I’m gonna have to DNF this one at 85%. I am so bored by this book - I can’t keep going. The FMC in this was so very bland and one dimensional. A 25 year old red headed Irish virgin named Katie. I hoped for more from her, she was an Olympic gold medalist and sharp shooting instructor for the NYPD but my god she was weak and totally naive. The MMC was even worse, this guy had a rampant sex addiction, alcohol addiction and untreated ptsd from a sexual assault or gang rape. No trigger warnings on this one either. This dude had no business trying to start a relationship with anyone, he needed therapy, like yesterday. And with these heavy heavy topics at hand this book was mostly horny inner monologues of both characters. If your panties are that wet all the time, I’d suggest a visit to the doctor and a prescription for canestan.
The only thing these two have in their future is co-dependency. Why was the first instinct of this woman, after he confides in her about his sexual assault, to prove he’s not dirty by having unprotected shower sex with him? If that doesn’t spell co-dependency I don’t know what does. Putting your own health at risk, having sex with a sex addict who’s JUST started recovery for his alcoholism is a bad life choice in every way.
This book was badly done all around. This series may have aged itself. I think it’s from 2017, but it has not weathered the last five years well. Yet with all those problems it was boring back and forth obsessing in each character’s head. We were either hearing about their inner horny angst or reading descriptive sex scenes. Nothing else happened in this. Nothing.