Review: The Duality Principle – Rebecca Grace Allen

Sometimes A + B = O. Yes. Oh, yes. Just like that.

Gabriella Evans’s life exists in terms of logic and definitions. She’s holed up in Portland, Maine, for the summer to work on her PhD thesis, but something is screwing up her concentration: the rumble of a motorcycle every time the embodiment of her rough-and-tumble fantasies rides down her street.

When her best friend talks her into a blind date, she finds herself out with the opposite of her fantasy. He’s polite and well-mannered, yet something behind his crisply tailored shirt doesn’t add up—a rebellious gleam in his eye that piques her curiosity.

Orphaned at fifteen, Connor Starks has finally put the years of failing grades, breaking laws and breaking hearts behind him. The only holdover? His penchant for getting down and dirty in public places. But Gabriella makes him want to prove he’s become a better man.

Nothing intrigues Gabriella more than a problem she can’t solve. But the more Connor tries to bury his past, the more determined she is to uncover it. And what she finds makes all her trusty logic begin to fail her…

Warning: This book contains a summer romance, dirty talk, dockside kissing, motorcycles and tattoos. Features a rebellious nerdy girl with an appetite for outdoor sex and light spanking, and a bad boy who’s turned good…or at least he’s trying.

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Release Date: November 11, 2014
Publisher: Samhain 
Source: Manic Readers
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Rating: 3

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Reviewer’s Thoughts

It is very hard to give a good review without revealing spoilers, but I will do my best.

Conner and Gabriella are young adults who are at the age where they are still struggling to find themselves. Connor had a rough start and Gabriella grew up privileged but under strict expectations.

They are both very intelligent and successful but due to his past and her sexual desires, they have yet to find that special someone. The pros for me were for the most part the writing was smart, cute and sexy.  It is a sweet love story of how these two finally figure out how to accept themselves and each other.

I became frustrated after some time but then at a certain point I couldn’t’t help but chuckle a little due to the different situations that kept coming up to stop these two from finally reaching the finish line so to speak. Each time they would get a little further only to be interrupted. I did have that moment when I wanted to be able to just smack them both and yell the solution is so obvious and easy.  However, you are rewarded with the sexy writing.

I would have liked to see a little more organization with time lapses and the switching points of view because it became abrupt and slightly confusing.

Enjoyable read.