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Adrenaline pushes the heat high…
This series, with sassy, bold characters and unusual situations to find love, has been a favourite of mine. With Atlas and Mila, that trend continued with the sexy notched up even higher…
When they say opposites attract, these lovers could write the book. Their attraction, the desire that burned between them, seemed simple. Oh, no. It was anything but given their career *ahem* choices. Love doesn’t care about the wrong or right side of the law. All it knows is the chemistry and the heat. And neither Atlas or Mila could ignore it…
Was it worth fighting for? Absolutely! And it was a fight. They were both going to dig deep for answers and watching it unfold was feeling like I was right beside them…
A fan-on-high read that had everything I wanted for Atlas’ story. If you haven’t read Sparrow Beckett I highly recommend you start!
This novel was fantastic!! I absolutely love Sparrow Beckett and her exhilarating and high intensity novels fulled with sass, steam and swoons. Pushing her limits was excellent and I can't wait for her next one!!
I would like to thank Netgalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of this book for an honest review.
Sparrow Beckett is a new author to me, I haven't read her books before and I'm surprised!Seriously if you haven't read her books do it now!!I loved the story in this one a lot!Pushing Her Limits was a sexy and fast paced story!!!Mila and Atlas had some really steamy moments together and I love the tension between them!
Can I say how excited am I to start the rest books in this series?If you are looking for a great romance ,refreshing and hot to make you swoon this is perfect book!
Pushing Her Limits by Sparrow Beckett (erotic, InterMix, March 2017)
Pushing Her Limits is the third book in Sparrow Beckett’s Masters of Adrenaline series and just might be my favorite of them. I am a HUGE fan of how Sparrow Beckett writes kink and dominant heroes, so reading all of their (this is an author duo) books is a must for me. I had some trouble with the first book (Stealing His Thunder) in the series because of the fact that the hero and heroine both steal cars - and love it. The main couple in the second book start to distance themselves from the illegal activity and in Pushing Her Limits, Atlas and Mila have to deal with this because Mila is a cop.
Outside of the stealing cars part, Pushing Her Limits is a hot, steamy and kinky read. There is also a great romance with lots of sexual tension between Atlas and Mila (especially at the beginning when Atlas knows that Mila is a cop and she is trying to figure out if he is a car thief). I will follow wherever Sparrow Beckett leads!
For me, this was my favorite out of the Masters of Adrenaline series. I loved the story, I loved the sex and I enjoyed seeing how it meshed in to the other books in this series.
Focusing on the last and youngest of the three original members of the auto theft ring, we get to know Atlas Larson. And I really liked finding that there was much more to him than he was portrayed in the earlier stories. He was not your average computer geek. A huge and imposing guy, Atlas worked as a white-hat hacker and computer repair man by day, car thief by night.
But as his passion for the thrill that stealing cars gave him waned, he searched for a way to get out of that life and go straight. Meeting Mila gives Atlas the push he needs.
From the start, Atlas knows that Mila is a cop. Assigned to discover who is behind a string of auto thefts, Mila zeros in on Atlas as her target and finds a way to get close to him. But when the line between what she is doing to get to know a suspect and what she is doing to get close to Atlas as a man blurs, Mila needs to search deep to determine what she wants. What is more important: the passion she has found with being submissive to Atlas? or her career? And since they are both playing a role, how much of their relationship is real?
Watching these two get together and play was sexy and the tension was palpable. Mila and Atlas simply combusted when they were with one another. Yet, for all the steam that their sex scenes generated, I never felt the romance or affection between them. I certainly felt the attraction! I just wish I felt more tender emotions. It may have been a bit hard to spot the romance with all of the anal sex going on as a weird form of punishment. There was a lot. But nevertheless, I enjoyed the story, the soul searching these two had to do, and the realization of what was important to them.
My only true regret in the story was Fox and Addison. When I first met them in “Stealing His Thunder” I liked Fox but found Addison to be overly brash. That didn’t change in this story, but I feel as if the other characters matured around her and made her seem more juvenile and crass by comparison. Her and Fox were the same flirty couple that they had always been, but after seeing other couples grow into more mature relationships, I felt as if they devolved into caricatures of themselves and I could have done without their over-the-top sexual banter.
Regardless, Pushing Her Limits was a great addition to the Masters of Adrenaline series.
This is a 4 star read.
Why? It ticked nearly all my favourite boxes...sexy, strong female lead, intrigue, family dynamics and lust.
Atlas is highly controlling, Mila isn't sure about Atlas's needs, however she goes with them...hence the title of the book. At times I didn't like Atlas, he comes across, at times, as a selfish, rather mean man. However his inner dialogue shows a warmer side, that slowly comes through and Mila gets some of his softness, occasionally!!
Both leads are keeping huge secrets, and they come out towards the end. I cried in these chapters.
Overall, a super great read.
I dropped the one star because we, the reader, never got to hear about Mila and Atlas's 'negotiations' on how their relationship would work. It had been mentioned, the need to talk about their needs, but it wasn't included in the book