Another 5 star book for Rachael! This book was so well written and the story line was great! Follow Lucas & Avery as they navigate this thing call life and working together! Their pasts play a big role in how they move forward! Can she forget what he did years ago? Does he think he can be the person he truly wants to be? OMG you have to read this story and find out! Add to your tbr list and read it asap!!!

4.5 Stars
I first want to say please don't judge this book by its title.
Lucas made a mistake the night before his wedding and that mistake lead him to become a manwhore, he makes no excuses for having a diffferent woman every night of the week the only day he keeps free is Sunday that's the day he saves for his sister.
Avery can't believe her new boss is Lucas, he broke her sisters heart when he was caught in bed with her other sister the night before the wedding. Avery always looked upto Lucas before that fateful night and now she finding herself having to be told what to do by the man she despise's.
The thing with this book is everything is not what it seems, did Lucas cheat that night or did he just fall asleep, does he want a different women every night of the week or is he just covering up his true feelings for the girl who now works for him. This book is filled with witty banter, humorous moments and it was fun to read. Rachel Van Dyken writes these types of stories so well and if you give this book a chance you won't be dissapointed as I said at the start don't judge a book by its cover. I loved Lucas and Avery's story after all what's not to love about a witty funny couple and a book with a HEA. Great job from a great author

This book is different than the other romantic comedies I've read by Ms. Van Dyken. The title didn't really throw me off because I just knew she wouldn't write a book about true "cheating." There is cheating in this book but once you read it, you'll understand that there's so much more to the story than this one time incident.

Lucas Thorn is a man that has a different woman for each night of the week, except Sundays LOL He doesn't want to commit to anyone because of what happened in the past but when Avery shows back up in his life....the girl he's kind of always loved, is there a second chance for them?

I found myself laughing out loud at times with some of the scenes between Lucas and Avery and talk about a magnetic draw...these two are meant to be together. And his mom I found to be quite funny. Once we get down to the nitty gritty and Avery finds out what really happened, she has a whole new understanding and appreciation for our "Cheater".

While doesn't have the exact same humor and lightheartedness as other RVD books, it was still an enjoyable read and I'm glad I didn't let the title stop me.

Cheater is the antithesis of a cheating book! Don't let the title scare you off, instead jump at the chance to read something that will make you shake your head, laugh out loud and have your heart beat out of your chest! ~ Heather, White Hot Reads

Today is the day we address the giant elephant in the room. Lucas Thorn was a sickness. <---- Actually this is a line from the book, it's not my ingenious prose. But it is the truth! Lucas Thorn is a sickness. The kind of sickness that sucks you in from the moment you set eyes on him, draws you near and captivates you from your head to your toes. He may even suck your soul in and steal it in only a way Lucas Thorn can.

He's hot. He's funny. He's determined. He's --- special.

"He."
"Loved."
"The."
"Holes."
Dead. I died laughing. I mean, I laughed so hard I started wheezing and coughing and wheezing and snorting. This was so perfectly timed.

Avery is the thorn in Lucas Thorn's side. She's the missing piece of his puzzle. But he's not the missing piece of hers. He's the sickness that you never wish to take hold of your body, mind or soul again so you hide. You hide as best as you can so you never allow the sickness to find you.

I can't tell you how guys how much I loved this book. It touched me in those touchy feely places. It made me laugh, feel and even sigh a couple times. I admit, I didn't know what to expect and I bet, because of that I was so thrilled by what I came across. RVD has a style all her own and as she didn't disappoint. Take a deep breath. Know that she won't lead you astray. This book is going to set you afire and alight with belief in love and life and maybe a bit of fate.

Cheater is the first book in the Curious Liaisons series. Please, please, please read this!! This is not a cheating book. Yes, I know what the name says, and I know how we all feel about Cheaters…but if you love Rachel and her books like I do, you will give this a chance. This is a second chance love story. And, yes, she's the sister of his ex fiancee, but it's not what you think. I promise you. Give Lucas Thorn a chance, you will fall for him as hard as I did. He's a complicated man who suffered a loss years ago. And it wasn't the loss of his fiancee. He lost his best friend. The red headed, mouthy girl who he loved spending time with. Four years later and she's his new intern. Avery is not going to make it easy on him. She hates him, or thinks she does. She's so damn funny and quirky and I love her to pieces. Lucas, or Thorn as Avery calls him, has a system and for some reason as soon as Avery shows up, it all goes to hell. Which turns out is a very good thing. Avery can't stop lusting after the man she had a crush on all those years ago. It's wrong. But, why does something so wrong feel so right? I can't really say anymore because I don’t want to give away anything! You really just need to read it! I love Lucas and Avery. I laughed so hard! Then I got hot and bothered, swooned, and laughed more. Lucas and Avery are one of my favorite RVD couples! I couldn’t put it down and I didn't want it to end!

