Sudden Desires: Sweet Promises #1 by Shanora Williams Review

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Synopsis

Screw the ring.
The good life.
My selfish wife.
I have felt abandoned by her for years. Forgotten.
Belittled.
Neglected.
Unloved….

But all of that has changed.
I’ve met an incredible woman. I didn’t mean for anything to happen with her. We were only supposed to be doing business together. But that sassy mouth, fine ass, and those perky tits got to me. It was a spur of the moment thing – both of us blinded by lust.

Is it bad to crave a woman so badly that you’ll do practically anything to hold onto her? Like make sweet promises that you know damn well can’t be kept?

Don’t be fooled. This newfound “happiness” may only be a f*cking façade, and what’s worse is that I can’t let it go.
Not now.
Probably not ever.

Why? Because there is only so much rejection a man can take before he finally just… gives into temptation.

 

Review

This was one of these stories that I really had to take into consideration and look at objectively because the story matter of infidelity is something I tend to avoid like the plague in my books, and it isn’t due to some terrible past where I had my own heart broken and now I’m transferring that angst, it’s just something I find incredibly distasteful to dive into when I’m looking for a happy ever after feeling.  What sort of hero can be redeemed if he has a callous and cheating heart and mind?  Well, if you take a chance on Sudden Desires, you’re bound to find out.

Although to say that Griffin is callous, is not entirely accurate.  Griffin is suffering in a loveless, fairly demeaning and disintegrating marriage and it’s through this that he has lost the man he used to be, his drive, his passion and his sanity.  When he tells you that his wife is neglectful, unappreciative and selfish, he’s right on the money but this story has so many deep, hidden, scandalous layers to it that to leave the story there would be shameful.  What was really well done of this book was the fact that we get three points of view- Griffin, his wife Collette and the other woman, Angelina.  It is no black and white, right and wrong straightforward story, there are elements at work that are just touched upon, begging for us to question them, hooking us so we need to know more but as it’s a serial, you know you aren’t going to get all the answers you demand.

Sudden Desires has more anti-heroes than you can shake a stick at, so be prepared, there will be some moments you despise, others you will love and more that you will salivate over but just know that there is a lot of darkness, kink, infidelity everywhere and a gripping suspenseful storyline playing throughout and you will either love it or loathe it.

‘He’s hardly rubbed two words together since I came in the bedroom.  I’m tired of the bullshit.  Tired of the nonsense.  I need to know if he feels the same way as I do.  Is he fed up?  Is he also tired of this charade?  Tired of pretending.  Has he finally given up on all of this?  I need to know.  I mean, even though it won’t change much, it will help something.  If he does still feel something for me, then maybe this won’t be so bad.’

Shanora is a great storyteller, her characters are diverse and complex and realistic and with Sudden Desires, she will alienate some readers but there will be hoardes more that appreciate this book for what it is, a scandalous, sumptuous and downright provocative read.

~Nicole

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