I have mixed feelings on What Would’ve Been. I liked the first half but the second had me wanting more. ~ Paige, Guilty Pleasures
Blurb:
Grayson
“I’m not a cocky man, I merely state facts. If that makes me an asshole, oh well.”
I own the most successful marketing agency in the city. Women crawl to me, and I let them suck me off as a reward. I like things my way and crave control, especially in the bedroom. Lately, a certain blonde has entrapped me, and I want nothing more than to bend her over my desk and shatter her.
It would never happen, though, as she is my best employee, and I am not worthy of her.
She would never understand my dark desires anyway.
Adelaide
“He’s an arrogant, condescending manwhore and a jerk face!”
But I also can’t stop pleasuring myself with thoughts of him either. Maybe it’s the kinky porn I’ve become immersed in, or my undersexed body, or a distraction from my reoccurring nightmares, but I swear he feels the same spark I do whenever we’re in the same room together.
Would it just be explosive sex? Would their secrets and pasts ruin any chances they had? Or, would this be their own kinky fairy tale come to life?
She’s an angel. He’s a beast.
What would happen if they finally join together?
I was hooked when I first began reading What Would’ve Been. I thought the author did a good job on character development in the beginning. Grayson is a successful business man. He describes himself as frank not cocky and if it makes him unlikable then so be it.
Adelaide had a tragic past but was able to forgive her abuser with a strong support system. She works for Grayson and knows how to do her job well.
Earlier in the book the the chemistry between was perfect. You could feel the push and pull of their emotions. The highs when they both succeed in business and the hurt when Grayson brought his personal life to the office.
The book changes courses for me about half way through. The pair finally explore their feelings and enter a relationship.
I was thrilled to finally see these two together but as a couple I didn’t get the intense connection I did when they were apart.
I felt the author would bring up storylines then let them fizzle or end in a lack luster way. There was a rivalry between him and his ex-best friend and ex-lover. I thought they would have developed more in the later chapters but it only amounted to a blimp in the book along with the mole in his company. I also thought the situation with his mother and step-father was a bit odd. There was also a weird BDSM element that didn’t work for me.
Despite the characters being in their early thirties I found that they spoke like teenagers and acted a bit juvenile for me. Her girlfriends in particular. They were too over the top with their language.
It ended on a high note but I was hoping for more in the second half of the book.
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