"As amusing as it is to make you suffer, I’m not going to let you go down with the Titanic."
"Are you the Titanic in this situation?"
"Get on the lifeboat. Maybe in your version you can save Jack and live happily ever after."

"And...I will now bid you farewell."
"Tell me how much you hate yourself for saying 'bid' and 'farewell' in the same sentence."
"So, so much."

"You're a bad habit, Thorn. An addiction I can't kick - each kiss gets me drunker than the first, until I lose all sense of right and wrong."

Hilarious, sexy and delivers all the feels. Lucas and Avery may not like each other, but their chemistry is off the charts! A great redemption story of love and second chances!

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I'm a big big fan of Rachel's, And I'm always excited when i get to read one of her books, This was not what i though it would be it was a very great and gripping story, Lucas isn't who you think he is, to me he's just confused and when he sees Avery again everything changes for them both. OK so i hate giving too much away, I will say i couldn't put this down and there were many laughs, I loved every page and would defiantly recommend this as a must read.

Omg I love this book .. Just like all her book Rachel rocks...I couldn't put this one down ..I instantly fell in love with Lucas and Avery from the very beginning..could see that they was doing everything to ignor their connection ....Love how Lucas mind change when he realize how he felt....felt all kind of emotion throughout the book....this is a must read book ...hurrry buy this you won't regret
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If you’re a reader whose hard limit is cheating, don’t be scared away by the title nor the blurb. This story is not what you think it is; it’s actually quite fun and sexy with none of the kind of cheating you think there is. RVD’s brand of humor and playfulness is present as always, and it’s a unique tale of a man and a woman, the most unlikeliest of matches, finding their way to one another.

Cheater details a man made up of his choices–one choice in particular. His consequence for that night plays out daily with his schedule of women. But with the addition of Avery into his life, things become muddled and covered in static. It’s an unusual plot to a love story with these characters mired by the past and what connects them, but it works. The hilarity that ensues from a quick snowball of the situation gets funnier by the moment. Underneath the humor, though, lies the soul-deep connection these two share and I adored the way RVD carried us through their past and present.

I love stories of redemption and of true love, ones that have wry and witty characters, that ultimately show that faults or shortcomings aren’t what make you you. Cheater had all of that and more. I know fans of RVD will love it, and everyone will love Lucas Thorn and the impossible situation he’s in.

This novel was great fun to read, if a bit racy at times. The characters in it were quite dynamic and I enjoyed reading of all their escpades and adventures. Lucas Thorn was an... interesting.... character to say the least. He's introduced as a character you know you want to hate but can't end up hating, despite all of his (many) flaws. And of course I loved Avery, although i felt that the whole extra storyline with Lucas and Avery almost kissing while he was engaged to her sister was kind of awkward and redundant. I think that the storyline would've faired just as well without it and only having a slight hint of the mutual attraction prior to the first scenes of the novel.
Overall, a hilarious, (unexpectedly racy) novel.
Thank you so much to the publisher and to Netgalley for this opportunity.

This was a DNF for me. It wasn't even the "cheating" that I didn't like. I couldn't get past the idea of him being with all three sisters and with their family being okay with it.
Plus the whole love/hate thing going on between Lucas and Avery was too over the top and the way they talked to each other felt very immature.
This book just wasn't for me

3.25 stars--CHEATER is the first installment in Rachel Van Dyken’s contemporary, adult CURIOUS LIAISONS erotic, romance series. This is businessman Lucas Thorn, and PA Avery Black’s story line.

Told from dual first person points of view (Lucas and Avery) CHEATER looks at the tumultuous relationship between Lucas Thorn and Avery Black. Avery’s history with Lucas is a heartbreak of family and friendship. Lucas Thorn was once engaged to Avery’s sister Kayla but the night before their wedding a drunk Lucas was found in bed with Avery’s sister Brooke and the aftermath broke two families and destroyed several friendships that were years in the making. Four years had passed and Avery found herself employed by Lucas Thorn-a man she despised for betraying her family. What ensues is the rebuilding relationship between two people who have loved one another for many years.

CHEATER is a story about one man’s fight to move on with his life-a move that furthers his reputation as a manwhore and cheater. Lucas was never in love with Kayla Black but had never intentionally set out to destroy her life. Lucas’s attraction to Avery began years before but the ten-year age difference meant Lucas was more of a big brother than a potential romantic involvement. Now that Avery is Lucas’s assistant his attraction to his ex-fiancee’s sister continues to grow. The $ex scenes are intimate and seductive although both keep secret their ongoing affair.

