If you like your thrillers hot, then this is for you.

A good book with good characterisation, I would not say the most thrilling book of the year but I think was a good interesting book. A woman once not into relationship she falls hard for a man, at times you are thinking, stay away from him and others you want them to get it together.

This book felt very long however it was interesting to see how Isabel develops theoughout the story. There were points where I felt really frustrated at what Isabel was putting herself through for Mathew. It's a modern twist on the cat and mouse story

This was not for me , it wasn't really a thriller ,more erotic love story . Isabel the ' good girl ' was so weak and spineless I really didn't care what happened to her . Read to the end so I could review , but it really was a slog .

This was not at all what I expected,Unfortunately I couldn't connect with the characters and I didn't enjoy the story at all.

This book could have been better. It was pretty good and kept my attention but then it just seemed to go off the rails and I lost all interest.

Isabel Archer is the typical girl from the Midwest. Having grown up only with her mother, she has high hopes and big plans for the time after school. She dreams of a career as an actress in New York, but soon finds herself rejected in every audition and due to lack of money selling mattresses. The only moment when she can still take over a role is when she dates men she finds on Tinder. When she meets Matthew, things change, she is immediately attracted by him and definitely wants more. Matthew, too, has some kind of liking for her, but first of all, his boss needs a woman to support him in the little jobs he does for him. Isabel could be the perfect partner for these strange little games. But soon not only Isabel has to asks herself who is playing games with whom.

Carrie Blake’s debut novel starts quite interestingly and I immediately could indulge in it. However, I quickly had the impression to find some kind of prop and cliché I had read many times before. Even though Isabel was described in the first chapters as a young, intelligent and aspiring woman, she then is reduced to the dumb girl waiting for the boy to call her. She loses all her independence and there is a huge lack of motivation for whatever. From the attractive woman she turns into a pretty facade with nothing behind it. Matthew however, is simply a handsome and ruthless man who is the marionette of his boss without any will of his own.

Thus, I was a bit disappointed in the two protagonists who tell the story alternatingly. The plot itself has variations of “How do I seduce her without having actual intercourse” which was a bit too much for my liking of a thriller. I missed the real thrill and suspense since most of what happens is quite foreseeable as it is based on just a few pieces of information.

All in all, I was quite deceived by it, since most of the plot seems to be a pretext for having the characters go to bed and it strongly reminded me of “50 Shades of Grey” in the setting and character make-up.

This story... the summary, it is all deceiving. The blurb made it sound like Isabel was this <i>Gone Girl</i> woman/character, but she really wasn't. She went out on a couple of dates and lied abouy who she was. That didn't make her conniving or anything remotely exciting.

Then she met Matthew who turned out to be playing her. Obviously, Isabel falls in love with him and I just got annoyed when she was sad or crying over him. Aren't you supposed to be this femme fatale that play with men? So much for that. She fell for him on the first date.

The plot seemed just be an excuse to engage in heavy foreplay. Did they ever actually have sex? I don't know. I do know he taunted her and fingered her. After 50% I realized this book was just some mild erotica.

The story is told from two points of view: Isabel and Mathew, and I liked that.

There was not much sense on what was going on other than a vague plot that pro ided different cheesy scenarios to almost have sex.

Who was playing whom? Definitely not Isabel. And where was the thriller here? I guess that was me deciding if I should finish the damn book.

Thank you Netgalley for providing me with a free copy of this title.

I enjoyed this book. The ending was a bit wtf for me, but I enjoyed reading about the handsome, sexy Matthew, and the sexual relationship between him and Isabel. It's not really a romance novel. I'd say more erotica mystery.

First things first, this book is described as Dangerous Liaisons meets Maestra.

I did not like Maestra. I really do not like it. So seeing this book being compared to it, I already had my doubts if this was something I should even read.
I am glad I did. I really love good psychological thriller and this one delivers just that. I would recommend this book to my friends!

Word of warning, this book is reminiscent of 50 Shades of Grey, it’s an erotic thriller. One scene is so similar to that in 50 I was incredibly disappointed.

The descriptIon says Isabel goes on dates for months and changes into someone else each time to please the guy because she has a gift in reading other people, there’s only one date where this happens and it takes 3 paragraphs of the entire novel. She isn’t compassionate, or empathetic, her mom insists she isn’t a liar but she lies so much in this novel it’s ridiculous. Everything is a contradiction. I feel the author wanted to take so many routes and ended up forgetting who the character was supposed to be. She just came off as meek, careless, and pathetic. Her character is not lileable at all, she has zero redeeming qualities.

Matthew was also an unlikeable character and to be have honest the twist was so minute it didn’t make a difference in the story. Who lets a man treat her this way? He treated her like complete garbage and she just obsessed over him for hundreds of pages.

They are basically con artists in the story.

Bleh. I hate giving poor ratings but this book was not for me. If you like erotic thrillers give it a chance.

If this book had been billed as an erotic thriller (which it is), I wouldn’t have touched it with a ten foot pole. Fifty Shades of Grey left me nauseous. But here I was, reading another book where a young, impressionable woman falls under the thrall of a handsome (supposedly), wealthy man, willing to degrade herself to make him happy. But there’s no happy ever after for the characters in this book. It becomes truly dark and in doing so, redeems itself, creating a nice spin on the “good girl” and what she’s willing to do.