DOWN & DIRTY QUICKIE REVIEW!
She is a spinster wallflower with a secret lockpick hobby, and he’s plotting to betray her for revenge.
Upper class heroine + commoner hero = CLASS! DIVIDE!
She’s Gonna Marry That Boy [not-the-hero] Some Day
Hey I Just Met You, And This Is Crazy, But Imma Sabotage Your Wedding, Sorry Baby
“Please, Mr Hot Stranger! Teach me how to seduce my fiance!”
Regency Not In A Ballroom
What part made you fangirl squeal:
That heart-bleedingingly brutal internal conflict climax when our OTP hurt each other with words. I was obliterated with pain and I loved it and hi I’m apparently a masochist.
When cotton candy & childhood neglect were turned into the most romantic, ovary-’splodey thing I ever read in my got-dang life!
WHEN OUR GAL DONE PICKED AN UNPICKABLE LOCK! The amount of female competency porn in this book is life giving.
When Devil is storytelling about a god who only sees the past & the future, cause it 100% reflected our hero! Boy is obsessed with future revenge while being tormented by past tragedies. Good writing is orgasmic!
[oh! speaking of orgasmic!] When our smuggler hero slipped into his Cockney accent and dropped the F bomb, I dropped my panties!
Favorite characterS? Oh that’s easy. Felicity and Devil, because I ain’t out here trying to pick between perfection.
Our heroine is relatably compelling in her longing for acceptance. She rocks competency, independence, AND sasstacular wit. She’s got “dimples on her round belly” and even rescues the distressed hero! SHE IS GOALS!
Our hero is tormented by emotastic sads rooted in parental abuse and neglect. His revenge boner for his bro is all consuming. He is alpha-vulnerable without crossing into Dickhole territory. HE IS SECRETLY A FLUFF MUFFIN!
GET YO BLOOMERS BRACED, MY PEEPS!
Our boy gets happy-pants over Felicity whispering “That’s it, baby” to her unpickable lock. His dirty mind + her competency + his awe over her skill = CATNIP!
So! Much! GOOD SEX DIALOGUE! It’s emotionally sexy, and I’m here for Characters Talking During Pound Town.
That oral fun-time on the whispering bench? Wowza! This book makes outdoor sex sexy.
Felicity,18% into the book: When you are ignored by the stars, you wonder if you might ever burn bright.
Devil, 75% into the book: I wish to make you burn until you've made the stars jealous of your heat.
‘She wasn’t a simpleton. She was fascinating. Smart-mouthed and curious and more comfortable in the darkness than he would have imagined. And with a smile that made a man pay attention. It was a pity he’d have to ruin her.’
Devil: The roof was an excellent choice.
Devil: Because when you scream your pleasure to the night, you can be as loud as you like.
‘It should be illegal for a woman like Felicity Faircloth to say the word passion. It conjured images of wide expanses of skin and beautiful, mahogany locks across white sheets. It made a man wonder how she would arch her back to his touch, how she might ask for it. How she might direct it. How her hand would feel on his, moving his fingers to the precise location she wanted them. How her fingers would feel against his scalp as she moved his mouth to the precise location she wanted it. Thank God they were standing fifteen feet from a hold full of ice.’
Devil: Lockpicking isn't the kind of skill one expects a woman to have.
Felicity: It's exactly the kind of skill we should have. Our whole world is built by men. For them. And we're simply here for decoration, brought in at at end of everything important. Well, I grow tired of ends. Locks are beginnings.
Admittedly there was a moment during one sex scene that just puzzled the fuck out of me. Felicity is sitting on top of an ice block, Devil’s smooching on her neck, then he slides down to her boobs while he simultaneously “tucked his hard length against her," &...huh?! I've never been more confused over sex logistics in my life!
But the enthusiastic dry humping made up for that, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .
Visually Depict Yo Book Feels:
If it were possible to give a book a standing ovation, I’d be on my feet clapping! This puppy is the literal definition of Good Book Noise™. It was an excellently paced romantic story about 2 wonderful human beings who are flawed in such compelling ways.
From an entire cast of soul-snatching characters to the fact that the story is 98% internally driven with 2% external conflict about a bad guy who [likely] isn’t bad; this book does it all. It’s emotional and moving and so goddamn good it makes you proud to be a romance reader!
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