NEW REVIEW -Tempted: A Stepbrother Romance Novel by J.L. Ostle

Tempted by J.L. Ostle
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

☆ 3 stars! ☆

Tempted: A Stepbrother Romance
By: J.L. Ostle

This story had so much potential! I was so excited when I first read the synopsis because I really enjoy a good stepbrother/forbidden romance. It was like that moment when you are going through book after book after book and just saying... "hmmm, that sounds interesting, but not my mood at present so I'll just save it for later so I don't forget its there" (btw, I have probably no joke 30 books like this just sitting as samples on my kindle for when the mood strikes me to read them). Then I saw this one and was like "YES, That's the ticket!" I'm rambling again... we've talked about this brain!
ANYWAYS....
BACK to the book...
So Kacey, our heroine, has a mother who is relocating for work and she is sent to go live with her father for the her senior year of highschool. She reconnects with her father and turns out to really like her stepmother and life seems to be Aces. Enter Aiden... Highschool bicycle (given every girl a nice long ride 'eyebrow waggles'), teenage bad boy, all around Hottie McHottstuff, and unfortunately Kacey's new stepbrother.
Sparks fly upon their first meeting and continue through the book as they navigate through their mutual lustyness for each other. They both are attracted to one another, however, the way that Aiden decides to deal with this attraction is to be a real DICKHEAD! He knows it is wrong to feel this way about his new stepsister and instead of just being a normal person and resisting temptation by using normal impulse control, he decides to start rumors about her sexlife and bully her.
I have to hand it to Kacey though, she didn't just take that s**t laying down! She gave as good as she got. (view spoiler)[ Even when it came to Summer the Queen Bitch of the school (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]
So, good premise and normally like spot on directly in my wheel house of favorite books!
What's the problem, you say!? Why only 3 stars, you ask!?
WELL, See our hero her COULD NOT KEEP HIS DICK IN HIS PANTS!!! I was like "Dude! Did you have some bad Sex Education in school where you think that if you don't stick it in something once every 24 hours it will shrivel and fall off?? Cuz that's not what happens...
I think he had sex or got a Bj at least 6 times in this book and none of those included the heroine. Now, while I would not classify this as cheating per say because they were not a couple at all through this book, he was clearly enthralled with her. Call me old fashion, but I like it when the hero does not try to bury his feelings for the heroine in like 20 other girls.
I don't mind it if they have other relations in the beginning, but I feel like once there is any kind of physical encounter between the MC's that they should both be so hung up on the other person that can't/don't want anyone else for a time.
Aside from some odd dialogue and writing choices and some grammatical errors, that was my biggest issue with the book. I can get over most anything else, but that just bugs the you know what out of me when they can't keep it in their pants!
Also, there was this one odd thing I have to mention! There is a scene in the book where the author does like a shout out for herself... to another book she wrote...it was strange and I am not sure how I felt about that. Hmmmmm...

Anyway, I would recommend reading it, but just go in know these issues about the book and hopefully you can enjoy the underlying story. I will be reading the next one, so we shall see if that one is any more my speed. (hide spoiler)]

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