Review ~ A Perfect Ten: Forbidden Men # 5 by Linda Kage

Let your hair down, Caroline, they said. It'll be fun, they said.

I know I've closed myself off in a major way in the past year, ever since “the incident” where I messed up my life completely. It's past time I try to live again or just give up completely. But this is quite possibly the craziest thing I've ever done. In a last ditch effort to invigorate myself, I'm standing outside Oren Tenning's bedroom, I just peeled off the sexiest pair of underwear I own, and my hand is already raised to knock. My brother would disown me for doing anything with his best friend, and he'd probably kill Oren. But if I play my cards right, no one will ever know about this. Not even Ten.

Maybe after tonight, I’ll finally get over this stupid, irrational crush I hate having on the biggest jerk I’ve ever met. Or maybe I’ll just end up falling for him even harder. Maybe I’ll discover there’s so much more to my crude, carefree hunk than meets the eye.

A Perfect Ten
 

Forbidden Men # 5

By: Linda Kage

Releasing March 30^th, 2015

Self-Published

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Excerpt:

She was Noel Gamble’s one and only sister; I could not fuck her. No matter what.

Ergo, I needed to take drastic measures to keep her at arm’s length. I needed to...okay, fine. Fuck. I just needed to be me. Not really so drastic once you think about it, even though it probably seemed that way to her.

So I let her have the full intensity of Ten. I stopped watching what I said when she was around, and I let all my base, disgusting thoughts bleed out of my mouth like I usually did. I stopped smiling at her, stopped paying her special attention with little courteous things like holding doors open for her or asking her how her day went. I completely stopped being a nice guy. I backed off and pretty much ignored her, unless I could think up something crude to say in her direction. I made sure to chase other women when she was around. And I felt like shit every night I lay in bed, unable to get to sleep, because I’d relive every awful thing I’d done to her that day.

No matter how deeply my actions ate at me, though, it didn’t stop me from making her hate me and killing any soft feelings she’d ever had for me.

It should’ve been easy to accomplish. Everyone who knows me knows how fast I can piss off a woman.

But nothing about Caroline has ever been easy.

That’s the curious thing about temptation. It festers and grows. You feed that bitch enough and she morphs into craving, and then craving turns into obsession. Pretty soon, nothing in your life is as important as that one thing you want but can’t have.

I wanted her and I couldn’t have her, so I fed the temptation, I flooded the craving, I would’ve fucking nursed the obsession from my own tits if I could’ve. I made sure I got little doses of her here and there. Except something incredibly enlightening happens when you spend enough time in one woman’s company. You start noticing shit about her, little useless shit that actually begins to mean everything, like how she brushes the hair out her face—even if there isn’t any in her eyes—whenever she’s unsettled, or how she chews on the end of a pen during class whenever she’s listening to something that captivates her attention. You learn all her different laughs and know what each one means. You learn what pisses her off the most, or what makes her the happiest. You discover how smart and witty and sarcastic she is, and that her mind is almost as dirty as yours. You see how passionate she becomes when she defends those she loves, and you start to fall. Hard.

So, this is my Pathetic Loser’s confession: I am Oren Tenning and I have fallen. Hard.

Linda grew up on a dairy farm in the Midwest as the youngest of eight children. Now she lives in Kansas with her husband, daughter, and nine cuckoo clocks. Her life's been blessed with lots of people to learn from and love. Writing's always been a major part of her world, and she is so happy to finally share some of her stories with other romance lovers.

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My Thoughts:

Fan (as in me, and you, and everyone who reads this) Freaking (as in it was so good that I am freaking out) Tastic (as in one of the best romances that I've read so far this year)!

This is the fifth book in the Forbidden Men series. It can be read as a stand alone but you will miss out on the other great character's stories and some of this couple's history.

Speaking of this couple, *Swoon* Ten, our hero is filthy mouthed, sexy, sweet (shhh it's a secret), and loyal to his friends. Here in lies the problem. Noel is his best friend. Noel has a sister that is way off limits to this man whore. Ten, does not want to risk his friendship in any way but is going out of his mind with want for Caroline. I guess sometimes having something be forbidden just makes it that much more desirable.

Caroline is smart, just as potty mouthed as Ten, seductive, and uncaring for her brother's feelings on the matter. She wants Ten and that is all there is to say about it!

Ten does a great job of turning her down a few times but she refuses to accept that. She comes up with a plan to bed her man.

The rest as they say, is history!

I laughed, cried, had many ahhh moments and enjoyed living vicariously through them as I devoured their story. There was plenty of sweet and sexy too. Linda Kage did another awesome job of wrapping me around her little finger with this book.

The pace was steady, the length was "perfect" ;-), and the plot was oh so encompassing. I seriously want to dive back into it again even though I just finished it. It was told in dual POV. I so enjoyed both but especially Ten's perspective!

There are more books to come but for me, I think this will probably remain my fave. I have been craving this story for awhile and I am so happy with the way it played out.

I received an ecopy in exchange for my honest opinion. I seriously recommend  this to those of you who like romance, especially the one's with bother's best friends, or "forbidden" relationships. I thought A Perfect Ten was very aptly named and I loved it!

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