This book is crazy, but I loved it anyway! The dialogue is awkward, it has loads of typos, but honestly, I couldn’t put it down. Emma and Damien’s chemistry is smokin’ hot! We jump headfirst into the fire fast, and those first love scenes are so steamy I’m still getting goosebumps long after putting the book down. The heat does cool a bit, and the love scenes do get a little redundant, but I was impressed that Evie Dawn was able to incorporate one in almost every chapter and basically keep things fresh and exciting. It’s so sweet when we begin to see that Damien really cares about Emma, that she isn’t just an affair for him and that the names he calls her by and the things he says in bed aren’t literal reality but terms of endearment that turn Emma and the reader on as her lover teases her right up until the very end. The book does have its holes. We hear Emma’s lover and husband have known each since college days, but we never learn why they’re “enemies,” and are simply left to imagine they’re engaged in a battle of the egos and nothing more. More importantly, why do Emma and Damien fall in love, exactly? I guess we can assume it is because Damien gets Emma in ways Liam doesn’t, that he’s sensitive to her feelings where Liam never was and that his concern and love for Emma are simply deeper and more genuine than her husband’s. But it’s difficult to see this develop when all Emma and Damien ever do is have sex. The sex makes the book fun, but I would have liked to see a little more apart from just that. And what they were doing in the last quarter of the book…really didn’t care for it. That said, I loved the story anyway. In spite of its flaws, it’s easily one of the best books I’ve read in 2024!