There is plenty of back and forth banter with some over the top (and sometimes funny) but not necessarily believable reactions from the parental units on both sides of the relationship. For those readers who despise ‘cheating’ or ‘infidelity’ in their romance story lines CHEATER is a different take on adulterous relationships with some angst and heartbreak, humor and fun, at the expense of our story line hero. Not everyone or everything is as it seems. The maturity level of all of the characters is questionable; oft-times the juvenile behavior was similar to YA; all of the women in Lucas’s life obviously have issues of low self esteem; the parent’s attitude and emotional reactions were outlandish and caricature-like in presentation- the gynecological appointment so out of this world.

We are introduced to Avery’s sisters: Kayla the betrayed; Brooke the psychotic; and of course Avery’s parents whose acceptance of Lucas is way too enthusiastic. Avery’s best friend Austin Rogers may or may not have a thing for Lucas’s best friend plastic surgeon Thatch Holloway-a man whose own history of ‘cheating’ becomes fodder for Austin Rogers-their story line is next in Cheater’s Regret.

CHEATER is a slow building story line that tries too hard; a look at one man who lives life by his own rules; and one woman who doesn’t want to be another nameless face one night of the week. The premise is imaginative and farcical; the characters are sensational and theatrical. Rachel Van Dyken is a delightful story teller but I had difficulty enjoying her take on the CHEATER.

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I think Rachel Van Dyken is incapable of writing a book which I won't fall in love with! Her writing is simply pure genius, she makes me laugh so much but also you feel so much emotion with the characters.

My head kept telling me I shouldn't like the main man Lucas Thorne but I just can't help but love the cheeky, dirty talking, manwhore who manages to get away with having a different woman for each day of the week because he's honest with them!

You know that someone is going to come along and turn his world upside down, you know it's going to be hilarious when it does happen. Add the fact that she's his ex-fiancées sister and well the fun really kicks off. She certainly knows how to push his buttons and the banter between them is simply brilliantly witty.

I loved Avery her wit was brilliant and her love for food honestly had me laughing off my chair. She really knew how to challenge Lucas and I love that she went all out to help him out with his family despite wanting to hate him.

There is one scene in the book that simply had me crying with laughter and almost peeing my pants. Who would have thought a trip to the gynaecologist would be so hilarious and cringe worthy at the same time.

Everything that you could love is in this book. Friends/enemies to Lovers, taboo love from your teenage years coming back to tip your world upside down, and of course completely nutty families.

Rachel Van Dyken is one of my favourite One-Click authors and I can't not wait for the next book in the series to see what she has planned.

Cheater is a hard book for me to review. I love RVD romcoms and hoped that this would be something along the lines of the Consequences books- light, silly, fun, with a touch of heart. It had some fun moments and there are aspects to Cheater that I liked- the witty banter between Lucas and Avery, her snarkiness and sarcasm, and her friendship with Austin. But there were more issues with this book that I really didn’t care for, or understand- particularly how over-the-top and meddling his mother is, why she thought things would magically be repaired between the families if Lucas and Avery got together (this honestly completely perplexed me), and particularly Lucas’s “in your face” attitude when it came to his daily bimbos, even after Avery showed back up in his life. I wasn’t put off by the “cheating” per se, because once you get into the story you’ll understand that a little better, but throwing it in her face, after everything that happened in the past, was hard to accept.

With that said, I definitely felt a connection between Lucas and Avery. There's a lot of shared history with them, so it bothered me how glib, at least on the surface, Lucas was towards her. I did feel bad for him, to a certain extent, because of some of the things that we learn through the book, when it comes to what happened with his engagement to her sister 4 years ago. But my biggest issue, and what really held me back from enjoying this as much as I could have, was Lucas’s age. He’s 32 years old but acts more like he’s in his mid-20s. And honestly, if he had been in his mid-20s I’d have a whole different outlook on this book. It’s hard to get into detail, without giving too much of the storyline away, but I found his actions and the way he dealt with things to be very immature. Avery is 22 and he came across closer to her age instead of a grown man a decade older. I really wish he had been 25, 26, 27 years old. I feel the story would have played out much differently if he had been a younger character, and I would have more than likely really enjoyed it.

Sometimes, as much as you want to love a book it just doesn't happen- and you can't force it. Sadly, this was the case for me and the book just didn't work. I'm a big fan of RVD's so I'll just chalk this up to an anomaly and look forward to what she's got coming up next.

