Bittersweet Addiction is book two in the Bittersweet duet. We get more of Will and Charlotte after the explosion of Bittersweet Surrender. What happens after you get the one you love? After book one’s ending, don’t we all want more? If you haven’t read that one, start there before this one.
This book is a hard one for me to review because I think you have to bring the first book into consideration when rating it. While book one was told 99% from Charlotte’s POV, this one is both Will and Charlotte and we get to see a whole new side of Will that I didn’t even know existed. It actually didn’t seem to fit his character that I had gotten to know through Charlotte in Surrender, at least for me. Yes, he’s alpha and has strong feelings for Charley, but it just didn’t seem to fit.
As with book one, we still have an abundance of sex between the characters. That’s where Charlotte and Will connect. But there’s more to a relationship than sex, and theirs is one that is a lot more complicated because of Charlotte’s past and also Will’s past relationship he has with his family that leads him to finding comfort in things that could ruin his future. I enjoyed that QB Tyler did not make it all happy and roses in the aftermath. She showed the ugly side of their decisions and really took it there. It was a messy and a very bumpy road, but throughout, you could still feel their love for one another.
I have to say that I overall enjoyed Surrender more than Addiction as a whole. These two are a storm brewing and I know that they love one another, but they are also way too dependent on one another. It really doesn’t get fixed in this one, but it’s actually refreshing to see the darkside of their choices.
I listened to the audio of these books and they were magnificent. Lacy Laurel was especially a standout in her portrayal of Charlotte. She really nailed her emotions and what she was going through. I appreciated that we got more of Alexander Neal in this one and he really gave us Will in all forms. The pretty, the alpha and the ugly. As an audiobook, it was fantastic. As a duet, it was well written, but the characters and their overall arc didn’t always sit right with me and I wanted to see a different growth from the pair, but glad they came full circle and got their HEA.