Review: Riskier Business by Tessa Bailey
SYNOPSIS:
One more game. And this time, there are no rules…
After a life of pool hustling and living on the wrong side of the law, Ruby Elliott is living on the straight and narrow with sexy-as-all-hell NYPD detective, Troy Bennett. Now the only trouble Ruby has with the law is the naughty kind, pinned against the wall by Troy’s strict and spectacularly hard body. Obeying his every command. Both of them losing themselves in a lust that borders on obsession…
But then her father returns with an offer she can’t refuse: one last hustle in exchange for information. Information she’d die to have. As the pieces and the players of the game reveal themselves, Troy feels the fine edges of his control slipping—control he can’t channel without hurting Ruby. The stakes are high, and the risk higher. Because losing this final game could cost more than Ruby’s heart…it might cost her life.
REVIEW:
It’s a new year and time to start a new-to-me Tessa Bailey series that has been sitting on my shelf for far too long. I have previous met Ruby and Troy in her Line of Duty series and was looking forward to visiting these characters again. Unfortunately, my feelings towards them remain relatively the same. The sex and chemistry between these two is sizzling, steaming up the screen of my Kindle, but their relationship is meh.
I loved how Troy is the textbook definition of alpha. An exercise in pure male control and strength. But I can’t get over Ruby’s reckless behavior and decisions. She continues, time and time again, to put her loved ones at risk while selfishly thinking about herself and only herself. A life or death situation shouldn’t be what it takes for her to pull her head out of her *ss. I am glad Ruby got the answers she wanted but I continue to sit here and ask, was it really worth it?
While Troy and Ruby struggle to communicate their feelings outside of the bedroom, the sex couldn’t be hotter. Role play, spanking, you name it and this raunchy book had it. But for me their relationship lacked that crucial connection emotionally…Bowen is back and every scene he appeared in, I desperately wanted to know more. I loved the few plot twists he was involved in and was delighted to see the next book, Risking It All, is his.
LINKS:
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