Sweet Filthy Boy (Wild Seasons, #1)

by Christina Lauren

One-night stands are supposed to be with someone convenient, or wickedly persuasive, or regrettable. They aren't supposed to be with someone like him.

But after a crazy Vegas weekend celebrating her college graduation-and terrified of the future path she knows is a cop-out-Mia Holland makes the wildest decision of her life: follow Ansel Guillaume-her sweet, filthy fling-to France for the summer and just…play.

When feelings begin to develop behind the provocative roles they take on, and their temporary masquerade adventures begin to feel real, Mia will have to decide if she belongs in the life she left because it was all wrong, or in the strange new one that seems worlds away.

• ISBN10: 1476751803
• ISBN13: 9781476751801
• Publish Date: 22 May 2014 (first published 13 May 2014)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Imprint: Gallery
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 416
• Language: English

Reviews

[Sam@WLABB]

Entertaining with some great swoony parts. I loved listening to this as audio, because the french was very schmexy. This one probably leaned a little too far away from erotic romance for me. It still had a story, but a little less than I expected. However, I really loved the grand gesture and the ending was very strong.

[Angie]

Sweet Filthy Boy is a fake relationship turned real with an accidentally married twist! Mia and her friends head to Las Vegas after graduation, have a few too many drinks, and they all wake up married to another group of friends! Mia's friends immediately get annulments, but Mia had written herself a letter and made her husband promise not the annul until the Fall. Well, Mia isn't quite sure why she would do that, but she ultimately decides to trust herself. That means taking off to Paris, where Ansel lives, for the summer. The plan is to come back for school and unmarried, but plans change.

I must say that Sweet Filthy Boy was totally sweet and filthy! Mia and Ansel have a ton of sex! It's explosive sex! And it's not all missionary and locked gazes. They get rough and dirty and creative! In fact, part of their relationship development is revolved around the fact that intimacy gets awkward once Mia arrives in France. They're without a doubt attracted to each other, but at one point it's just not working for Mia. I love that the authors included that, because sex isn't always amazing and everyone certainly doesn't orgasm all of the time. But Mia and Ansel find a way to bring back that spark and holy crap! Explosions!

I also really loved the ending. I was definitely expecting an inevitable fight in Sweet Filthy Boy, and there is one. However, it doesn't go in the typical Romance novel way. Yes, Mia and Ansel have a temporary break up, but it was more than that. They both had things they needed to accomplish, and it they couldn't do them while together. Mia needed to spread her wings and find her way and that was wonderful! They actually talk about these things and a figure out what to do next. Hooray for communication!

Sweet Filthy Boy made me very happy. It's sweet and sexy and there's a bit of adventure thrown in there. I also really enjoyed getting to know Mia and Ansel's friends a little bit, who will be starring in the next books. I'm particularly excited to see Harlow again!

Read more of my reviews at Pinkindle Reads & Reviews.

[leelu92]

Sweet and Filthy is right. I enjoyed everything about this book. I loved Mia and Ansel and their story. Ansel and his sexy French self....good lord. This was my first book by the writing duo of Christina Lauren (I've had their stuff on my Kindle for awhile) and I know I'll be finishing this series and moving on to the Beautiful Bastard series.

[Cocktails and Books]

I adored this book. There was just something about Ansel, his sweetness, his absolutely filthy, filthy mouth and his feelings for Mia that has me willing Mia to choose him.

Mia and Ansel did their whole relationship backwards, marrying first in a somewhat drunken stupor, but it worked for them. Ansel's panache for jumping head first into a situation without really thinking it through helped Mia figure out what it was she wanted out of life, rather than living it based on her father's demands. She learned how to love herself and to embrace the one thing she loved most, dancing, even if she had to embrace it differently than she had wanted to before.

This book was a treat to read. It has it's funny moment, those hysterical bits where you have to go back and read them again and again. There was a ton of emotional elements, which made you love both these characters as they tried to come to terms with where they each wanted to go in live and incorporate the other in those plans. But this book was also incredibly hot and sexy. Ansel used sex as a method of communication when his words wouldn't get through to Mia. He was HAWT, sexy and down right dirty...reminding me why I took four years of high school French and four semesters in college. *LE SIGH*

I look forward to more from this series, as Mia and Ansel's friends get their stories. If they stay true to what we got a glimpse of in SWEET FILTHY BOY, they will be downright spectacular.