love each other for their flaws instead of in spite of them, but I found some of those irredeemable and therefore didn’t really connect. 3⭐️
Make Me Need
A boss/employee, older brother’s best friend/ best friend’s little sister spicy romance that is much more suited to my taste in romance tropes. I liked Trish and Cam’s relationship, and I found Cam’s standoffishness/ inability to read others/ tendency to take things literally more of a neurodivergent trait than a character flaw. I will also always love a character with retro style, and Trish’s use of her sunny disposition to hide her real emotions reminded me of Persephone from the Dark Olympus series. I found her actions towards the end really stupid, and I felt like the solution to their problem was more obvious than they made it out to be, but it resolved fairly quickly into their HEA. 4⭐️