Blog Tour Review: Sex God by Marie Force

Posted May 22, 2017 by Shannon in Blog Tour, InkSlingers PR, Reviews, Shannon / 1 Comment

Blog Tour Review:  Sex God by Marie ForceSex God by Marie Force
Publication Date: May 16th 2017
Pages: 280
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three-stars

A sizzling hot stand-alone contemporary romance!
I inherited a life I never intended to live.I've upheld my responsibilities admirably.And Iโ€™ve taken care of my own needs privately...I'm biding my time until I can get the hell out of here.But I didnโ€™t count on having unfinished businessWith one of my very best friendsโ€ฆ
When a man has a certain โ€œreputation" to uphold, There can be no unhappy customers left behind.Lauren is a loose end that wonโ€™t be tied up no matter how hard I try.And I try hard. Really, reallyโ€ฆ hard.
Sex God, a stand-alone contemporary romance, is the much-anticipated follow-up to Sex Machine.

Cocktails and Books received this book for free from Inkslinger PR in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect our opinion of the book or the content of our review.

In Sex God, best friends Garrett and Lauren have to figure out if they can take their relationship to the next level without losing what they already have.

I generally love a friends-to-lovers story. ย This one seemed like it would be right up my alley and written by one of my favorite authors. ย But the romance between Garrett and Lauren fell a little flat to me. ย They’d known each other for years. ย Garrett had been there for her during the worst time of her life. ย So I’m not quite sure how he thought he could hide the fact that he was planning on leaving their small Texas town. ย And knowing how badly he wanted to get out of there, I wasn’t really sure why he even started down the path he did with Lauren.

There was plenty to love about Lauren and Garrett together, especially when he went alpha male on was determined to protect her. ย But it was the little secret that he managed to never tell his best friend that made this story fall a little flat to me. ย I still enjoyed it, but this wasn’t my favorite of the author’s books.


