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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
Jude and Winslow
Such a good read. Lots of laughs and love the banter. Also love a smart sassy woman. Side note- the heartache section…oh my, it is a tissue moment.
Such a good read. Lots of laughs and love the banter. Also love a smart sassy woman. Side note- the heartache section…oh my, it is a tissue moment.
I'm always ready to dive into a Max Monroe book because I know I'm in for some laughs. This book was no different. I was laughing from start to finish. At first I wasn't sure of Jude. He rubbed me the wrong way a bit, but the more I saw him interact with his family the more of my opinion changed. Sophie and Jude's first meeting sure is memorable. I really enjoyed their banter. The way they play off one another. They have a ton of chemistry that will make you fan yourself as you read. I loved some cameos of my favorites of Max Monroe Book World. That made me a little giddy as I read. I would recommend this one. It gives you the perfect combo of heart, humor, and heat.
I read this before I started writing my thoughts down, but just did a little refresh for the Winslow Brothers collection that's releasing.
Jude and Sophie meet in Vegas, but pretending to be someone they aren't and while Jude is pretending to be a stripper (see title). What starts as something casual becomes anything but. Their timeline is a little quick, but still can be fun if you go with it. Full of Max Monroe smut and naughty scout badges.
Jude and Sophie meet in Vegas, but pretending to be someone they aren't and while Jude is pretending to be a stripper (see title). What starts as something casual becomes anything but. Their timeline is a little quick, but still can be fun if you go with it. Full of Max Monroe smut and naughty scout badges.
I bet you will read this in one sitting
Another fun gem to read by Max Monroe. Literally devoured this book. Jude is the Winslow equivalent of Thatch Kelly (maybe minus the crazy pranks). He portrays the perpetual bachelor but after a bet he develops chemistry with what he thought was the soon to be bride in a bachelorette party. (Theres a twin involved). Loved the cinematic references sprinkled throughout the book. Loved the cameos from other characters, including Thatch, Winnie (obviously), & Wes. You will laugh, get all steamed up, possibly shed a tear, and root for Jude and Sophie.
Another fun gem to read by Max Monroe. Literally devoured this book. Jude is the Winslow equivalent of Thatch Kelly (maybe minus the crazy pranks). He portrays the perpetual bachelor but after a bet he develops chemistry with what he thought was the soon to be bride in a bachelorette party. (Theres a twin involved). Loved the cinematic references sprinkled throughout the book. Loved the cameos from other characters, including Thatch, Winnie (obviously), & Wes. You will laugh, get all steamed up, possibly shed a tear, and root for Jude and Sophie.
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Good story. A little rote for Max & Monroe. I want a little more depth from them. But, all in all a fun story.
I don’t enjoy this narrator’s female voice. It would have been better if he stuck to his male role & let Tanya do all the female voice work.
Good story. A little rote for Max & Monroe. I want a little more depth from them. But, all in all a fun story.
I don’t enjoy this narrator’s female voice. It would have been better if he stuck to his male role & let Tanya do all the female voice work.
I picked this off of Hoopla, and realized after a couple pages I had already read it. It appears that I did not record my thoughts though, so I skimmed it to refresh my recollection, and here goes. Jude, who is 36, is like a roided out 19 year old frat bro. He is repulsive. Not because he screws every hot woman who crosses his path. He is honest with all the women about just being in it for the fun and scrupulous about consent, so on that score I say have at it. No, he is constantly proving his manhood -- posing as a stripper to win a bet, gaslighting a woman he later purports to love so he can be free, talking and dressing like one of those men who writes books about how to nail women (think Tucker Max before he saw the error of his ways), calling women "babe" and "sweetheart" and more. He is gross. And Sophie buys into a lot of it which makes me question her too. They are so basic in so many ways that I found them off-putting. Also, they never had a meaningful conversation about anything other than their families and sex. This in not a solid foundation for love.
One note: To the women who make up Max Monroe, I appreciate you did enough research to house the one "artsy vegan" (their words) in Bushwick, but as usual despite having two lifelong New Yorkers as your leads, nothing seemed like it was happening in NYC other than not being able to get a cab in the rain. New Yorkers do not go out for prime rib dinners or think that filet at The Plaza is top of the line dining. (High end steak eating means Gallagher's or Keen's, not conference hotel food.) Honestly, I don't think I know anyone who has eaten at The Plaza other than if they were at a wedding or a conference -- that is true of me, but also pretty universal, I think. Ditto on wanting good Italian and going, not to Lilia or I Sodi or the hundreds of Italian cafes sprinkled across every borough and neighborhood, but to someplace in what used to be Little Italy 40 years ago. No one dresses to go out the way it is described here unless they are Eastern European woman looking for a green card marriage. There are sex clubs, and as represented their locations are pretty secret, you need to know someone in that community to know, but they are not walking distance from Soho unless they are in private brownstones, generally West Village, or Tribeca lofts. There are no industrial buildings around there anymore, so those are out. On the good side, I was pleased to see these people sometimes used the subway -- they rarely do in romance, and nearly everyone without a driver uses the subway sometimes because it is so much faster than a cab.
One more thing: The speech at the end made me want to vomit, and I am someone who loves reading mushy romance. The ending monologue seemed like a parody of romance.
Things that saved this from being 1-star
1. Jude's relationship with his niece.
2. Sophie's relationship with her therapist.
3. I always say I can't stand it when characters I don't like in romance books have good sex, but this book proved me wrong on that. It wasn't realistic sex (15 orgasms in 24 hours?) but the whole illicit public sex scavenger hunt was really fun.
