A wicked mouth on Mr. Wicked. This book was HOT to the 10th degree. I loved how much Grayson just wanted one thing... Jovana. If only he could put away his pride, right?

This book will grab you from the start and you will never want to leave Mr. Wicked‘s world.

Can a womanizer change his ways to get the one thing that he craves the most? Only one way to find out.

We are back with the online dating app Hooked and this time have Grayson Tanner in our midst. When a candle surrounds him no one believes in his app because if he isn’t willing to settle down why can they think he can build this app to be successful too. In comes Jovana - that on night stand he just hasn’t been able to move on from. She is a social media influencer and the perfect fake relationship.

I LOVE. A fake dating story — and one with a dirty talker — hello! He makes it extra worth while. Their chemistry if off the charts and there is no way this “fake” relationship will last on the fake side long for them at all. You just know early on they are going to cross the lines so early on.

I love the connection we get with the series from Marni. You build a story with others knowing a world where you have these side characters that add to the background but don’t have to read the stories in order and can go back and pick them up and not be terribly spoiled.

Mr. Wicked gave us extra sass, age gap, grumpy/sunshine, forced proximity, second chance, and as always such good SPICE! Marni is always a go to author for me.

Grayson Tanner is your typical bachelor, loving the single life and dating as many women as he can. Co founder of the dating app hooked, Grayson finds himself in the middle of a PR nightmare. A video of him has gone viral, toasting the joys of being a bachelor, not a good look for the creator of the marriage arm of the app Hooked.
Jovana spent one amazing night with Grayson and once it was over he made it clear there would not be a repeat, her parting shot was to give Grayson the middle finger.
But two months later she still can't get Grayson out of her head, she thought they had something special. When she is approached by Grayson's PR team to help clean up his single boy image, she agrees, after-all what is 12 months of her life if she can finally find the love of her life.
I really enjoyed this book, the banter and chemistry between Grayson and Jovana was off the charts. I loved how Jovana never took any of Grayson's crap and gave as good as she got.
I also found the spice level to be perfect for me, about a 1 out of 5.
Great read and I will definitely be reading this author again.

What can I say but once again Marni Mann has delivered another 5 star read! Grayson & Jovana are everything you could want in a couple. They are full of chemistry, banter, lust and love all in one. Grayson, the eternal bachelor, didn't know what hit him when it came to Jovana. She was only ever supposed to be one night and nothing more until he ruins his reputation, jeopardizing his company as well. A little plan to change his public persona, leads him to the one thing he never wanted......love. Marni Mann once again has done an incredible job with this couple. I am rather disappointed this is the last book in this series. I will miss these guys.

Wow, I loved this book! It took marriage of convenience and turned it on its head, I couldn’t see the plot coming at all, and I was Hooked on Jovana and Grayson’s story! I couldn’t wait to continue this book each time I had to put it down. Jovana held her own the whole story but also never strayed from who she is, while pushing against Grayson and falling in love with him. Grayson’s fall made the story that much better, as he really fought his feelings, but man when he changed he really changed.

I really enjoyed this book and can’t wait to continue to the series!

How much I loved this book ! Author always delivers ultimate alphas but I didn’t expect that Grayson will challenge my sanity so much !

I was surprised in very positive way how much different this book is than other books by this author - obviously I loved it with all my heart.
Grayson is very hard to handle but I loved that Jovanna made him pay in every way possible lol . He needed to do tons of work to win her heart and love… I’m more than glad seeing that this way wasn’t easy for him. From one side he’s stealing heart but from the other I just knew he need to take his lessons in love.

I absolutely adore how author made this story perfect - definitely one of the best books I’ve read lately.

