Sweet Addiction (Sweet Addiction, #1)

by J. Daniels

[Angie]

I really liked Sweet Addiction until about the halfway point when everything just fell apart. When it starts, Dylan is at the wedding of her ex-boyfriend, because she made the cake. It's there where she meets Reese who is undeniably sexy, and they disappear to have a quickie in the bathroom. From there, after a bit of a misunderstanding, the two strike up a fling and have no intention on getting serious. Obviously, that doesn't work out to well because lots of sex leads to lots of feelings.

Sweet Addiction was fun and sexy at first. Dylan and Reese hit it off immediately, and I liked that they talked about where they stand on what they're doing. Casual but monogamous. However, soon enough it's like a switch was flipped and everyone just stopped making sense. Reese became the typical, overbearing Alpha male. He beats up Dylan's ex, yells at her over her sexy dress (which she wore for him!), literally rips off said dress, gets pissed that she might be getting a massage from a man during a spa day, gets pissed that maybe a man does her bikini wax, doesn't wake her up for work and calls her assistant to let him know she'll be late so that he can watch her sleep instead, and generally just oversteps! Oh, and he steals her panties every time they have sex and won't say what he does with them. Dylan does tell him off a few times, but then she just has mind blowing sex with him and all is forgotten.

Then there's Dylan's issues. She's only been with one man before Reese, and naturally she's curious how many women he's been with. She keeps nagging him until he gives her a number and then gets mad about it! Then she says she's not mad about the number, it's that he threw it in her face! What are you even talking about?! Then she continues to act like it's so wrong that he's been with women BEFORE HE KNEW HER. Dylan also likes to jump to conclusions, yell a lot, slap people, and generally not listen to what people actually have to say. And at one point she tells Reese that he must not want her around because he didn't call for two days after she told him to leave her alone, and instead of ripping her clothes off, he sat down to watch TV. Um, doesn't she realize that she told him to back off, and now she's pissed that he's backing off, and sometimes couples do watch TV together?! I couldn't stand it. So much unnecessary drama!

I wish Sweet Addiction had stayed light, flirty, and fun like it was in the beginning. The relationship drama was just so over the top, and I didn't believe the characters actions for a second. It really was like they went from zero to crazy in four seconds out of nowhere! Not to mention that if a guy yelled at me, dragged me out of a public place, then ripped my (expensive) dress, I'd be getting a restraining order, not giving up the goods.

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