3.5 Smooches
Synopsis
Welcome back to The Core. ALICE includes all four installments of Alice’s story: Enticed, Seduced, Exposed, and Elevated!
The most exclusive, anything-goes, all-night dance club is alive with music, drinks, and unrivaled passion. As The Core’s top matchmaker, Alice is gunning for a promotion. One she’s got locked down as long as nothing disrupts her dance-floor dominating routine. But when the sexy mechanic Evan walks into her work and shakes her confidence in her matchmaking abilities, Alice can’t resist his good looks or his passionate ways. He sweeps her off her feet, enticing her with the adrenaline of his bike and the intensity of his attraction to her.
But Alice knows she can’t get close to anyone from The Core. And after learning the secrets in Evan’s past that drive his irresistible, never-hold-back personality, she’s not sure she can let him go without falling back on the dangerous patterns that haunt her own drug-addicted history. Admitting his part in the devastating loss of his brother nearly rips Evan apart.
Those pills locked in a drawer in her office grow more tempting with each passing day.
Now it’s Alice’s turn to let go of her fears and elevate herself to a new level… one filled with passion, confidence, and—she hopes—Evan’s reckless love.
Alice’s tale unfolds in this collection from The Core with a hot, emotional story that will tantalize new readers of the series and fans of The Core: Andee alike.
Review
Going into this new set of stories by Nola and Emily I was expecting it to be heavy on the sex and light on the romance. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that original matchmaker and all around awesome Core girl, Alice, does indeed have a nice backstory and romance.
The first set of stories while incredibly sexy was more about self discovery and sexual awakening. The Core: Alice on the other hand is more about Alice discovering who she is and what she is capable of and learning that although her decisions in the past have not always been the best she does deserve to find love and a real life,
Evan is a friend of the boss, Derek, and from the beginning he is only interested in Alice. This is scary as hell for her and while she clearly wants him she is too devoted to her job and staying clean to give into him.
Overall, This was a fast and super sexy read and while I liked the first set of stories The Core: Andee I thought The Core: Alice was much better! I look forward to seeing what these author have in-store for us next!
~miranda
