A Deal with the Devil

I absolutely loved this. I was desperate for Hayes' POV.

This was boss/assistant, grumpy, banter, romance. A touch of a slow burn as well. It was such a fun read and I loved the banter and the charm they both had.

Talia has a lot going on in her personal and family life. She's being pulled in every direction, and in debt up to her eyeballs.

She gets a short term assistant job that'll definitely help pay her bills, but said boss is very British and very demanding. She calls him Satan, but slowly realizes that he is much more than she's quickly judged him for.
She starts to take care of him with vegetable morning smoothies, forced days off, and the occasional lunch break in the sun. He hasn't ever really had anyone take care of him before. Someone always wants him for something (sex, money, etc).

And Talia is always the competent one. Her family relies on her to pick up the slack, and they assume that she I'll help with anything. (Paying bills, home health care..).
Hayes needs her but in a different way, and she is growing addicted to that feeling.

The angst of the will they won't they was killer. I was devouring the pages needing more of them. This was the perfect length leaving me wanting more but I also need a whole other book with them as a couple. More than the epilogue.

Why do so many of the mmc's have to start out as manwhores? Once again we have an inexperienced woman and a man who can't keep it in his pants... Even tho he claims to be in love with her for months. I also get SUPER frustrated with lack of communication! So instead of telling each other how they feel they cause tension and fake scenarios in their heads.
The good? Fun side characters. Actual good change from manwhore.

This book is everything and I loved it. Was it written incredibly well? I mean probably not???
Was it fun as hell? Y E S. I laughed until my ribs hurt, I cried from both sadness and overwhelming happiness, and I just felt for the characters. This is one of the times where the 3rd act breakup made sense.
I just had so much fun reading this and I think I might even be over the slump. I plan on diving into the next book ASAP.

This is the best smutty romance I've read in a long time.
I was actually excited as I read each chapter, because their banter was so good, and actually funny. I absolutely enjoyed their chemistry. 
Their were a few cheesy plot points but I didn't mind it at all. 
I'm not usually a series girl, but I might read this entire series.

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Okay, this was absolutely delightful, so delightful, in fact, that I read it in less than 5...hours? I've been having some bad luck with books recently, and wanted something low-pressure, fun, and easy to read. A Deal with the Devil met every single one of those points, with the added bonus of being written extremely well. I liked all the characters I was supposed to, when I'm usually sort of resigned to at least being irritated by the main character. (Why are so many main characters in romance novels whiny?) Talia was extremely competent in just about everything she was asked to do. But she'd only do what she was told if she could gripe about it. She had a smart, wicked mouth. I loved watching her and Hayes bicker with each other. That's quickly becoming a favorite trope of mine — the mild-dislike-to-lovers trope. If you like that one, too, you'll love A Deal with the Devil.

Anyway, Talia is a debut novelist struggling to finish her first book in time. She's poor as dirt, with a family that's struggling after her father died. When her friend offers to let her work as his replacement while he's off adopting his daughter, Talia leaps at the chance. Only...she knows she'll be working for a man that she despises. Only like...we're never really given a reason why she hates him. Not that it really matters — I think we're supposed to assume that her friend talked bad about Hayes before, but we don't see that in the book. Either way — I liked how we saw Talia struggle with writing while being so good at just about everything in her life. It was a nice foil.

I can see why someone might dislike this book — Hayes is extraordinarily wealthy and appears to work continuously so he can become even more so — but I truly, truly enjoyed it. I loved how much Hayes wanted Talia before they bent together, and I really loved how much he was willing to change in order to be right for her. They both shifted their lives in order to work together. They were so similar, but so right for each other.

I hope the next book in this series is just as good.

Find be better banter between MCs. I'll wait.