A review by chroniclesofabookreader
Boiling Point by Tessa Bailey
4.0
**4.5 Stars**
This was something a little different from Tessa Bailey. There’s still the unbelievable dirty-talking, the scorching sex scenes, and the five-dimensional characters, but in BOILING POINT we get to see how Ms. Bailey writes a male submissive alpha. Seems kind of impossible right? Erotica mixed with a medium suspenseful plot, she’ll again have you glued to the pages just desperate to see where the characters go.
Austin is a genius conman who can morph into anyone and anything. So good at it, in fact, that he’s lost who he is underneath it all. One person that centers him, and makes him desperate to find the real him, is Polly Banks. Making a living off of conning women and having that sensual magnetism, Austin finds a challenge with Polly because she hates him. In all honesty, she detests every aspect of him and everything he’s about. Having been the victim of a swindling conman in the past, she’s out to exact revenge and stay away from the pull that a certain conman has on her. But what she doesn’t realize is that the man who has lost himself can be actually pretty damn good in finding pieces of herself that she didn’t know she lost.
BOILING POINT focused more on the characters and their path to healing, just as the rest of the series has thus far. Each book has had the tougher, rougher characters that need some restoration, TLC, and a good, life-changing f*cking (hey, I had to say it). Polly and Austin had a wild push and pull that created this divide of her doing everything she could to brush what he did to her off. And with trust being so limited, both Polly and Austin had to rely on their own instincts to trust that the other was showing their true selves. He became exactly what she needed, and she became the balm to soothe his used soul. I loved the rag-tag team of criminals-now-on-the-ride-side (or are they?) that we’ve come to know, and how each one has a deficiency that only another can fill. Imagine the Suicide Squad characters in an erotic novel (by Tessa Bailey) and you have this sexually charged, suspense-related novel.
**Received an early copy in exchange for an honest review**
This was something a little different from Tessa Bailey. There’s still the unbelievable dirty-talking, the scorching sex scenes, and the five-dimensional characters, but in BOILING POINT we get to see how Ms. Bailey writes a male submissive alpha. Seems kind of impossible right? Erotica mixed with a medium suspenseful plot, she’ll again have you glued to the pages just desperate to see where the characters go.
Austin is a genius conman who can morph into anyone and anything. So good at it, in fact, that he’s lost who he is underneath it all. One person that centers him, and makes him desperate to find the real him, is Polly Banks. Making a living off of conning women and having that sensual magnetism, Austin finds a challenge with Polly because she hates him. In all honesty, she detests every aspect of him and everything he’s about. Having been the victim of a swindling conman in the past, she’s out to exact revenge and stay away from the pull that a certain conman has on her. But what she doesn’t realize is that the man who has lost himself can be actually pretty damn good in finding pieces of herself that she didn’t know she lost.
BOILING POINT focused more on the characters and their path to healing, just as the rest of the series has thus far. Each book has had the tougher, rougher characters that need some restoration, TLC, and a good, life-changing f*cking (hey, I had to say it). Polly and Austin had a wild push and pull that created this divide of her doing everything she could to brush what he did to her off. And with trust being so limited, both Polly and Austin had to rely on their own instincts to trust that the other was showing their true selves. He became exactly what she needed, and she became the balm to soothe his used soul. I loved the rag-tag team of criminals-now-on-the-ride-side (or are they?) that we’ve come to know, and how each one has a deficiency that only another can fill. Imagine the Suicide Squad characters in an erotic novel (by Tessa Bailey) and you have this sexually charged, suspense-related novel.
**Received an early copy in exchange for an honest review**