I made my way to the dining room and wondered if I was going to regret my decision to eat dinner with my new wife, and whether I would regret even more allowing her to choose the meal. This book will never be finished. The writing is not good, the premise, story, or characters- it just wasn’t good. Alana is a good person, I like at least that about her. But I’m unable to fall into that because, even if it’s not from Alana’s perspective, the author is truly overdoing it with trying to depict Alana like “she’s not other girls” through Alejandro’s perspective. It ruins it. Like, we don’t need comparison for her to be a wonderful person that Alejandro didn’t expect. But alas, instead of showing us through beautiful language, plot and writing, that author finds the basic-est way to “prove” that Alana isn’t… Starts with an arranged marriage taking place. I kind of feel like I stepped into the middle of this book 😬… but it’s not some big mystery, which makes it easy to follow. Nutshell: She hates him but is hot for him / he hates her but is hot for her .. meets forced proximity of arranged marriage. And as I uncover the secrets of our pasts, I discover that monsters are not always what they seem. Sometimes, the real monsters look like ordinary men. This book was hard to put down, I was totally engaged the whole time AND that ending has me asking all sorts of questions !!!!

I decided to follow my instinct and read it anyway…and honestly a lot of the components that other readers complained about happened to be the bits I absolutely loved.

Two bottles of ketchup. A box of English breakfast tea. Four bags of gummy worms. Two picture frames. Two candles. Two bottles of bubble bath and an anti-allergen pillow.’ Sadie Kincaid burst onto the romance novelist scene like a force of nature. Successfully breaking into the romance genre with the first book is a huge accomplishment and in two short years Ms. Kincaid has established herself as a romance writer with hot, steamy, sexy stories to be read.

I’m still swooning over Alejandro Montoya, he is going to steal your hearts and live in your memories as one of the best book boyfriends ever!!!!! Alejandro Montoya is the type of “boy” my mama always warned me to stay away from! The thing is ... he’s not just another “boy.” He is SEXY! He is RUTHLESS! He is ALL MAN! This book loves to tells us what’s happening but refuses to show us! No descriptive language, no painting of a scene, therefore, you’ll never get embedded into the book. It’s like listening to a boring person talk about something that happened to them. “Yeah, I hear ya, it sounds like it would be a great time, I’ll just have to take your word for it I guess.” Is my response to everything Alana or Alejandro “feels”. The Ryan Rule series has a Reverse Harem (RH) theme. Typically the RH story has a group of guys and only one girl who all have platonic relationships to start and during the story one guy will emerge as the love interest and the story will progress romantically. These stories are “Happily Ever After (HEA). In this era, HEA no longer means marriage and babies, but rather now it means a happy ending or it can be Happy For Now (HFN).As they spend time together will they get past the hot AF crazy sexual tension and the amazing chemistry they have? “He pushed his tongue inside, making sure that I could taste myself on him. For some reason, that only made me want to even more.” I was pretty much hooked from the start and couldn't read fast enough to find out what happens next.

How frugal of this Manhattan city girl! The ketchup gets me…lol, as if you don’t have a whole cook. But alas… I saw a completely different side to him when she was around, and it was a side of him I could learn to like. He’s what? A big, bad mafia king refined to play the part of a wealthy business man. He sounds like neither. He sounds like a middle-aged woman’s creation of such. His character’s voice and mannerisms sound like the author, not his proposed character. I swallowed as they drew nearer. What if she hated me? What if she was one of those mothers who never thought anyone was good enough for her son? Why the hell did I even care? Jessie has one thing she wants most in life and, finally, she is that close to getting it. Now the Ryan brothers are stopping her from her dream. But Jessie is a tornado, unstoppable, and she’s going to wreak destruction on the Ryans. She has secrets and a past. She can be their undoing or she could be their redemption.It’s so convenient and weird to have both of their mothers unknowing of their sham of a marriage. Like…why are these two women portrayed as these “feeble” things that can’t understand business marriages? If 25 year Alana can understand it, then at least one of those grown ass women could as well. And if not even one of those grown women could understand it, then maybe the premise really makes no type of sense. This is sold as hate to love. Problem: There’s no actual hate. There’s no reason to dislike each other. Neither know a thing about the other. While they both internal dialogue how much they dislike the other, there’s 1) no reasoning 2) their actions don’t match. They’re civil, respectful, even kind to each other all while internally reminding how much they dislike each other’s sexy asses or shouldn’t (FFS why?) actually give realness to the marriage. Sadie has delivered dark mafia romance writing at its best. Hot alpha A hole, strong, beautiful FMC and a plot that grips you, Alana and Alejandro are everything. This forced arranged marriage should leave her devoid of any feelings of love or lust towards Alejandro. She’s confused when he sets her skin on fire with just his touch. She shouldn’t be feeling this way. She should hate him. Her body is thinking otherwise. Alana agreed to marry Alejandro to help her father out. she didn't like Alejandro one bit but as time goes on he is not what she believes he is.