Take Me

To be fair, this book never promised to be rocket science; it just promised to be the next best thing to instant gratification. ‘Take Me' is a quick and dirty (haha) book with a guaranteed HEA/HFN (Happily Ever After/Happy For Now, if like me you had to Google that).

Hope Stiles is an art student who needed to quickly raise some cash. Deacon Vick is a famous sculptor and famously reclusive. He needed a model and she needed to pay tuition. They are both attractive and within minutes of meeting each other, the situation escalated to something long ending up somewhere dark.

There are seven chapters and a sexy situation in each. If you enjoy sexual tension and/or a build up, then there's not much of that here. The deep dark secrets only came out towards the end of the book and it doesn't create that much of a ripple to knock the HEA/HFN off-course. There was one of those caveman-staking-territory moment, but because it's a short book, it doesn't take up a lot of time. A lot of the focus is on the sexy times.

I was unaware that this sub-genre (?) of erotica is out there and can appreciate that it takes a lot of skill to squeeze some character development between the steamy parts. I'm not completely sold on this particular title, especially since just coming off a much better erotic romance. But it's a quickie between heavier books, so I can't really complain.

ARC courtesy of NetGalley and HARLEQUIN - Carina Press.