Review: One Night of Sin – Elle Kennedy

A sexy category romance novella from Entangled’s Brazen imprint…

Sometimes it’s good to be bad…

When it comes to sex, good girl Skyler Thompson always plays it safe, choosing stable and sedate over wild and thrilling. She doesn’t do one-night-stands, but one look at sinfully sexy Gage Holt and she’s willing to reconsider. He makes her want to be bad for once in her life, and she’s prepared to take what she wants.

Danger follows former MMA fighter Gage Holt like a shadow. Despite his successes as part owner of Sin, an exclusive nightclub in Boston, Gage can’t risk getting involved with a woman, especially one as sweet as Skyler. Still, he can’t resist a taste—and it’s so damn good he has to see her again.

As addicted as he is to her, Gage knows there’s no future for him and Skyler—not with his past lurking in the dark corners of an MMA cage. But Skylar’s tougher than she looks, and she’s ready to fight for her man.

Series: After Hours #1
Release Date: August 4th 2014
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Source: Manic Readers
Reviewer: Iris
Rating: 4

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Reviewer’s Thoughts

Welcome to the world of underground MMA fighting where the rules are often bent, the winner is sometimes chosen before the fight ever happens, and not all the participants are there willingly.  This is the world Gage lives in, and it is one where good girl, Skylar does not fit and may even get hurt.

Skylar is your typical good girl.  She follows the rules, doesn’t break any laws, and does what is expected of her. Big bad tattooed Gage is a MMA fighter trying, unsuccessfully I might add, to stay on the straight and narrow. When these two characters meet you can’t help but notice how different they are form each other, but as they say, opposites attract, and these two couldn’t seem to keep their hands, or any other body part for that matter, off of each other.

Although I found Skylar’s spunk and insistence on pursuing Gage regardless of what he says endearing, I couldn’t help but compare that to how she is portrayed in the beginning as someone completely out of her league that goes on a date with a jerk because she has no other options, and find the two not to be at all in tune with each other.  It’s almost as if the author were writing about two different women.  I did prefer the spunky, independent going after what she wants version though.

I have to admit that I did devour this book.  Once I picked it up there was no way I could put it back down until I found out what Gage would do next and how far he would go to save his brother.  I absolutely loved this book and would definitely recommend it to anyone.