Mr. Wicked by Marni Mann, is the second book in the Hooked Series, we meet again with our creators of the Hooked application, whom we met in the previous book, now we will get to know Grayson Tanner better, he is in the bar that he hangs out with his friends when he can't take his eyes off the new waitress, and although normally he wouldn't go after someone who works at a place they frequent, he can't help but feel completely attracted to this girl, he is determined to let her know his interest and seduces her. Although they end up leaving together, she is nothing like the type of girl he is used to, she doesn't even know who he is, and when he later tells her that he is not interested in a relationship, just having a good time, she leaves upset something that he didn't expect. After a few days he is in the middle of a trip and makes some statements that are recorded and go viral, when upon returning from said vacation he finds that for what he has worked so hard, along with his best friends, is suffering losses from dissatisfied users, that because of his statements they do not believe in the product he represents, added to this a very unfavorable article in the Boston University newspaper, makes his friends hire a Public Relations Specialist to find a solution, but the solution will put Grayson in a position that he swears never to get involved, and although he fights and opposes it, it's something he must do to solve his mistake and the person they chose may hate him, but for him it ends up being the best and the incentive he needed. Jovana Winters is a working girl, she strives to pay off the debts she acquired in order to graduate from college, she is a content creator who little by little has built a fan base that supports her and thus has obtained advertisers who have made It's a little easier to pay her debts, but she still works as a waitress in a bar to have more liquidity. It was in the latter that she met a guy who intrigued her and to whom she felt immediately attracted, and being a romantic at heart, she believed that meeting could have been the beginning of a love story, but it was not like that at all, the guy ended up being an idiot and when a story about this man ends up exploding on the social media, she feels disappointed and somewhat hurt for having misread the whole situation.
Weeks later she sees him again and it's undeniable that there is an energy between them that seems to attract them, but she is not willing to make the same mistake, only that the temptation will become greater when a marriage of convenience is proposed to her to help him to regain credibility, for this she will be rewarded monetarily. He lets her know that, even if they get married, it's all on paper, this won't change the way he sees relationships and to never expect more from him, but she with her romantic heart will be willing to risk everything to change him, even if that puts her in a position where she may ended up breaking her own heart.
I LOVED this story! If I was a fan of the author before, this story won me over even more. These are super special characters, you are going to laugh, cry and fall madly in love with them. Grayson turned out to be the book boyfriend that I didn't know I needed and with whom I didn't expect to enjoy so much, and with Jovana it was incredible how identified I felt with her. A story that captivated me from its first pages and of which I lived each of the stages of these two, who together with the other characters made this a wonderful read. Totally, and Absolutely Highly Recommended!

3.5 ⭐️

I was so excited to read Mr. Wicked, which is book 2 in the Hooked series. I loved book 1. Unfortunately, this is not my favorite.

I struggled reading the first half of the book but felt it did get better in the last half. I did not like Grayson the MMC for at least the first half. He was not only the playboy asshole which can be typical, but I struggled to find anything I liked about him. I did feel for him a few times, though, when it seemed like neither his best friends nor pr person truly listened or helped with the main situation. Also, in the first half Jovana, the FFM jumped right to insta live, and even though Grayson was very honest and up front about his intentions of nothing serious, she seemed to not listen or care. She always felt she could change him.

I liked some of the growth Grayson had in the end and the banter him and Jovana had at times.

I am still very much excited about book 3, but this one fell short for me.

I am thankful to have received an ARC from Valentine PR and Net Galley for an honest review.

Wonder where marni keeps this hot men hidden in her home. She just plucks out dashing debonair billionaires, one after the other from her magic pen and we, as readers, can do nothing but fall hard for these all consuming alphas .
Grayson is as Grumpy as a pumice stone. As stubborn and in denial as a mountain
Jovana is a ray of sunshine but some dark corners of Grayson are too far for her light to reach.
But she doesn't give up holding his hand.
I loved the raw connection, sensitive emotions swirling between them. Except it's a no strings attached pure physical need, while her heart has already been pockmarked by his past demons.

Mr wicked, Mr good times, Mr i'll fudge your brains out meets his match in emotional torture and its fun watching him eat the humble pie.
4 stars for parallel lives

Mr. Wicked is the second book in the Hooked series. This was my second read from Marni Mann, the first being Mr. Hook-Up which I loved.

