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Unfortunately, but not unsurprisingly, the book didn’t work for me and it only has a little to do with my dislike of the following tropes:
-Heroine remains celibate during separation
-Heroine witnesses hero having sex with OW
-Hero is heroine’s one and only ever sexual partner
-Hero claims to have loved and thought of heroine their whole separation, but he still dipped his wick in all kinds of wax

No, I’m not a fan of any of that, but I had bigger issues with the characters and plot presentation.

For starters, I wanted to like the hero more and I think if I had some of his POV that would’ve been possible. Instead, all I got is the heroine’s constant doubting and whining. The hero claims he suffered during their separation(s), but I never got to see it. What good is his pain if I don’t get to experience it? He made some grand gestures and pleaded with the heroine about how scared he was something bad had happened to her and voila, problem solved.

Secondly, the heroine goes from “I hate him” to openly telling him she loves him in less than 24 hours. Wow, that must be some magical D for her to be so forgiving. Just because he was finally willing to expose their relationship to the public doesn’t mean she should go straight to the declarations of love. I’d like to think any logical real human being would take more time than that, so it’s unfortunate for the heroine to be so… well, dumb.

Finally, they never really acknowledge the elephant in the room: seeing the H cervix-tapping OW. Ashlyn makes some passive aggressive comments about Emilia, the OW she saw Dante having sex with, then Dante says a couple times how there were no emotions involved and it was a convenient stress reliever blah blah blah. Well, I have about 100 problems with that because it makes no sense. Dante and Emilia were so stressed out at a work engagement that they just had to go bang in a closet? That’s a mighty big risk to take by sleeping with your brother’s fiancé in a public location where anyone could and did walk in on them. What if it hadn’t been Ashlyn to walk in? Now Emilia’s fake relationship with Luca is out and that’s a publicity nightmare for everyone. I don’t know about most people, but when I’m high-strung and stressed out because of work, I like to maybe scream into a pillow, or take a walk and buy some chocolate. I certainly don’t sleep with people because it’s so “convenient”. The scene was too contrived. There are a million more realistic ways for the characters to be reacquainted under awkward circumstances AND make readers angry/uncomfortable. The cherry on top of this whole debacle is that apparently the OW and hero’s brother are the couple in the next book and apparently, Dante never bothered to tell Luca he was sleeping with Emilia. Fake engagement or not, that’s such a skeezy thing to do.

After finishing this book and reading all about the hero’s never-ending love for the heroine all I could think was, would Dante have ever reached out to Ashlyn had she not walked in on him banging his brother’s fiancé?


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The Sweet Taste of Sin The Fontaines Book 1 edition by Ember Casey Contemporary Romance eBooks Reviews

Ember Casey does it again! Casey is a master at creating intense, complicated characters with rich back stories that not only draw you in, but keep you interested until the very end. Dante and Ashlyn's story is no exception!

For years, Ashlyn actively tried to keep her distance (physically and metaphorically) from Dante, yet he was never too far from the forefront of her thoughts. Fate intervenes to bring them together again in a twisted, hot sequence of events that will have you rooting for them to overcome their demons.

As always, I found myself extremely disappointed when the end actually came! Don't miss this red hot read!
This is a great beginning of the series. Ashlyn had tried film school to do something to be part of her late parents to be a part of them. But she fell in love with Dante, he kept his family fame and their relationship separate and she didn't think he cared, so she ran. There years later and with her bakery doing well her friend Jack comes to her a cake for a !love premiere. The bad part Dante is the script writer.
I read it cover to e-cover at one sitting. It was so intense I didn't even notice errors, which I most always do. It was so extreme at times I felt like I'd done all the heavy lifting and I was exhausted. The characters and situations were were bigger than life. I'll read more.
SPOILERS

The story starts off where the heroine catches the hero having sex with another woman. That is so romantic!!! Barf. Really?

I persevered, and later we find out that the heroine broke it off with the Hollywood wunderkind because he wanted to take a model as a fake date to a movie premiere, and she has to understand as that's how the business is run. Yuck and what a stupid way to create drama.

No thank you.
I agree with most of what 'Pointedlyblount' has to say and won't go over most of that stuff again. I really should have put the book down as a dnf when she found him in the closet with his brother's fiance. I mean really! In what world is it okay to do that to the brother you love?! There is just no way to spin that into him being a hero after that. Not even if we were given his point of view! How do you look your brother/brother-in-law/sister-in-law in the eye ever again?! Does it ever come out? Or is his brother just left not knowing that the woman he loves and his brother betrayed him?!

I am honestly surprised at how many people who think these two characters rate hero and heroine status and such good reviews. There was no growth to either character. Their whole relationship/family felt like a train wreck waiting to happen. And I won't continue with this series to see how many idiots get caught up in it! My time is too important to spend on this kind of mess.
Seemed to really drag out the story with just back and forth plot. They get together, break up, get back together, break up and repeat! Noticed that I was skipping paragraphs and just skim reading by 60%.
Did not like the heroine at all. She seemed very weak! Who has unprotected sex after seeing the " love of her life" having sex in a closet? Yuck!
Unfortunately, but not unsurprisingly, the book didn’t work for me and it only has a little to do with my dislike of the following tropes
-Heroine remains celibate during separation
-Heroine witnesses hero having sex with OW
-Hero is heroine’s one and only ever sexual partner
-Hero claims to have loved and thought of heroine their whole separation, but he still dipped his wick in all kinds of wax

No, I’m not a fan of any of that, but I had bigger issues with the characters and plot presentation.

For starters, I wanted to like the hero more and I think if I had some of his POV that would’ve been possible. Instead, all I got is the heroine’s constant doubting and whining. The hero claims he suffered during their separation(s), but I never got to see it. What good is his pain if I don’t get to experience it? He made some grand gestures and pleaded with the heroine about how scared he was something bad had happened to her and voila, problem solved.

Secondly, the heroine goes from “I hate him” to openly telling him she loves him in less than 24 hours. Wow, that must be some magical D for her to be so forgiving. Just because he was finally willing to expose their relationship to the public doesn’t mean she should go straight to the declarations of love. I’d like to think any logical real human being would take more time than that, so it’s unfortunate for the heroine to be so… well, dumb.

Finally, they never really acknowledge the elephant in the room seeing the H cervix-tapping OW. Ashlyn makes some passive aggressive comments about Emilia, the OW she saw Dante having sex with, then Dante says a couple times how there were no emotions involved and it was a convenient stress reliever blah blah blah. Well, I have about 100 problems with that because it makes no sense. Dante and Emilia were so stressed out at a work engagement that they just had to go bang in a closet? That’s a mighty big risk to take by sleeping with your brother’s fiancé in a public location where anyone could and did walk in on them. What if it hadn’t been Ashlyn to walk in? Now Emilia’s fake relationship with Luca is out and that’s a publicity nightmare for everyone. I don’t know about most people, but when I’m high-strung and stressed out because of work, I like to maybe scream into a pillow, or take a walk and buy some chocolate. I certainly don’t sleep with people because it’s so “convenient”. The scene was too contrived. There are a million more realistic ways for the characters to be reacquainted under awkward circumstances AND make readers angry/uncomfortable. The cherry on top of this whole debacle is that apparently the OW and hero’s brother are the couple in the next book and apparently, Dante never bothered to tell Luca he was sleeping with Emilia. Fake engagement or not, that’s such a skeezy thing to do.

After finishing this book and reading all about the hero’s never-ending love for the heroine all I could think was, would Dante have ever reached out to Ashlyn had she not walked in on him banging his brother’s fiancé?