***Reviewed for The Book Enthusiast

Don't let the title turn you off from this book. I'm not a cheating fan but I absolutely LOVED the last Rachel Van Dyken book I read so this was a no-brainer.

I immediately hated Lucas Thorn. Just reading the blurb, made me hate the manwhore he was. And don't get me wrong, he was one - hello, he had a different girl for 6 days of the week! However, slowly but surely you start to get glimpses of why he is a "cheater" and you speculate A LOT. Fortunately for us, in this book, you find out whyemoji unicode: 263a And over the book, you start to like him and maybe even love him a little bit.

Avery Black has known Thorn for a long time - and hated him for some of it. She really has a valid reason and when he becomes her boss... oh boy.

This book is full of laugh til you're snorting times as well as HOT sexy times and some heart-melting sweetness. Amazing, amazing book 1!

Is it cheating if the women know you have a different woman for each day of the week? Lucas Thorn…always by the full name..doesn’t think so. Once a cheat always a cheat right? I loved watching Lucas grow and break. I loved Avery. Her love of food and quirky young nature was refreshing and so very RVD. The family angst, the fun, the building story of lies. These two really dig themselves in deep. You will love to hate Lucas Thorn!

Lucas will steal your heart and Avery will fill it. Lucas’ faith in love was broken years ago. He created his own grave. But circumstances are never what they appear. A fun filled page turner.

The family, oh geez, the crazy families. Rachel is such a great writer of crazy, crazy family members. Normal just isn't in their vocabulary. A Flirty, 'it can't be love', swoony swoon, roller coaster ride of 'weeee, weeee, weeee all the way home'!

Don’t hold this title against this book. I was hesitant at first to read this book but OMG this was a really good read. The prologue will draw you in immediately and what you think you know, isn’t what is going on at all. It sets the stage for how the book will start off and the emotions that rifle throughout. Note this is an unconventional love story which is a good change that I have been looking for.
Lucas Thorn has a reputation as a cheater—some say its well-deserved, others say this isn’t him at all. But Lucas does whatever he can nowadays to live up to the rep he has of a tomcat. He does make sure the ladies all know the rules before he crawls into bed with a woman and never stays with the same woman twice. He doesn’t want there to be any hurt feelings on anyone’s part. He’s been there before and doesn’t want to go down that road again. He lives alone yet has his hookups..that is his penance for what happened. For what he was unable to fix on that night long ago and his determination to never revisit the past until the past comes back to haunt him in the flesh.

Avery Black is haunted by the memories of that long ago time when she was secretly in love with a man who was supposedly in love with her older sister and a man who was supposedly her friend. Until everything blew up in her face when she caught that guy in a very compromising position with another woman on the night he was supposed to marry her sister. 5 years since all that went down yet now Avery is in a position where she will be working in the internship position for this man, this former best friend and her secret crush. If she only didn’t need this job.
There is so much angst told with a touch of wistfulness to it. There is also a bitter aftertaste of betrayal flavored with heartbreak on both sides. But there is this attraction that flavors the MC interactions. Lucas doesn’t make excuses for what happened and he definitely took ownership for what happened but he never talked to his supposed friend Avery about it at the time and tried to explain and there comes the anguish. For we will never know what could have been for them if Lucas his just tried to speak, to get his feelings across. Avery is one woman you root for and I definitely did so.
This is a fast and easy read. It was one that I much enjoyed= a beautiful 2nd chance romance novel with themes of forgiveness, jealousy, sibling rivalry and love. I am so looking forward for Thatch’s story next.

My rating: 4.5 stars ****
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4.5 Stars

…this couldn’t happen! Not only because he was my boss.
He literally slept with other women.
ON PURPOSE.
And they knew about it.
Besides, he cheated on my sister!
I knew what he was capable of.
I would not be that girl.

Okay, I’m going to start by saying that I know that this is going to be one of those books that people are either going to love or they’re going to hate. I think there’s going to be very little room for in between with this one. Personally? I loved it! I thought that it was pure RVD goodness and I loved that she took a risk by writing a hero who had such a skewed moral compass and who was a serious manwhore. I’ve read plenty of books with a manwhoring hero, but none of them were quite like Lucas Thorn. I mean, the title pretty much says it all, however, it doesn’t take long to realize that there’s way more beneath the surface and more to the story than Lucas might want you to believe. I loved that RVD was still able to spin this story into a sweet and funny romance and actually make me believe that Lucas was a decent guy who just went to the extreme to try to compensate for an unfortunate incident that basically caused his world to implode a few years earlier.

