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Books 9&10/50 of my 2024 Reading Challenge …
Does It Hurt? - 5/5
This was my first 5 star read of 2024. As mentioned in my previous entry, it’s by the same author who wrote Haunting and Hunting Adeline, the second of which I haven’t read yet .. because I’m still not over the mental mind fuck of Haunting Adeline. Does It Hurt? Starts off with Sawyer Bennett running from someone in an airport that recognizes her. At this point we don’t know why she’s running. She changes her flight from Indonesia to Australia. We learn that she sleeps with men and then steals their identities. She meets an old man named Simon at a bus stop who gives her a tattoo on her thigh that says Fuck You. She then meets Enzo Vitale in a bar and they end up leaving together and having a magical time under a waterfall and he takes her home, and against her better judgement, she takes photos of his ID and social security number and ultimately steals his identity as well. When he figures it out he is less than thrilled. Fast forward and he takes her out on a boat for payback, and they end up in a storm and ship wrecking onto an island with a creepy ass lighthouse. They meet the lighthouse keeper Sylvester, and he tells them all these ghost stories and claims that the chains they are hearing at night dragging the floors (after he locks them in their room) are ghosts. I won’t spoil the rest of the book, but it gets so good and the plot twist at the end!!!! Chef’s kiss … 5 stars. Lot’s of spice!
Praise - 3-4/5
Don’t read this book if you aren’t into like BDSM and the whole Dom/Sub thing. Charlie and her ex boyfriend Beau break up and she wants her deposit back on their apartment, his dad had to co-sign for it so the apartment people sent him the deposit and Beau tells Charlie if she wants it to go get it from his dad. She’s never met his dad. She pulls up to his dads house, in the rich rich part of town and he’s out of the office at the moment. So she waits around for him. When he finally gets there, he thinks that she is one of the girls his friend sends over, and he immediately tells her to kneel, and she does .. not knowing what the hell he is talking about, or who she is. Emerson is a 40 yr old rich man. He and his friends started a service to help people find like minded people in the kink world, and they are opening up a private members only club, the Salicious Players’ Club. After meeting Charlie, and embarrassing himself, he figures out where she is currently working, the skating rink, and goes there to offer her a job. His secretary. Charlie still doesn’t know about the club or who he really is, other than Beau’s dad. As the book carries on, Charlie figures out what his business is and she becomes curious about everything and wants to learn and figure out who she is as a 21 year old woman. Emerson and Charlie have to figure out how to navigate things and how to hide everything from Beau, who refuses to speak to his father because he thinks the club is disgusting. This book was a good, quick, easy read. I wouldn’t say it was the best book in the world, but it wasn’t the worst, and the spice was just right!
I’m not sure what I’ll read next. I read both of these books in like 3-4 days.
disclaimer
If there are a bunch of mistakes in this, and it seems short and sweet, it’s because I have the cutest little helper trying to help me type this.
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