Audiobook September 2019: Joel Leslie ROCKS THE HELL out of this book!! 5+++
I still want to slap Caspian upside the head (be prepared NOT to like him)I still ADORE Arden (be prepared to laugh out loud at Arden’s hilarious inner and outer monologues), and I still want to hug Ellory! I waited on this audiobook until I could binge on the trilogy!!!
Original ebook review April 2017:
I LOVED THIS BOOK!
And now comes the dreadful wait for the next book. I’m seriously addicted to Alexis Hall and to the characters he created in this glorious book of his.
Here we meet the very likable and self-deprecating, 20 year old Arden, and the icily beautiful, self-made billionaire, Caspian Hart. I have to say, that the plot line is of that one book at everyone loves to hate about the recent college grad and the troubled millionaire who doesn’t like to be touched and is very domineering. Yes, that one that was made into a movie. As Hall states on his website, he was doing an LGBTQ+ take on the billionaire romance trope. And his take is soooo much better!!!!
Let me repeat, I LOVED THIS BOOK. Arden was delightfully endearing and lovable. His intelligence combined with naïveté and openness captured me. I found Caspian less approachable and much more of an enigma–which makes sense since the book is written from Arden’s POV. The two contrive to have an arrangement in which they’re more than casual lovers, but less than boyfriends. Arden wants more. Caspian won’t give more.
I won’t provide any spoilers, but I’ll just say that the two do come to a sort of HFN–enough of a “sort-of” to make you die to read the next novel. Because I’m really hoping that’s where the kinky kicks in.