An older man/younger man romance sparks between a bodyguard and a witness to murder in this emotionally dark and erotically-charged tale that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Keep reading to get a tempting taste of Infuriating by Onley James, along with getting my impressions of it, then add this fourth installment in the Elite Protection Services series to your bookshelf!
JACKSON AVERY has everything in life, except somebody to share it with. But as the owner of one of the largest private security forces in the country, he’s got plenty to keep him busy until he finds ‘the one.’ After spending the last year dealing with the fallout of his best security agents falling for their clients, the last thing Jackson expects is to take one look at feisty camboy, Dayton Daniels, and almost instantly know that he’s it for him.DAYTON DANIELS has been on his own since he was just fourteen years old. He’s spent his entire life scraping by, doing whatever’s necessary to survive. A severe learning disability has left Day unable to read and forced him to find creative ways to make a living. Camming allows him to earn money while keeping his clients at a distance, and Day has grown used to keeping everybody at a distance...until he witnesses a murder and Jackson Avery walks into his life.
Guarding Day is supposed to be a favor, a simple off the books job until they find out who killed a prominent attorney, but Jackson quickly realizes there is nothing simple about Day. He’s beautiful, smart, surprising, and Jackson is all in merely ten minutes after they meet. But Day, he can’t imagine a man like Jackson wanting to spend his life with somebody like him, and he is determined to do anything to send Jackson running in the opposite direction, no matter how much it hurts.When Day starts receiving threatening emails, Jackson enlists his team to hunt down the killer. Day doesn’t want to spend the rest of his life living in fear, but every day he’s with Jackson, he falls a little harder, forming cracks in the walls he’s worked so hard to build up around himself. Can Jackson solve a murder and find a way past Day’s defenses to convince him there is such a thing as love at first sight and that everybody deserves a happily ever after, even him?
INFURIATING is the fourth book in the Elite Protection Services Series and contains age-gap, Daddy-kink, voyeurism and lingerie with a HEA and no cliffhangers.
Warning: This book contains brief portrayals of childhood emotional abuse as well as discussions of past child sexual trauma and one scene of on-page physical violence to a main character at the hands of somebody other than the main character.
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MY IMPRESSIONS OF THIS BOOK:
Having just finished, and enjoyed, another book in this series I was more than ready to start reading this one. With a compelling premise and a sizzling main couple I started reading with a smile on my face. Upon finishing though I was left a bit conflicted to be honest as the character's actions marred my feelings for them while the numerous sexual encounters left little room for meaningful growth in the relationship between Jackson and Day.
There was a lot of superficiality in this story when it came to the actual romance, courtesy of the over-the-top, erotically-charged m/m interludes that started the moment Jackson and Day met. This instant encounter seemed out of character for Jackson especially, a character who's usually so quiet and controlled. Considering Day's painful past (a past that broke my heart) you think he'd be more cautious too, but they both burned up the pages whenever they were together. While Day's difficulties living with a disability, and his past of sexual and physical abuse, drew me to him I was at times turned off by his blatantly inappropriate behavior when in public situations. I understand it was a defense mechanism, a way to keep his heart guarded, but it still turned me off at times. Jackson was committed to Day from the start but it was a bumpy ride getting him to accept the feelings Jackson had for him since only one other person ever loved him and she died in childhood. The suspenseful part of this story was well-crafted, actually gave me some chills, but the ending was a bit rushed and too easy. Through all the bumps in the road it will take all of Jackson's talents, in and out of the bedroom, to find HEA with Day but it's a journey that will keep readers glued to the pages despite the small imperfections of this story.
My rating for this is a C+
*I got this book from the author for review in exchange for my honest opinion.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE OTHER BOOKS IN THE NECESSARY EVILS SERIES: INTOXICATING | CAPTIVATING | EXASPERATING
AUTHOR INFO:
Onley James lives in Central Florida with her daughter, her daughter-in-law, son-in-law, and a menagerie of animals, both good and evil. James splits her time between writing m/m romance and mainlining dangerous levels of caffeine and attempting to maintain her ever-slipping sanity.
When not at her desk you can find her whining about how much writing she has to do and avoiding said writing by binge-watching unhealthy amounts of television. She loves true crime documentaries, anti-heroes, obsessively scrolling social media and writing kinky, snarky books about morally gray men who fall in love with other men.
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