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Excerpt

Lauren
I walk through the wide-open space that Honey uses to shoot her Desert Babies portraits. Families come from all over Texas for her distinctive photos that feature babies in the desert environment that surrounds Marfa. In the office, I find Honey seated at her desk, feet up and keyboard on her lap. โ€œThank goodness itโ€™s just you. Iโ€™m so comfortable, and thatโ€™s a rare thing these days.โ€
Honeyโ€™s pregnant belly seems to get bigger every day. โ€œHow is my nephew doing?โ€ I drop into one of her visitor chairs.
She lays her hand over the baby bump. โ€œI think heโ€™s playing rugby today.โ€
โ€œOuch.โ€
โ€œYou said it. The feet to the ribs are my favorite.โ€
โ€œWonโ€™t be long now, Mama.โ€
โ€œI canโ€™t wait. Blake is so excited. He talks to him every night and tells him all the things heโ€™s going to teach him.โ€
โ€œItโ€™s great to see him so happy.โ€ During our senior year of high school, Blake was devastated by the loss of his girlfriend, Jordan, in a car that he was driving when a truck broadsided it. Heโ€™s never been the same, and only after he fell in love with Honey last year did he seem to recover somewhat. โ€œBoth of you deserve everything youโ€™ve got now.โ€
Honey gives me an odd look. โ€œWhatโ€™s the matter?โ€
โ€œWhy would you ask me whatโ€™s wrong when Iโ€™m saying you and Blake deserve to be happy?โ€
โ€œBecause I know you, and as much as I appreciate that, I can tell when youโ€™re upset about something.โ€
Thatโ€™s the thing about meeting your best friends in kindergarten. No one knows you like they do. โ€œIโ€™m not upsetโ€ฆ Iโ€™m anxious.โ€
โ€œAbout?โ€
โ€œI have a date with Garrett tonight. A real date, not the usual beer and wings.โ€
Honey lets out a giddy squeal and claps her hands. โ€œItโ€™s about freaking time!โ€ She puts the keyboard on her desk and drops her feet to the floor so she can lean in for closer scrutiny. โ€œWhat brought this on? We all assumed you guys decided to just stay friends.โ€
โ€œWe did. We had. Weโ€ฆ Well, itโ€™s complicated.โ€
โ€œHow so?โ€
I bite my lip while trying to decide how much to tell my best friend, who is also Garrettโ€™s good friend. โ€œWe sort of had sex six months ago.โ€
Honey stares at me, eyes agog. โ€œHow can you sort of have sex?โ€
โ€œWe did it, but it was weird and awkward and wellโ€ฆ not good.โ€
โ€œOhhhh.โ€ Honey taps her bottom lip. โ€œThis is extremely surprising in light of hisโ€ฆ wellโ€ฆโ€
โ€œReputation?โ€
Nodding, Honey says, โ€œSupposedly, heโ€™s somewhat of aโ€ฆ umโ€ฆโ€
โ€œGod in bed?โ€ Girls we knew growing up used to wax poetic about his skills even when we were still in high school. Garrett thinks we donโ€™t know this, but Honey and I are well aware that more than one tourist has come to town for a roll in the sack with the guy known as the Sex God.
โ€œYes! So, what the hell went so wrong?โ€
โ€œI have no idea. Iโ€™ve gone over it and over it in my mind a million times, but it never makes sense. I adore him, and vice versa. Weโ€™ve been hot for each other for ages. It shouldโ€™ve been off the charts. Instead, it barely made the chart, and it brought back a lot of crap from when I was with Wayne and he would tell me I suck in bed.โ€
โ€œWayne is an asshole, and you do not suck in bed.โ€
โ€œHow do you know that?โ€ I ask with a laugh.
โ€œBecause youโ€™re gorgeous and sexy and any man would be lucky to have you in his bed.โ€
The fear that Wayne is right about me has been keeping me awake at night since the disaster with Garrett. Though Iโ€™m touched by Honeyโ€™s unwavering love for me, I go with sarcasm to hide my emotional response. โ€œAnd youโ€™re not even slightly impartial.โ€
โ€œNot at all. Itโ€™s a well-known fact that men who suck in bed frequently make their partners feel responsible for their inadequacies. Clearly, Wayne passed off his own failings onto you, and you canโ€™t let him get away with that.โ€
โ€œWhere did you hear this well-known fact?โ€
โ€œCosmo. Where else?โ€
Snorting with laughter, I say, โ€œOf course. Where else, indeed.โ€ I run my hands over the skirt of my dress as another thought occurs to me. โ€œBut what if Wayne was right and I do suck in bed? What if it was my fault that it went so badly with Garrett?โ€
โ€œLauren! Stop this! It wasnโ€™t you. It was an off night. I canโ€™t stand to see you doing this to yourself. If you believe that crap, then Wayne wins, and he canโ€™t ever win. I wonโ€™t allow it.โ€
Honeyโ€™s fierce defense goes a long way toward making me feel better, but I wonโ€™t truly believe it wasnโ€™t me until Garrett and I successfully close the deal.

 

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AUTHOR INFORMATION:

Marie Force is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 50 contemporary romances, including the Gansett Island Series, which has sold nearly 3 million books, and the Fatal Series from Harlequin Books, which has sold 1.5 million books. In addition, she is the author of the Butler, Vermont Series, the Green Mountain Series and the erotic romance Quantum Series, written under the slightly modified name of M.S. Force. All together, her books have sold more than 5.5 million copies worldwide!

Her goals in life are simpleโ€”to finish raising two happy, healthy, productive young adults, to keep writing books for as long as she possibly can and to never be on a flight that makes the news.
Join Marie’s mailing list for news about new books and upcoming appearances in your area. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter @marieforce and on Instagram. Join one of Marie’s many reader groups. Contact Marie at marie@marieforce.com.

 

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One response to “Blog Tour Review: Sex God by Marie Force

  1. Sex God was a really great read. It was a wonderful mix of several tropes. Garrett and Lauren have been friends since childhood, each having secret feelings for one another. It’s also part second chance romance. They tried to be intimate once before, but failed miserably. These two characters have an amazing connection, sizzling chemistry and so much heart. They truly are perfect together. That is the part I love most about second chance romances. The discovery of new feelings, exploring it all and the realization moment, that usually hits like a lightning bolt. This was a fun, sexy read.
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