Okay I definitely liked this more than the first one. I could actually feel the chemistry (which I didn’t really in The Fine Print) and the tension was AMAZING. I still don’t find the insane protectiveness/possessiveness that these billionaire men portray an attractive quality (like threatening bodily harm to any other man who even dares to look in their ladies’ direction) but I can forgive Declan that because he saved that dog 🥹 I also loved Cal as Iris’s best friend, very curious about his book now. 

Slight error in this book: Defcon 5 isn’t the dangerous one, that’s Defcon 1 🙄 (should’ve caught that in editing). Stuff like that annoys me. Also, I listened to the audiobook and it was very difficult to make out all the foreign words they were using (which made it almost impossible to look up their meanings). If the way they pronounced the Dutch “gezelligheid” and German “ich liebe dich” is the standard for how all those foreign expressions were pronounced in the audiobook it’s no wonder I couldn’t make out most of them 🙈 (I get that English is the first language of these narrators but this is my plea to please do SOME research into pronunciation when you come across words in other languages). Another complaint: can romance authors please stop using the phrase “looking at someone like they hung the moon”, it’s such a cliché expression and I’ve seen it used so many times in romance novels it gets annoying 🙄

<i>Was there chemistry?</i>

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<i>Was the spice any good?</i>

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