ARC received for an honest review

I wasn't sure what to expect with Smut, so I went into this one completely blind.

And what I got was a sweet, geeky rom com of a story that, while it took me a while to get into it (don't get me wrong the first scenes were quite funny, but then it dragged a bit for me (but this could have just been me). Don't get me wrong, it was good, but it just seemed to take a while to get a roll on.

Amanda and Blake's story is like a rom com movie - a real hate/love relationship that you know where it is going to end up, but you don't know how it will get there.

I loved Amanda's geekiness, the LARPing (though I don't get the Benedict Cumberbatch obsession - don't understand that obsesssion at all). I loved her kinda-sorta awkwardness.

And oh Blake - I loved that boy, from his smirk to his snarky comments to the tips of his toes. I loved his banter with Amanda, I loved how much he cared for his little brother, and I loved how he was with his "houseguest" Fluffy - this made me laugh out loud more than once.

One thing that did irk me a little though was Amanda's aversion to romance books and the romance/erotica genre in general. The romance community feels like they are berated, made to feel less of writers enough as it is, and I didn't need to have it in my books as well - but again, this could just be my feelings.

Smut was a fun, eventually smutty story that I read in one sitting. Now Ms Halle, what will you bring us next?