One note: To the women who make up Max Monroe, I appreciate you did enough research to house the one "artsy vegan" (their words) in Bushwick, but as usual despite having two lifelong New Yorkers as your leads, nothing seemed like it was happening in NYC other than not being able to get a cab in the rain. New Yorkers do not go out for prime rib dinners or think that filet at The Plaza is top of the line dining. (High end steak eating means Gallagher's or Keen's, not conference hotel food.) Honestly, I don't think I know anyone who has eaten at The Plaza other than if they were at a wedding or a conference -- that is true of me, but also pretty universal, I think. Ditto on wanting good Italian and going, not to Lilia or I Sodi or the hundreds of Italian cafes sprinkled across every borough and neighborhood, but to someplace in what used to be Little Italy 40 years ago. No one dresses to go out the way it is described here unless they are Eastern European woman looking for a green card marriage. There are sex clubs, and as represented their locations are pretty secret, you need to know someone in that community to know, but they are not walking distance from Soho unless they are in private brownstones, generally West Village, or Tribeca lofts. There are no industrial buildings around there anymore, so those are out. On the good side, I was pleased to see these people sometimes used the subway -- they rarely do in romance, and nearly everyone without a driver uses the subway sometimes because it is so much faster than a cab.
One more thing: The speech at the end made me want to vomit, and I am someone who loves reading mushy romance. The ending monologue seemed like a parody of romance.
Things that saved this from being 1-star
1. Jude's relationship with his niece.
2. Sophie's relationship with her therapist.
3. I always say I can't stand it when characters I don't like in romance books have good sex, but this book proved me wrong on that. It wasn't realistic sex (15 orgasms in 24 hours?) but the whole illicit public sex scavenger hunt was really fun.
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Loved it!
I loved this book! I laughed out loud so many times. You will definitely laugh, cry, get mad but it’s definitely worth it! You will love Jude and Sophie.
I loved this book! I laughed out loud so many times. You will definitely laugh, cry, get mad but it’s definitely worth it! You will love Jude and Sophie.
I am a Max Monroe fan, so I was excited to find this on Kindle Unlimited. There was definitely their usual quality writing, and I liked the characters a lot, but something seemed to be missing a bit.
I loved the "meet cute" (amused to call it that, though, since trading places with your sister at her bachelor party and getting a sexy dance from a guy isn't "cute" exactly, haha!), and especially that it was just funny and not dramatic. Jude was fun, and his swagger amused me. The way that Sophie played him a bit was also a plus.
Things felt like they sort of fell apart around the time that they started to "just have fun" and it became a regular thing. I can't exactly say why, but it just felt like there wasn't much happening to really bond them. There was a lot of lusting happening and their character growth seemed to be sudden and more of an afterthought. The interesting thing is that I really liked that the sexytimes were pretty realistic (aside from maybe the elevator BJ in a Venetian hotel... I would have actually liked some acknowledgement there of the fact there are CAMERAS, even if it was that high-rollers got away with more).
I think I ultimately just wasn't too into the alphahole and submissive-because-looking-at-him-makes-her-drip heroine. There were just so many times that I didn't see Sophie taking charge like I think she was supposed to, where it was like she just gave in because she was so horny all the time. She even would have gone along with an audience, despite not really being into it, which felt like a big imbalance to me.
The first third of this was pretty great, and I didn't want to stop reading. It was the last half that sort of lost me.
I loved the "meet cute" (amused to call it that, though, since trading places with your sister at her bachelor party and getting a sexy dance from a guy isn't "cute" exactly, haha!), and especially that it was just funny and not dramatic. Jude was fun, and his swagger amused me. The way that Sophie played him a bit was also a plus.
Things felt like they sort of fell apart around the time that they started to "just have fun" and it became a regular thing. I can't exactly say why, but it just felt like there wasn't much happening to really bond them. There was a lot of lusting happening and their character growth seemed to be sudden and more of an afterthought. The interesting thing is that I really liked that the sexytimes were pretty realistic (aside from maybe the elevator BJ in a Venetian hotel... I would have actually liked some acknowledgement there of the fact there are CAMERAS, even if it was that high-rollers got away with more).
I think I ultimately just wasn't too into the alphahole and submissive-because-looking-at-him-makes-her-drip heroine. There were just so many times that I didn't see Sophie taking charge like I think she was supposed to, where it was like she just gave in because she was so horny all the time. She even would have gone along with an audience, despite not really being into it, which felt like a big imbalance to me.
The first third of this was pretty great, and I didn't want to stop reading. It was the last half that sort of lost me.
Method: ebook
Rating: 4/5 stars
H rating: 4/5 - Jude
h rating: 4/5 - Sophie
Drama: 3/5
Thoughts: Great read, will continue series!
If you’ve read a lot of Max Monroe books you know what you’re getting. You going to get lots of laughs. Banter. Sibling or friendship relationships. Hot seggy times. Fun atmospheres. This books of course had it all. I loved this book. Loved Jude’s time with his niece. And his banter with his siblings.
I loved how Jude and Sophie met. The bachelorette party was a hoot. What Belle and Sophie did was hilarious. All that happened in Vegas was amazing!! The surprise that Jude pulled off. So unique. Poker. I really enjoyed this book.
I loved how Jude and Sophie met. The bachelorette party was a hoot. What Belle and Sophie did was hilarious. All that happened in Vegas was amazing!! The surprise that Jude pulled off. So unique. Poker. I really enjoyed this book.