A review by elylibrarysec
Dirty Defiance by Brenda Rothert, Chelle Bliss
5.0
Regan Titan loves to tease her husband and she gets to reap the rewards. Jude Titan loves to tease his wife and maybe watch her suffer just a little bit. All that teasing doesn’t make a marriage though. I felt this more of a political intrigue than a romance but that was fine by me. I got to see their romance in book one of the series. There’s a conflict that our authors have created that eventually you see that Reagan’s thoughts put the nail on the head.
With everything going on in DC right now you need to put that aside so it doesn’t spoil what you’re reading here. It does add a little bit of realism to the story though. Our couple shows that being in politics can be hard on both the husband and the wife. As you read their conversations they just seem so real plus we get an inside look on how they try and process their personal lives as Jude is on the campaign trail. A sad point for me was that they still seemed so independent. I’m not saying that they should lose their identity but expected some mutual respect for what they do.
I like both these authors separately and as a team. They compliment each other very well. I can’t tell which author wrote what and that’s the way it should be. It’s also what makes for an enjoyable read. You don’t want to sit there and pick through a book and say so and so wrote this part and so and so wrote that part. If I did that I probably wouldn’t have enjoyed what they wrote. And I might not finish because of all the energy needed to pick everything apart – where’s the enjoyment in that.
This book is listed as a standalone but if you want to know how Regan and Jude met, you should read Dirty Work and then go ahead and read this. The first book came out in 2016 so some time has passed and what a great incentive to revisit them and then find out how their story plays out. I will say that I liked the ending but it just didn’t seem like an ending. It left me hoping that even though the trilogy is over, that maybe we will see them or some of the secondary characters again. But if not that’s ok because I can revisit them at any time.
I was not compensated nor was I required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.
With everything going on in DC right now you need to put that aside so it doesn’t spoil what you’re reading here. It does add a little bit of realism to the story though. Our couple shows that being in politics can be hard on both the husband and the wife. As you read their conversations they just seem so real plus we get an inside look on how they try and process their personal lives as Jude is on the campaign trail. A sad point for me was that they still seemed so independent. I’m not saying that they should lose their identity but expected some mutual respect for what they do.
I like both these authors separately and as a team. They compliment each other very well. I can’t tell which author wrote what and that’s the way it should be. It’s also what makes for an enjoyable read. You don’t want to sit there and pick through a book and say so and so wrote this part and so and so wrote that part. If I did that I probably wouldn’t have enjoyed what they wrote. And I might not finish because of all the energy needed to pick everything apart – where’s the enjoyment in that.
This book is listed as a standalone but if you want to know how Regan and Jude met, you should read Dirty Work and then go ahead and read this. The first book came out in 2016 so some time has passed and what a great incentive to revisit them and then find out how their story plays out. I will say that I liked the ending but it just didn’t seem like an ending. It left me hoping that even though the trilogy is over, that maybe we will see them or some of the secondary characters again. But if not that’s ok because I can revisit them at any time.
I was not compensated nor was I required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.