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    The Sweetest Taboo
    The Sweetest Taboo
    The Sweetest Taboo
    Audiobook6 hours

    The Sweetest Taboo

    Written by Alison Kent

    Narrated by Wyatt Baker

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    Erin Thatcher figures there's no reason she can't have a hot fling with the wrong kind of guy while she waits for the right one, should he ever cross her path. So when she spies a magazine article about Men To Do before saying "I do," her imagination goes wild! Her sexy but reclusive neighbor is part of her nightly fantasies. Now it's time to see what he's like in the flesh....

    Sebastian Gallo is a man obsessed. A bestselling author, he uses a pseudonym to ensure his privacy, keeping the real world out. But his gorgeous neighbor has consumed his thoughts—in his bed, in his shower—to the point where his writing is suffering. He just can't ignore the heat that exists between them whenever they meet. But can he risk revealing his true self?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBryant Street Publishing
    Release dateFeb 12, 2020
    ISBN9781094402840
    Author

    Alison Kent

    Alison Kent was a born reader, but it wasn't until she reached 30 that she knew she wanted to be a writer when she grew up. Five years later, she made her first sale. Two years after that, she accepted an offer issued by the senior editor of Harlequin Temptation live on the 'Isn't It Romantic?' episode of CBS's 48 Hours. The resulting book, Call Me, was a Romantic Times finalist for Best First Series Book.

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    • 5/5
      This might be one of my favorite romances I have read in a long time ? also, I have a sneaking suspicion that the idea for the book started like this: “imagine the sexiest, most swoony man to ever exist. Perfect in every way. Has a big sexy shower and a big sexy library, is super hot, and is a secretive, massively famous writer. Okay. Just going to try to figure out now who he would fall in love with, and what could go wrong.” I will reread this many times over just to fall in love with Sebastian again whenever my life feels lacking. Also, the narrator was a bit wooden in the beginning, but he warmed up after the first couple of chapters. I loved him reading banter between the fmc and her best friend ?
    • 4/5
      Great read yet again!!!! Will always choose one of yours if I have a choice.
    • 5/5
      I loved this story! I hated to see it end.
    • 4/5
      Eh…. I don’t know how a story can be both excellent and sweetly inspiring AND frustratingly unsatisfying; but this one manages…. It’s good. It’s well-written; I enjoyed the characters and the plot, but there was far too much jumping for it to be happy or fully satisfying. Too much jumping from one emotion to the other; and too much jumping from one point to another with no development. But the most dissatisfying part was the ending; the last two chapters. Oi. Technically, yes, we did get a HEA, but HOW DID WE GET THERE? There’s no story or explanation of how, and that almost makes me want to go back and give this only 3 stars at best, but everything else was too good for that. I just despise the lazy way the author wrapped this one up with literally zero conversation or coming together of the characters in almost any way at all. It’s just bleh for that reason. But still worth reading, hence my dilemma…
    • 5/5
      Just.... WOW! What a great story! It has it all!
    • 5/5
      Love it!!! Two stories in one!!! We need the other two now!!
    • 5/5
      What? This story was so good and so sexy and so romantic. I always wonder where authors get their ideas and Inspiration from. I don't care. I ask only ask that they keep sharing them with us readers. The world can't get enough of Love sweet Love. Thank You, Alison Kent for sharing your imagination and creativity when you feel such an amazing story within you. How did you ever think of this? Sooo Good! I would also like to Thank Wyatt Baker for his awesome performance.
    • 3/5
      I only read the first 10 chapters. Will not finish because it took that long to say hi?

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Honestly found it a bit strange that a man was narrating this. Felt it was probably best for a duo/dual narration.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      The email messages that tied this into the other two books of the trilogy were distracting, I would have enjoyed it more without them.The two relationships show here were engaging, and the story amusing.The big point of conflict, that he didn't tell her he was a writer, didn't work for me. I have no idea why she got so cranky about it.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      This book has a little too much frank sex in it
    • 5/5
      I liked the storyline. Felt the ending was a little fast- ended abruptly
    • 1/5
      I just can't! In summary, it needs better direction, flow, research, editing, character development, and clear motivation.
      I made it 2/3 of the way through and gave up. It is chaotic. The storyline and timeline are confusing, which may explain why there are multiple takes in some places, I'm guessing they were supposed to be spliced together, and the duplicated bits cut out but they forgot?
      Storywise, I'm starting to strongly dislike the two women. After just 2 nights of sex (one of them was a stranger she had lusted after from a far), and they are dickmatised into neurotic clingy tropes who think they are in love lol.
      Lastly, the use and pronunciation of (British) English words, needs to be properly researched, e.g., Quay as in quayside rhymes with key or sea, and not as in quaint or quail as the narrator does in this book. I see someone else commented on the use of British slang words too so I can only guess, without completing the book, that it may have been a commonly used word for the female genitalia which Americans rhyme with hot or dot, forgetting that in the UK we use the hard A sound so it rhymes with cat. It happens too often in audiobooks when they put on any UK dialect why the voice actor isn't a native of the Uk and is beyond annoying.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      Um no!! Sorry, this was a dumb book, The story would say one thing but completely say something else.. so stupid!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      I liked parts of the story, but the end was not great. And the use of British slang was annoying. Fanny does not mean the same thing in the US as it does in the UK. Shows poor research by the author

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Well written, but a bit of a weird, anticlimactic ending. I liked the two couple’s storylines in the book.
    • 1/5
      Honestly it felt very rushed and disorganized. I like when the books switch perspectives, but it was all over the place. It switched perspectives constantly and sometimes started with a characters book. It was confusing and not easy to follow. There was too much going on with two love stories and neither of them were developed enough. I listened to the whole book hoping it would get better but the end was so anticlimactic and stupid.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      if you read it, it is not so bad; I mean, not bad at all. I liked the part I have read - the beninning. Then... I had to do something and had to move to the audio version - totally a disaster! the audiobook is so wrong, it is like it is intended to try your patience to keep listening... of course, I had to abandon it. Maybe, some day I will get to finish it in reading the end. Maybe....

      2 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Disjointed, characters are ok and the story isn’t bad but it’s very disjointed

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      3.75 Stars for me!

      Quite a bit of heat and lots of angst. The H is reclusive due to a rough childhood with no one to trust and the h is a bit neurotic but has a good support system in place. The ending was a bit rushed and there were a few loose ends but I did enjoy the story.