Unlawful Temptations

The Star-Crossed Series, Book 1

De: Alexandria Lee

Narrado por: Kelsey Navarro Foster

Breaking the rules is never without consequence. That's what Dominic Reed was to me—a devastating consequence.

It seemed harmless when we met. He needed a nanny, and I needed a job. Badly. I was the only thing keeping food on the table and lights on in our not-so-happily-ever-after home.

I thought working for Dominic Reed would be easy. I thought very wrong.

It was the exact opposite of easy. In fact, it was impossible when he was my boss, and I was his employee, and fate decided it didn't care about professionalism or boundaries. It didn't care that I was ten years younger. It didn't care that I'd built the entire foundation of my adult life on the fact that love was poison and men were the devil.

And it certainly didn't care about the wedding band around Dominic's finger, either.

No matter how off-limits he was to me or how wild and rebellious I was to him, our chemistry was heroin, and it demanded our submission despite how hard we scrambled to stop it.

I needed to stop it because it wasn't just my heart in jeopardy if I fell in love with Dominic Reed. It was my life.

©2021 Alexandria Lee (P)2023 Podium Audio

BRATTY, BRUTAL TO FINISH, AND VERY LONG TO GET TO THE POINT

The story is a good fresh look that's not the normal man is rich or the cliche dominate man. This was a fresh story. HOWEVER, just my opinion, I cannot do the bratty, constant attitude with the constant defiance throughout the story. Yes she's young which is something many younger adults do, but it was waaayyy to much of it throughout the story and constant just her thoughts.

Kelsey is a great narrator as she's one i listened to when I first started doing audible books. But the constant drawing out the last word of every sentence was toooo much. and the bratty constant voice. Which she did very well of course but it was to much.

Sorry writer

Yes, bring on the second one!

Umm, yes please! I started this series because it was free on Audible, but I will continue it because I AM HOOKED!

This book is sexy and intense! I am ready for book two!

waiting to read/listen to more

I am so grateful to have gotten 1 of 3 ALC for this book because my attention span for slow-burn romances is NOT great, lol. This book - or rather trilogy - is about Kat and Dominic, who meet when she interviews with him and his wife to nanny his daughter. The slow burn is definitely worth it, though Dom is still married by the end of this first installment. He has asked for a divorce. Kat takes care of her five-year-old sister and loses her previous job because everything in her interferes with it. Her decisions are questionable, and even if she is the "adult" in her household, she is still childish at times (which is understandable because she's young).

I will admit that Dominic was the better character in this book. I'm still waiting for Kat to grow as a character and be more mature. Dominic did everything to save his marriage before finally realizing that it had no return. He loved his daughter so much and showed it. He wants Kat to be safe, especially now that the criminal he's after is targeting her. Kat did make it difficult for him, but he persevered. Another character who made this book for me was his mom. Even when she discovered them making out and all, she saw that Kat was probably the better option as opposed to his wife. His wife is so detached from everyone and everything. she doesn't even take care of their daughter. Literally, she only made drama when she saw that Dominic and Kat liked each other.

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Thank you to booktok - age gap taboo - the nanny.. and heartfelt story! So unexpected.. and yummy

The story and emotions

An absolute pleasure to listen to. The book came to life. Worth the listen and reread.

Great story line

I absolutely love this series. It keeps you invested and entertained. I was not happy about the cheating originally but the story explains so much that you understand the main characters. I do not want to give too much away in my review. The chemistry is felt all the way through this book.

It was ok

This was a 50/50 read for me. I couldn't get into it like her other books. The main character bored me by her constant whining throughout the read. I couldn't get pass it until to a point I wanted to skip over her. I'm going to sto this series with this book.

Narrator and the banter

So I have been completely stuck on duet or dual narration. I had been putting off reading because it is single narration. However, Kelsey Navarro did a phenomenal job narrating and making it easy to differentiate between characters. She completely nailed it with the MFC voice. The only things I was not impressed with was the spice. What little spice it had was good but it was more of a slow burn without ever truly catching fire. This was more angst and longing than spice. I also that the tug and pull moments were more intense for the MMC .Although it is stated he is not the “cheating kind” it would have been nice to hear more of a moral battle for him. Although it is narrated from the MFC POV… adding more of the agonizing moral dilemma from the MMC POV would have upped the angst a new level. The cliffhanger absolutely threw me for loop as that is not my preference. I am glad that this is a series and can immediately start the next book. Worth the credit. Btw if this was duet narration … Troy Duran would be a Kick ass Dom.

LOVED DOM…CAT IRRITATES ME

I really like this book a lot and will most likely finish the series the only thing that I’m struggling to get past is Cat’s whole personality…like I applaud her for stepping up to take care of her sister but my god is she insufferable in all other aspects of her life. I understand having trauma from childhood but the way she just blatantly does whatever she wants like genuinely doesn’t care what Dom says because she doesn’t want to be told what to do even in regards to her safety is beyond infuriating because she talks so much about protecting her little sister childhood but what does she think will happen to her sister if something happens to her?! Just a dumb way to go about things for someone that is so adamant about protecting her sister from trauma…

The plot is good...just long winded

I appreciate Dom and his discipline. I even understand the struggles that Kat was going through. (Obviously, I meant plot, not scenarios if it was real life.) What I didn't like was the overstatement of the most essential things. Yes, she was immature, but some things were too idiotic to enjoy. I am all for analogies in the right spots, but it was a bit overdone. I'm hoping the next one in the series will be better.