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A review by madjy2max
The Bet by Max Monroe
3.0
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.