Little does she know, that’s not the only pipe I’ll be laying…īut the deal was too sweet to walk away from. The virginal archer is supposed to babysit my ass while I learn to take my place in Royal Pipelines, my family’s oil company. Now my ball-busting father is sentencing me to six months of celibacy, sobriety, and morbid boredom under the roof of Boston’s nerdiest girl alive, Sailor Brennan. Like Stonehenge, Police Academy 2, and morning glory clouds. It was just one of those unexplainable things. I didn’t mean to star in a sex tape, okay? Had Hunter been a little less Hunter, I could definitely see myself rating this as four stars, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. Ultimately, I liked this a LOT better than Angry God – it’s still kind of extreme, but not to the same level. It’s a steamy book, whether it’s Hunter’s dirty promises, heavy flirting, or actual intimate scenes, so that remains a constant presence throughout. I did like Sailor, though I wish she’d put up a little more resistance to him. He’s the kind of hero who will take some time to win you over, and though I liked him more than I expected to at the beginning (as in: not at ALL), I was never truly rooting for him. I really did love the dialogue and some of the playful moments between the two I just wish there was a more obvious emotional connection there and that Hunter wasn’t quite so… Hunter. It’s an enemies to lovers romance that actually does remain pretty light – definitely lighter than some of the other books Shen has been writing recently. He’s to remain celibate and sober for six months while being put under the guardianship of Sailor, an archer whose sole focus is her sport and has little time to put up with the unrepentantly sexual playboy. But after unintentionally making an outlandishly over the top sex tape, his father puts his money on lockdown. Essentially, Hunter is a playboy to the extreme (as if that opening chapter left any doubt), who comes from a mega-wealthy family and luxuriates in his lazy lifestyle.

I won’t share many details about the plot – it’s all spelled right out in the blurb. But I never truly came to like Hunter, and that caused a disconnect from emotionally attaching to the love story. It gets significantly better as the story goes on – Hunter becomes a MUCH better “hero” (though he’s definitely still a pretty over the top character), there’s a lightness to the banter and dialogue between our couple, and I loved the fierceness of our heroine.

I was so ready to just set this one aside and move on, but I didn’t want to abandon it right away (I did preorder this baby, after all). That first introduction to Hunter? I can’t even describe it. She is undeniably talented, with a writing style that just immerses you into the story – sometimes when you don’t want to be. Where do I even start? I have such a complicated relationship with L.J.

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