We met Grayson Tanner in the first book he is a man that does not do relationships at all. The prologue opens with the guys celebrating the launch of the marriage arm of their app. A cute little waitress catches the eye of Grayson and they end up spending the night together.
Grayson is all about a one-night stand where as Jovana is ready to start dating. Things end badly when she leaves the next morning.
Grayson leaves on his vacation on a yacht with nine guests six of whom are women of course! Celebrity Alert gets a hold of some pics that get posted everywhere and are very damaging and start quite the PR nightmare. When he returns from his trip the other two guys, head of HR, in house counsel, and the head of finance are waiting for him. They have hired a PR crisis manager (Laura Day) to handle the damage this has caused. They think the only way to keep the ship from going down is for Grayson to get married, it will prove that he believes in the marriage arm of the app. After the meeting they end up at the same bar where Jovana works. Laura the PR manager notices the chemistry between the two of them and thinks they should approach Jovana with a proposal. Jovana just happens to be a social media influencer with a nice following, it could help clean this mess up. The fun has just begun with Grayson and Jovana’s story!! I hope that you enjoy it as much as I did.

helloooooo alpha hole!!!! Marni does dirty talking alpha hole like no other. the character arc//development for Grayson is chefs kiss.

jovana is such a great FMC too. Their dynamic makes for dynamite in the bedroom but also such a swooney story!!!

Grayson Tanner, a billionaire at the helm of a dating app crisis, and Jovana Winters, a vibrant social media influencer, embark on a fiery faux romance to save Grayson's tarnished image. Their on-screen chemistry sizzles, captivating social media, but their dynamics are fraught with tension off-screen. Grayson's aversion to commitment and Jovana's genuine quest for love set the stage for an enthralling dance of emotions. Their arrangement meant purely transactional, unexpectedly deepening, revealing vulnerabilities, and sparking genuine affection. The story blends scorching passion with a poignant exploration of love's transformative power, making the book an irresistible tale of unlikely love triumphing over skepticism.

Grayson & Jovana bring the heat in Mr. Wicked! There’s just something about a bad boy billionaire that gets brought to his knees by the woman he swears he won’t fall for, and no one does it like Marni Mann!

I found It hilarious that the man who was a self-proclaimed bachelor for life, fisher extraordinaire (IYKYK), nonbeliever in marriage was the one to develop the marriage arm of Hooked. He aligned the stars for himself with that one. When he epically screws himself and the business he and his best friends built, he has no choice but to depend on his one-night stand, the woman he can't get out of his head.

Grayson was a goner for Jovana the moment he laid eyes on her at the bar, even though he would say otherwise. I adored Jovana! She knew what she wanted and wasn't going to settle for less, no matter how hot Gryason was or the things he did to her body. Their banter, spice and chemistry had me wanting to reach for a fan because holy hotness...I thought my Kindle was going to go up in flames!

Yes, Marni Mann...I do love a man with a filthy mouth and a wicked tongue and you dish them up on a silver platter. Thank you!

Grayson and Jovana are deliciously wicked and must be experienced to fully appreciate. I highly recommend this amazing, 10/10 read if you love the sexy billionaires and the feisty woman they love as much as me!

Mr. Wicked - this book was a great read. Grayson and Jovana - loved seeing them get their HEA. Grayson a true alphahole - who met the right woman she captivated him from the beginning. I loved that Grayson had so much growth in the book and was able to eventually realize his feelings. I loved that Jovana was so true to herself and what she felt between them and had the patience to navigate the relationship as unconventional as it was when it started. All the characters in the book just added that much more to the story. And....so much spice.... So good!!

Thank you for the ARC, Marni.

“We don’t lose ourselves in women. We find ourselves.”

Grayson has no desire to change his life. As far as he’s concerned he has it all. Money. Fame. Women without attachments. What could be better.

Jovana is a wonderful person. Compassionate, hard working, generous. She wants a simple life. One filled with passion, love and to be shared with family and friends.

So what we have here are complete opposites. She’s falls hard. He doesn’t fall at all. Until he does…

Grayson screws up and needs Jovana to help him fix it. She’s willing, but she makes him work for it.

