Title: Shameless With Him
Series: Less Than #3
Series: Less Than #3
Author: Carrie Ann Ryan
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: March 24, 2020
Blurb
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Carrie Ann Ryan
completes a sexy contemporary series with an unrequited crush on the bad boy
next door.
Caleb Carr might have once been ready for commitment, but when the unexpected slams into him with the force of a two-ton truck, he knows he has to run away from anything that might be important. Zoey might well be his final temptation, but to keep her whole, he’ll walk away.
Zoey Wager has loved Caleb since they were eight. And has had her heart broken from afar repeatedly ever since. It doesn’t help that every time she sees him—even when she’s running away halfway across the world—he’s with another woman. She's watched him fall in lust her entire life. Now, she's ready to watch him fall in love. With her.
Chance encounters of the sequined kind, best friends who aren’t really just your friend, and childhood meet cutes that are anything but cute force the Carr siblings to face what life has brought them. Again.
Caleb Carr might have once been ready for commitment, but when the unexpected slams into him with the force of a two-ton truck, he knows he has to run away from anything that might be important. Zoey might well be his final temptation, but to keep her whole, he’ll walk away.
Zoey Wager has loved Caleb since they were eight. And has had her heart broken from afar repeatedly ever since. It doesn’t help that every time she sees him—even when she’s running away halfway across the world—he’s with another woman. She's watched him fall in lust her entire life. Now, she's ready to watch him fall in love. With her.
Chance encounters of the sequined kind, best friends who aren’t really just your friend, and childhood meet cutes that are anything but cute force the Carr siblings to face what life has brought them. Again.
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Review:
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
As I was nearing the end of the novel, I found myself asking "What does one do when they realize that they don't like the hero of the novel?". I thought I was ok with Caleb, but I didn't like what he did to push Zoey away or the fact that he kept so many things from her. The fact that he seemed to have a bunch of ex-girlfriends/female friends everywhere he went didn't help either.
You might not know it, but I am a big Carrie Ann Ryan fan. I have loved most of her books and I had high expectations from this one. I really thought that the story was set on the right course and that everything was ok until I realized that it wasn't. There was zero character development and the climax of the story was less satisfactory than a two-pump one nightstand. We should have had twice as many pages in order to make the story feel less rushed and more organic.
Zoey was a pushover. She should have demanded more from Caleb and make him grovel and work for her forgiveness. Caleb sometimes treated her like she didn't matter much to him and I didn't like that. I was not happy with either main character, but mostly with the "hero" of the novel. Even their intimate scenes (to put it mildly for Amazon's sake) felt impersonal and like something you would read in a romance novel where one of the main characters is sleeping with someone who is not the other main character rather than a scene where the two main characters are having a moment. Can I also mention, that Zoey's sister seemed like she didn't care much for her sister and yet everything was forgiven in one moment with a few words? Zoey was handing out forgiveness cards like they were monopoly money.
The epilogue was one of the best things that happened to this book and it closed the Carr books in a lovely way. I haven't read the previous books, so I cannot talk about them, but I wouldn't recommend Shameless with him.
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Author Bio
Carrie Ann
Ryan is the New York Times and USA
Today bestselling author of contemporary, paranormal, and young adult romance.
Her works include the Montgomery Ink, Redwood Pack, Fractured Connections, and
Elements of Five series, which have sold over 3.0 million books worldwide. She
started writing while in graduate school for her advanced degree in chemistry
and hasn’t stopped since. Carrie Ann has written over seventy-five novels and
novellas with more in the works. When she’s not losing herself in her emotional
and action-packed worlds, she’s reading as much as she can while wrangling her
clowder of cats who have more followers than she does.
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