A delicious new heart-pounding romantic adventure from USA Today bestseller Amanda Bouchet!

Captain Tess Bailey and her crew of Robin Hood-like thieves are desperate and on the run. Pursued by a vicious military general who wants them dead or alive, Tess has to decide if she can trust Shade Ganavan, a tall, dark and arrogant stranger with ambiguous motivations.

Shade Ganavan had oodles of arrogance, oodles of charm, and oodles of something that made me want to kick him in the nuts.

What Tess and Shade don’t know about each other might get them killed…unless they can set aside their differences and learn to trust each other—while ignoring their off-the-charts chemistry.

 

 

 

 

 

*I received a free copy from the publisher via Netgalley and chose to leave a voluntary review. Thank you!*

 

 1 ½ ★----  DNFed at 47%

 

 

When I saw this and got approved for it on Netgalley I was super excited. Even when I started reading, it really started out good……….

But sadly after about 12% in, it went downhill, and when I say downhill I mean a steeeeeppppp hill.  Pretty much when she meets the main love interest, it goes downhill. Tess just becomes sooo dumb and oh so weak in the knees and pretty much just lusts after him all this time. 

You would think all that is bad enough but that is not all, the story is completely taken over by the romance….. Shane our main guy seems more douche than alpha hero and sometimes felt forced to be macho funny. The same for Tess.. She also felt forced at times and there is  not much to her, very blah and two dimensional and flat. The only thing I enjoyed about her was her friendship with her crew.

A lot of the story felt like a filler, and most of it didn’t even make sense really, people disappear and reappear for no reason, other parts of the story are thrown in and make no sense whatsoever.

And yes I only read 47% of the book and then cheated and read the last few chapters, well everything I thought I figured out at 20 some percent was right, it was very predictable and again some things didn’t even make sense. Not because I didn’t read it all, no but because it didn’t fit into the main story arc.

Another thing for me personally was, the switching of POV. I love multiple povs in a book, what I don’t love is when they alternate between first and third person. Either it should be all in first person or all in third person, but that is just my personal preference.

Overall, I really wanted to like this book, I really did but I just couldn’t there are just way too many things that annoyed me that I couldn’t even really finish the book.

I hope that other people enjoy it more and can overlook some of the things.

I rate it 1 ½ ★

 

 

 

 

 

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I remember my brother reading this book when he was in middle school but I never got to read it when I was younger. I finally got the chance to this year and I am so happy I did! This book describes a young orphaned boy on a journey to find his father and husband to his widowed mother. The book follows his quest and introduces us to the people he meets along the way, who become somewhat like family to him. This book would be great for 6-8th grades and the lexile level for this book is 950L. For an activity, I think it would be fun to look deeper into the characters by having students relate important quotes in the book to the character who said this. You could use sticky notes to write the quote and page number and discuss as a class which character the quote is said by or who it describes. 

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A BR with Momo??  Hell yes!!  We were pretty pumped about this one…but yes…we were the guinea pigs here so bear with us.

Her review is pretty spot on…so be sure to check it out  here.

And I am totally with her that this kind of book is a guilty pleasure of mine.  It seems we have heard it time and time again, and yet…I was pleasantly surprised.  The attraction between these two…the sweetness…the patience…I found myself totally wrapped up in them…
 

Then throw in some of the best kissing scenes I have read and some hot sex between these two…

We get both POV’s here which I love.  We see how each of them changes and how they view this relationship.  How this “arrangement” becomes more.

So sounds pretty amazing right…well Momo got a bit ahead of me…she posted her feelings…I felt the frustration building…my mind went crazy…no it can’t be it can’t…will I be throwing things???

Well…I never used this gif but dammit Whitley Gray…you fucked this book up badly!! I hated what happened here.  There is NO CHEATING…let me make this clear.  But when an author pulls a reader into believing there could be…NO NO NO NO NO!!! I was a mess and left questioning my beautiful boys, and I do not like that at all!!! I wanted to just pull my hair out!!!

The first 78% of this book is wonderful and a real surprise of a read...and yes Momo and I may just have to write our own ending….with more lovin…

So many missed opportunities and honestly just teasing the reader in so many ways…

Pineapple Flavored Body Paint???  FFS…this is the third book I have read with a painter in which no paint is used on the body???  What is up with this? And why tease us??  *pouts*

 

A pool table??

(Thanks for finding these Momo)

And a shower scene??? I mean come on…don’t get me wrong the scenes we did get were good…but throw us girls a wet bone, would ya??

 

Yeah…I kinda just cracked myself up there.

So yeah…that ending could have been just amazing…just a beautiful expression of love between these two…them coming to terms with their own personal issues and I would have easily given this 4.5 stars.  Such a shame.

Momo, honey, it was a pleasure throwing panties and pulling hair with you!  Happy to do this again, anytime!

 

A BR with Momo??  Hell yes!!  We were pretty pumped about this one…but yes…we were the guinea pigs here so bear with us.

Her review is pretty spot on…so be sure to check it out  here.

And I am totally with her that this kind of book is a guilty pleasure of mine.  It seems we have heard it time and time again, and yet…I was pleasantly surprised.  The attraction between these two…the sweetness…the patience…I found myself totally wrapped up in them…
 

Then throw in some of the best kissing scenes I have read and some hot sex between these two…

We get both POV’s here which I love.  We see how each of them changes and how they view this relationship.  How this “arrangement” becomes more.

So sounds pretty amazing right…well Momo got a bit ahead of me…she posted her feelings…I felt the frustration building…my mind went crazy…no it can’t be it can’t…will I be throwing things???

Well…I never used this gif but dammit Whitley Gray…you fucked this book up badly!! I hated what happened here.  There is NO CHEATING…let me make this clear.  But when an author pulls a reader into believing there could be…NO NO NO NO NO!!! I was a mess and left questioning my beautiful boys, and I do not like that at all!!! I wanted to just pull my hair out!!!

The first 78% of this book is wonderful and a real surprise of a read...and yes Momo and I may just have to write our own ending….with more lovin…

So many missed opportunities and honestly just teasing the reader in so many ways…

Pineapple Flavored Body Paint???  FFS…this is the third book I have read with a painter in which no paint is used on the body???  What is up with this? And why tease us??  *pouts*

 

A pool table??

(Thanks for finding these Momo)

And a shower scene??? I mean come on…don’t get me wrong the scenes we did get were good…but throw us girls a wet bone, would ya??

 

Yeah…I kinda just cracked myself up there.

So yeah…that ending could have been just amazing…just a beautiful expression of love between these two…them coming to terms with their own personal issues and I would have easily given this 4.5 stars.  Such a shame.

Momo, honey, it was a pleasure throwing panties and pulling hair with you!  Happy to do this again, anytime!