In true Marni fashion this one is steamy and sweet. I really enjoyed seeing Grayson open up and discover just how much better life could be when shared.

Even though Grayson is a successful businessman due to his dating app that allows others to find love that is not what he wants as he enjoys being single and intends to stay that way. When his playboy way hits social media, he needs to remedy the damage and the most efficient way is marriage however he didn’t expect it to be to Jovana, the woman he would only allow himself to spend one night with even if he might want more.

Although the evening Jovana spent with Grayson was everything she could want and more he wasn’t willing to give her what she needed so they went their separate ways. Now he is back with an offer that is too good to refuse but this time she would have some rules of her own.

Jovana’s fun and feisty personality is the perfect match for Grayson’s determination to remain emotionally distance. She challenges him at every turn which only makes their interactions that much more entertaining and the heat between them radiates off the pages.

Steamy hot right from the start. Grayson is one of the owners of a thriving dating app. He’s a playboy, forever bachelor. But after him celebrating on a yacht goes viral he has to clean up his act and show that he not only believes in love, but marriage. Our his company may lose all its momentum.

Enter in the steamy hot one night stand he can’t get off his mind. Jovana believes in a love like her parents. She thought she’d found that UNTIL Grayson announced “this is a one night thing”. But even after the hurt of that she kept tabs because she knew it could be real. So when she’s propositioned to fake date and marry Grayson for a year, she agrees.

Grayson either has a hard time keeping his hand to himself or is really good at faking attraction for the media. This book is filled with lust and desire. The characters were likable and how could you not root for Jovana.

3.75⭐️
Grayson Tanner doesn't believe in relationships which makes the fact that he is the founder of marriage arm of his dating app, Hooked that he started with his 3 best friends, all the more ironic. With the success of Hooked, Grayson finds himself a bit of a celebrity in and around Boston and that newfound celebrity has caused him to not use his own app. He finds his one night stands the old fashioned way.

Jovana is a part-time waitress in a bar where she supplements her influencer business while she is trying to make it a success. Jovana believes in the fairy tale, she is looking for a long lasting love like her parents.

When these two meet they are instantly captivated by each other, Jovana feels the chemistry and believes that it is more. Grayson sees his next one night stand and has no desire to see Jovana past their one night.

But when scandal hits Hooked, Grayson is going to have to do the one thing he swore he would never do, get married to save his company. Jovana is the woman he has chosen to be his wife, 12 months of courtship and marriage and then they will part ways and hopefully Grayson can save his company.

There were parts of this story I really enjoyed, I really liked Jovana. She was so sweet and caring, she really put up with a lot from Grayson. He is surly and demanding and not very happy with this arrangement and he takes it out on Jovana. But she stays by him and puts up with it while slowly trying to break down his walls. I also enjoyed Grayson's journey through this book, I like how he eventually stopped fighting his feelings for Jovana and let her in. And of course, this book was fantastically spicy 🔥.
The banter between Jovana and Grayson was also a lot of fun, especially in the beginning of the book.

I will say this book was a bit insta-love for me, especially on Jovana's point. I also felt like the end of the book was rushed a bit. I also would've liked a little more information on Grayson's backstory. There was a brief mention of it, but it was such a huge component of who he was that I would've liked more information on that.

This is the second book In this series, and this is Grayson and Jovana’s story.
Grayson has just successfully launched “Hooked” an app he cofounded with two of his best friends, but his life turns into a PR nightmare after some pictures of him were leaked, and he needs to redeem his image quickly. Jovana is a hopeless romantic, and is a social media influencer, and she agrees to marry Grayson to redeem his image.
This is a well written story which is easy to read, with emotions, a fake marriage, opposites attract, secrets, humor, witty banter, romance, redemption, and love, which leads to an entertaining, unpredictable, and steamy addictive page turner.
I look forward to reading more from this talented author whose work I highly recommend.

I always love Marnie's books and look forward to them eagerly. With that being said Grayson Tanner is one alpha you will love reading about. This is a beautiful, grumpy, alpha, billionaire who loves his bachelor life until Jovana appeared in it.