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Review

Switch off your brain and embrace the (crude-as-all-hell) ridiculousness that is this hilariously entertaining story

If you’re into rude, crude and juvenile humour, this book could be for you. It’s the coming together of two highly sexed, totally filterless people who have a near-obsession over certain parts of each other’s anatomies. Super smutty and slightly ridiculous in its overt vulgarity but with a great romance, I was able to disconnect from real life for a while and enjoy the brainlessness of it all.

OK, so confession time: this is actually my second attempt at reading this book. The first time I tried I just couldn’t get into it, but this time around I must have been feeling particularly immature, because I laughed and laughed, and had a great time with it.

Violet is a young and vibrant woman, she has a tendency to vomit forth whatever thought is in her head, and more often than not, that thought is dirty. Violet’s step-brother, Buck is a professional hockey player, and while out celebrating his team’s win after a game one night she is immediately drawn to his team captain, Alex Waters. After a painful encounter with a hockey player in the past, Violet has made a promise to herself to avoid hockey manwhores – and Alex has one of the worst reputations of all – but there is something about him, and she soon gets caught up in a moment of lust and some pretty intense “mouth fucking”.

We were fucking each other’s mouths with our tongues. This is otherwise referred to as kissing, but mouth fucking sounds way dirtier, so I’m gonna go with that.

She does her best to walk away, but after a night of flirting with fantastic banter, the two of them fall into bed together for some hot and sexy time which blows both of their minds.

I struggle to pop the button on his pants and pull down the zipper. Alex watches my hand disappear inside. It has to look good from his point of view. How can it not? Someone else’s hand in your pants is a winner of a situation.

Violet is happy to write it off a as an uncharacteristic one night stand, but Alex seems to be hooked and sets about pursuing her with constant messages, flowers, and quirky gifts, and as hard as she tries, she can’t resist him. And she soon learns that there’s so much more to the alleged manwhore than she could have ever imagined. Sexually, the two of them are on fire, but Alex is also sweet, charming and incredibly down-to-earth and his reputation is not all as it seems.

“Are you in your jammies?” His voice is so low it’s almost a rumble.
“Pardon?”
“Sorry, nothing. I didn’t mean to ask that. It just came out. I’m sorry.”
And here I thought I was the awkward one. Maybe Alex is drunk dialing me. I go with it, lowering my voice to what I hope is a sultry whisper. “Do you want to know what I’m wearing?”
“Yes. No. Is this a trick question? Only if you won’t hang up on me for saying yes, otherwise no.”
He’s cute, even for a manwhore.

I really enjoyed Violet and Alex together. They are compatible in so many ways – of course sexually (with sizzling chemistry), but they are also just as ridiculous as each other and they have a lot of fun together. Their relationship progresses naturally and realistically, and I love that we get to see so much time with them together and happy as they fall in love.

In some ways their relationship seems so easy, but it’s complicated by external factors -, the ever-present press and puck-bunnies who constantly fawn all over Alex, overly intrusive family members, seemingly disapproving family members, the fact that they are trying to keep it a secret from Alex’s teammates (Violet’s step-brother included), and Alex’s unfavourable reputation.

The story is written mostly from Violet’s POV, with some chapters from Alex’s perspective, and it gives us a great picture of how they are feeling and where they are both at – especially when Alex really starts to struggle with the pressures of juggling his professional responsibilities with his increasingly meaningful personal life. It’s not all rainbows and orgasms, and Violet and Alex have to work for the HEA, but it’s all handled well, and I was really happy with how it all ended up.

Like I said, the humour in this book is mostly sexual in nature and incredibly juvenile, and it’s pretty much constant. If terms like ‘beaver’, ‘mouth fucking’ and ‘love pillows’ has you tittering like a teenage boy, and the vision of a penis with its very own super-hero cape makes you snort with laughter, then you’ll probably enjoy this book. If not, then you will probably find the whole thing vulgar and silly. For me, it was wholly dependent upon my mood (and the fact that the audiobook narration is stellar!), and it looks like I picked this one up at just the right time and I was able to appreciate it for what it was and enjoy the ridiculous ride.

I’m looking forward to reading the next book in the series – Buck’s story.

4 stars.

 

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