I am 99.9% sure that I already read this book as a One Direction fanfiction on Wattpad.

(2,5 stars, rounded down ✨)

I owned this book for years before picking it up. I sincerely regret picking it up after all this time; I should've left it to collect dust.

I like multiple p.o.v's; it can be a helpful way to bring depth to your story. However, I found myself confused about 60% of the time, and I constantly needed to go back and check who the fuck I was reading about.

ALSO, this book justifies pedophiles? Mark was 29, and Katie was 15. Disgusting, illegal, and highly immoral. They justify their relationship by declaring that "Mark loved her" ???
She is a CHILD. A freaking 15-year-old child who does not have the maturity to know what love is and certainly doesn't know that a 29-year-old is not supposed to lust after a child.

It was slow, the end was anticlimactic, and I was bored.
Thank you, but no.

Oh, the disappointment…

I’ve heard so many great things about this book so I was ecstatic to start reading it but it fell completely short right from the beginning.

I don't even know which one annoys me more, Mr. Grumpy or Miss. Sunshine, because they both suuuck.
Zahra is always obnoxiously happy, but oh the plot twist; she had depression. Her entire personality is that she is the sunshine in each room, there's nothing more to it.
Rowan is the most boring man on this entire planet, fictional or not. He's rich but hates it and assumes everyone is trying to make money off him. Grow up, everything doesn't revolve around you.

If there's one thing that can save a terrible romance novel, it's smut. In this case, however, the smut was so bad that I kinda wish it wasn't there at all.

That being said, I'm cautiously hopeful that her other books are better than this one.

My oh my, I simply do not have the words needed to explain how much I enjoyed this book

3,5 stars ✨

I absolutely loved The Deal, but this one just didn’t quite hit the spot. There were a few instances of fetishizing/sexualizing wlw relationships that made me physically cringe and take a break from the book buuuut, the smut is nice?

Jesus fucking Christ??? This book is SO bad.

This could be because I read it in an Ebook format, but the scene transitions made absolutely zero sense. For example, they could be talking in his bedroom. Then the following line is about her walking into the office?? PLEASE write shorter chapters instead of doing transitions like that since there are also *Seven hours later* transitions. It's confusing, displays poor writing skills, and is overall ugly formatting.

The two main characters of this novel are both incredibly selfish and immature.
They did nothing other than arguing or have sex. They only had meaningful talks after sex or in between arguing. The last three-quarters of the book was pretty much just the same scene rewritten repeatedly. They talked, fought, had sex, and made up... REPEAT.

Jameson is controlling, abusive, and obsessed with Emily, as we see as he stalks her at work and practically demands that she moves in and marries him after just days before snapping over the thought that she's in love with him. The constant push/pull from him is exhausting.

Emily...oh Emily. Her personality is all over the place where she practically demands from herself that she is not "easy" or a "pushover" and that she "will not sleep with him," and then she goes right ahead and sleeps with him because he complimented her once.
Don't get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with wanting to and sleeping with someone interested in you. BUT she goes on and on about how she won't do it and then does it repeatedly.

I originally picked this book up because it's marketed as smut, but even that sucked and was fade to black numerous times?? A SMUT BOOK?? WITH FADE TO BLACK???

Alright, I DNF this book at 72%, and I'm giving it 2,5 stars :)

I struggled throughout the last 20% until I finally decided to call it quits. Only read until they kissed for the first time, and that was it. I didn't need to read any more pages of "oh no, he couldn't possibly be into me."

This book has potential, but it's PG-13, the writing is not for me, and the two characters in the book love each other from page 1 but don't admit it to themselves or others for almost the entire book???? Also, the story is written in dual POV, which I usually like but includes their thoughts and how they talk to themselves? For example, "Get a grip," which they think internally and written in a weird way that put me off significantly.

If there is anything that would've saved the book, imo, it's smut, but as I said, it's PG-13, so no spicy scenes, sorry.