“The Lucas Thorn effect doesn’t work on me, sorry.”
“It does, you just won’t admit it.”

As the blurb indicates, Lucas Thorn finds himself in a pretty disastrous situation on the night before his wedding. It not only breaks up his engagement but it also tears apart his and his ex-fiancée’s families and earns him the reputation of a cheater. In the years that follows he’s fallen into a mutually beneficial arrangement where he doesn’t commit to any one girl, but rather he secures different women, one for each day of the week. The way he sees it, if they all know about it, it’s not cheating and this way he won’t be allowing anyone to get too close and risk disappointing anyone again. This arrangement is working great for him, until sexy and spunky Avery Black shows up in his office as his new assistant. Once inseparable, Avery has spent the last four years hating Lucas Thorn for breaking his sister’s heart. As much as she tries to make his life a living hell, she can’t fight off the attraction that still sizzles between her and her childhood crush. Avery knows she’d be a fool to let Lucas in again, but the more she’s around him, the harder he is to resist. You know what they say, once a cheater, always a cheater. But can a tiger change his stripes? Could Avery be the one woman who can get the infamous Lucas Thorn to become a one woman man?

I think that RVD shines when she lets loose with the witty banter and over the top antics. If you’re looking for a 100% believable scenario, this might not be for you. But if you’re looking for fun and light and sometimes silly, then you need to check this out. The constant back and forth between Avery and Lucas will have you in stitches and then when you add in their crazy families, be prepared to laugh again and again! This book is a bit of a friends to enemies to friends to lovers story and I loved the animosity between these two that was clearly born out of sexual attraction and eventually love. Throughout all of the silliness, though, there is the whole moral quandary of Lucas’ lifestyle and I really liked how RVD dealt with it and worked through it with these characters. If the “cheating” aspect is making you hesitant to try this book out, I really think you should give it a shot. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised! I really enjoyed this book and I look forward to reading Thatch’s story later this year!

And now?
He held all the power. Lucas Thorn . . . could destroy me.
“Stay.” He brushed a soft kiss across my lower lip. “I want you to stay.”

Let me say this. I hate books about cheating, books that contain cheating and everything along those lines. So I will say, this book is nothing like i expected. I was so wary as like I said above I hate cheating. I trusted in this author because I absolutely love all her work! And that paid off because this book was EPIC!

The hero has issues and as we delve deeper into the book we come to understand him and his attitude a lot. The heroine also has issues that mainly revolve around her hate for the hero lol.

Throughout the whole book we can literally feel the connection between these two characters, they have so much chemistry and sexual tension I think we all felt it. The plot was original and kept me hooked beginning to end and has left me gagging for the next in the series. This author is and probably will always be and automatic buy for me!

Cheating…..it’s never pretty. It destroys the lives of so many people that are involved. For Lucas Thorn – his cheating ways lead to the end of a soon-to-be marriage. To make matters worse, Lucas woke up in the bed of his fiancée’s sister. Talk about awkward moments.

Stained by the defining moment from his past, Lucas now has a sort of revolving door where his dating life is concerned. A different lady graces his presence each day of the week on a revolving schedule. Many would find this deplorable. However – Lucas looks at it as you can’t cheat when all parties know about one another. Right? If only it were that simple…..

After a lay-off, Avery Black finds herself back in an intern position. The bottom of the totem pole in the business world. What she could not have prepared for was discovering her boss was none other than the ‘cheater’ that destroyed her entire family when he slept with both of her sisters. Avery should be furious when she realizes that she will answer to the one person that makes her want to flee from what is ‘right’.

Avery always had a soft spot for Lucas. Well – one might say she even harbored a strong crush on the man that should have been married to her sister. Now – Avery is faced with that same attraction that she felt as a teen for the man that was never hers. With the string of women that revolve in Lucas’ life, Avery discovers that maybe her feelings for Lucas weren’t so innocent after all. The only question is what is she going to do about it?

Knowing how much Rachel Van Dyken puts into creative story plots, I just couldn’t wait to unravel what she had in store for readers with Cheater. With a title like that….I knew it would be full of delicious and juicy moments. I definitely wasn’t disappointed.

Don’t expect a ‘typical’ story about cheating in the book. Rachel pulls out all the stops and gives us a story riddles with a forbidden romance, and some seriously hilarious laugh out loud moments. Each more captivating than the next. There were so many times I just busted out laughing at the craziness that is Lucas Thorn!! Avery and Lucas find themselves in so many situations that are hard to believe, yet I found myself saying ‘can you imagine’ over and over again. I loved the chemistry between Avery and Lucas, and was rooting for them throughout the entire book!!