I was quite reluctant to read this book after reading
reviews which were not all bad and were not all great. Most were somewhere in
the middle. I read a sample of this book and then my attentions went elsewhere.
However, the kink-foolery fairies must have been in favor of this read, because
I found myself requesting an ARC of This Man Confessed from Netgalley. Why
would I request a third book of a trilogy and have not read the first or second
book. I don’t know!!! So without any further delay I purchased This Man by Jodi
Ellen Malpas and this is what I thought.
There was something about that Jesse Ward that was both crazy
and charming at the same time. He had personality for days and smashed right
into Ava O’shea like a wrecking ball. Those two together was like mixing light
and dark colors together in a washing machine and not knowing what you would
get after the spin cycle.
Ava was an interior designer for a firm in London, who was
requested to decorate a new extension of a property belonging to Jesse Ward. Ava had no idea what she has stepped into but the
instantaneous attraction she has towards the handsome, arrogant, and evasive
Jesse is the one thing that she know is for certain. I am sure that she did not imagine how her
arrival at the Manor would forever change the course of her life.
Jesse took the term
man-child to an entirely different level. He was moody, stubborn, and sometimes
on the verge of being annoying in his relentless pursuit of Ava. He chased her
to a point where it was borderline stalking; like this one time, when she was
actually doing some interior designer-like tasks at the Manor and she was led
into a room where Jesse was waiting in the bathroom sans his shirt. Yeah what
happened next was hottish-like but slightly creepy.
There were parts of the story where I felt a little sorry
for Ava because she had just gone through a dramatic break-up and her best
friend Kate was less than supportive when it came to matters involving Jesse.
Kate LOVED that man and every time Ava would tell her about Jesse’s
shenanigans, Kate’s response would be “he’s just crazy about you”. Sure Kate…thanks.
I digress, Ava was eventually woo’d by Jesse’s in your face
tactics but still knew nothing about him except that he made her scream when
they… umm…you know. She even believed through most of the book that Jesse owned
a hotel without having a clue that he was the lord of a sexcroplois better
known as a high-end sex club.
Ava and Jesse’s relationship progressed and got weirder as I
turned the pages. Some parts were a bit much while others were kind of cute and
kinky. Like why did she keep losing her birth control pills? Is this what it means
to be crazy in love…?
Overall, this was an okay read that built the storyline of
these two characters up enough to read on to the second book, Beneath this Man.
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