Review: Filthy (The Reckless Series #2)
HJ Bellus - Filthy (The Reckless Series #2)
So this book got me feeling mixed emotions.
First, it was steamy. It started with a hot scene after a hot scene, and another one after that. Too steamy that at one point, I asked myself, is there anything else going on her aside from them banging everywhere?
“I’m no weatherman, but you can expect a few inches tonight.”
Rhett uses his thumb to brush at the corners of his lips while stepping back from me.
Then came the moment where they agreed to try it out. Without that much history narrated, no flashback except for that nightmare, I thought it seemed too good to be true. I even had to check if I was near the end because they seem to be working out well.
“I actually love watching you up there on stage. You’re so powerful and fucking sexy. You stare me down out of everyone in that fucking club, but yet you entertain all the ladies like your eyes are on them, when they’re not, they are on me. You make me feel everything, Rhett, like no one has before.”
Until came the girl’s paranoia, where she gets insecure and distrustful in every turn. It made all the good reasons they pointed out at the wedding scene useless. Actually, everything became pointless because she herself said she wanted to try, and then the next minute she’s saying she can’t.
And just when she was going to really try this time, she saw the scene with the ex and decided to storm out.
What I did like with this book is the plot twist, where she found out that she’s actually adopted. Now while I love this unexpected turn of events, for some who never read the other book it may be hard to comprehend why it was such a big thing.
There’s the confrontation scene, the action scene, and the hospital scene. Now the opening of the chapter where she was dreaming of the grave got me; I really thought he died there. That was another shocking scene, not really a turn of events, but a dream of a sad ending.
Overall, this book has good point and bad points. The sex scenes were hot, but too much scenes like that is kind of a bit boring, no matter how hard the male lead character is described. It can be sort of an insta-love, because the history wasn’t really fully disclosed, but I like how there were surprises dropped.
“You believed in parts of me I never did. You taught me it’s impossible to unlove you. My soul is yours and now my hands will forever be yours.”
4 stars.
