Temptation

I could not bring myself to finish this book.

First, it feels suspiciously like a Fifty Shades knockoff. Right down to the “girl in a situation with a guy she doesn't want, big Dom man happens to be there under totally normal and not stalking circumstances after to take care of her”.

Second, while the writing is not terrible, it does not go deep enough into any situation characters thoughts to make me feel connected to them or understand them or care at all about them.

Third, she is a weak-willed idiot. Kind of an offensive sub stereotype. I'm sure she eventually gains some sort of agency, I mean I'd hope, but a wilting violet isn't the poster child for a submissive. Not that all subs have to be ultra-powerful girl-bosses in control of their emotions by day or w/e, but she's clearly a sub stereotype of the worst kind. Either way, I don't have the time to continue reading and find out if she does gain agency, I have too many more-promising books to spend my time on.

All things considered, it lost me around the part after a man tries to force himself on her and as she's walking home she thinks to herself, regarding the tank top and mini skirt and heels she's wearing, “ugh look at me, no wonder he thought that's what I wanted”.

2⭐️ 2.5

If I could give half a star I would. I am not a reader of romance novels but as part of a book group we were asked to read a book from the romance genre to expand our horizons...well I'd like to keep my horizons away from this sort of romance. I mean I've read romance but this is the likes of Fifty Shades of Grey and quite horribly done. Seems to be written for the shock value, which is not that shocking if you enjoy more than one position in the room!

Penny is a collage student in her sophomore year who accidentally bumps into her professor, at which point she did not realize was her professor, and then sees him at her first class that day. Of course it's a senior class but Penny being the overachiever has decided to take it on early. A romance ensues with lots of public and private sex where they are almost caught. In this time she realizes Professor Hunter is holding secrets about his millionaire past...which of course one does as he is a professor and not her friend...and when Penny realizes the secret she decides to try and sleep with her “best friend” who is a guy who at the beginning of the story sexually assaults her!! Why!! Why would you even become best friends with a guy who obviously has ulterior motives for being your friend...which he admits to.

Ugh, this book was just horrible. The weakness Penny exudes is all blamed on her feminine naivety and inexperience. I really struggled finishing this book and skimmed most of the story. Oh and the cherry on top...Penny has been withholding her age to the professor...ummmm ok?!....and when he finds out she's 3 years younger than he thought he's out! He's ghosting her and that's how the story ends....”will Professor Hunter ever forgive her”....really....is this what people like?

I literally gave this the old college try...pun intended...but will not ever read another book like this.

Re-read/Re-listen 10/1/17-10/3/17A re-do because the sequels are out and I'm preparing for the pop quiz ... LOL ... Actually I wanted something fun to listen to while I finish some unpleasant reads. Reasons I'm glad I picked this because it's just as crazy and improbable as I remember and I love it. As a matter of fact I feel like I should disavow my original review. I don't know what cantankerous person wrote that. Maybe I'd been body snatched? Dunno. Logan and Tate are every fantasy you ever wanted and I use the word fantasy on purpose. Are they possible? Sure. Anything can happen. Probable? Likely not. And yet I don't care. I like to think of these two paradigms of male beauty lighting up Chicago with their unbridled lust and sexual stamina. Lust. Sex. Rinse. Repeat. That is really the driving force of the first 70% of the book. I was happy with this. It's done very well. claps What puts this on the tier of “like verging on love” is the other 30% of the book, the parts where Tate “decides” and jumps into the deep end of the pool and the parts where Logan is vulnerable and we get a peek at his humanity. What puts this over the top is the promise of what's to come and for that I'll bump it up to 5. Also a bump because, unlike other series/books, time has made me like it more than I did upon the first read. I've kind of gotten used to [a:Shannon Gunn 6996772 Shannon Gunn https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]'s level of enthusiasm when he does the sex scenes. He is very good with Logan's voice, Tate's veers between okay and making him sound not too bright, but women just elude him. There are male narrators who do women's voices very well, see [a:Chris Patton 1381825 Chris Patton https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1297104882p2/1381825.jpg] in The Adrien English series, but that is not the case here. You can't win them all. Let the re-reads continue. ;)********Re-read/re-listned to on from 6/13/16 to 6/17/16In the wake of the Orlando horror I felt like I needed something mindless to ease me back into reading and had recently gotten an audio deal on some books I already owned, such as this one, so I felt this would be a good option for my AM & PM commute. Zero stress. And I was right. It is fairly much as posted on my original review with the happy update that I kind of got to like the MCs and see where they're coming from and that plain old lust can surely lead to something more, which is what Logan & Tate will presumably explore in the next installments. I will however have to read those as the narrator [a:Shannon Gunn 6996772 Shannon Gunn https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] seems to be reading some kind of horror book and not a romance. This is particularly jarring during the sex scenes and the voices he does for women are just NO. But the worst is the way, especially at the beginning, he makes Tate sound almost like a dumb lug. Granted we know nothing really about Tate save that he's a soon to be divorced-motorcycle-riding-bar-tender who seems to be a little unhealthily attached to his family and what they think of him, given his age (29) but hopefully there's more to him than just looking hot in leather.So to recap: I'm glad I reread this as it was bit sweeter the second time around. People falling in lust/love was a good antidote to the news streaming in of hate and the attendant pain it brings.***********ORIGINAL REVIEW:This was a mixed bag for me. I enjoyed the smexy times but can't say that I liked anyone in this book. Not the MCs Logan or Tate to Tate's family who we can just tell are going to be awful to Tate's soon to be ex wife who seems to have come out of central casting as WICKED WITCH.Tate seems to be nothing but a pretty boy who looks hot in leather and on a bike and Logan is the guy you hate except that he's one of the MC's. Aside from the physical attraction and the hot sex we don't get what else these two have in common or what a future they may share. Don't get me wrong a scorching smexy MM read is nothing to scoff at but it's so far not a romance in the larger sense of the word. I'm on the fence as to whether to continue with the series. I'm a bit compulsive so I might but for now it's on hold.