Brooke
I’ve come from a privileged life and an even more privileged upbringing. My parents taught me right from wrong and everything in between… except I wanted the gray area. I wanted to live life on the edge with the possibility of falling over. I didn’t care about the consequences because I had no heart…
I left that on the floor of my parents’ bedroom door, shattered.
And never went back to pick up the pieces.
Devon
Family first.
I learned the meaning of the word hate.
I learned that life is a battlefield and I stood frontline.
I learned that praying doesn’t work and God doesn’t listen.
And I learned how to be a man…
All at the receiving end of my father’s fists, my mother’s tears, and my sisters screams.
You can’t run away from your past…
It will always find you, especially when you’re asleep.
Warning: Book contains adult situations.
Sex/language. Mature readers only.
I’ve come from a privileged life and an even more privileged upbringing. My parents taught me right from wrong and everything in between… except I wanted the gray area. I wanted to live life on the edge with the possibility of falling over. I didn’t care about the consequences because I had no heart…
I left that on the floor of my parents’ bedroom door, shattered.
And never went back to pick up the pieces.
Devon
Family first.
I learned the meaning of the word hate.
I learned that life is a battlefield and I stood frontline.
I learned that praying doesn’t work and God doesn’t listen.
And I learned how to be a man…
All at the receiving end of my father’s fists, my mother’s tears, and my sisters screams.
You can’t run away from your past…
It will always find you, especially when you’re asleep.
Warning: Book contains adult situations.
Sex/language. Mature readers only.
WOW! Looking around seeing if anyone can tell that I just
was taken on one helluva ride. I wanted to play with M. Robinson and she just
showed me whose boss.
I will do a full honest disclosure. I never read VIP. I have
it, I haven’t read it. I make this point because Tempting Bad is a spin off of
VIP. I haven’t really #authorstalked M. Robinson either. Whoever is reading
this…yes, YOU… Learn. From. My. Mistakes. Read all her books, her writing style
is so fluid it grips you at just the right time then lets you go at the precise
moment even when you want to punch the characters in the throat or you’re
clutching your heart from the pain. The writing is very deliberate and
calculating proving that M. Robinson is a smart writer and I am now a reader
for life! I will be going back to read all her other books!!
I loved this book and not because of the hot sex you have to
expect from a story like this. I don’t love this book because everyone I
know who is a book nerd like me loves M. Robinson. NO, I love Tempting Bad for the simplicity
of what it is. This is a story of life, the dark side of consequences that many don’t
want to admit can and do happen; a story that defines that perception really is
in the eye of the beholder. Tempting Bad
takes you on a roller coaster of events that proves that fate will always deal
its’ hand no matter what path you choose to take.
Told among dual first person POV, we are brought into the
world that’s born from VIP, and exclusive erotic illusion of wants, thru the
eyes of Brooke. A spoiled brat who has the perfect life in every way until her
world is shattered at a tender age. During the same time we are thrust into the
darkness that encompasses Devon and his never ending pain in life. With six
degrees of separation we read along as each character in Tempting Bad has their
specific place and a connection with the next character, and the best part is
when all these worlds collide and you see the awesome effect each one has on
another. Going back to the hot sex, the scenes in this story are full of
debauchery told with such clarity you can almost touch, smell and see what’s
going on around you. Saying all this, the best feeling for me, is the way Devon
and Brooke are characterized. Having to continue with life when dealt a crappy
hand and finding their way to a place that is truly content, even when they try
their hardest to not care and sabotage themselves at every turn, fate comes and
puts them where they need to be.
M. Robinson, for me, has truly told a good story and at
times I wanted to scream at her because I thought I was going to be taken down
a road I didn’t want to go down, truth be told I would’ve loved every which way
this story could’ve been told, so my point is moot but still. LOL But thankfully we got back on the same page :-) and my world went back
to good.
So all in all what I am trying to say in this long winded
review is that I would recommend Tempting Bad to everyone! I Loved it, can wait
for more and I know you will to!
** I was given an advanced readers copy in exchange for my
honest review and experience.
I was there, but I wasn’t.
I danced around in a sea of emptiness and longing, it moved around me easily, carelessly, harshly.
It was all and it was nothing.
It made me full and it made me empty.
It pleased me and it dismayed me.
I didn’t care. I was there to do a job. To be a VIP. I played my part beautifully, just as I always did. Letting myself get taken away on empty promises of nothing, but somehow seemed like everything.
I danced around in a sea of emptiness and longing, it moved around me easily, carelessly, harshly.
It was all and it was nothing.
It made me full and it made me empty.
It pleased me and it dismayed me.
I didn’t care. I was there to do a job. To be a VIP. I played my part beautifully, just as I always did. Letting myself get taken away on empty promises of nothing, but somehow seemed like everything.
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