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A review by courtney_in_chaos
Slade by Victoria Ashley
3.0

So the story starts with Slade, who's a stripper and a manwhore who only sleeps with women once in order to not have any attachments. One night at the club, there's a new girl that he sees and just has to have. But despite basically eye-f*cking him all night, she says she's not interested. Good thing for Slade, she just happens to be the person his roommate said was going to stay with them for a week.
There's a lot of back and forth....and honestly, Aspen started getting on my nerves with how she'd be all into Slade and then suddenly snap out of it and decide she hates him, when he didn't do anything except look hot.
Essentially, most of the book is your typical "super hot manwhore who refuses to settle suddenly only wants one woman for no real reason except that he thinks she's attractive" story, and Slade is such a charismatic character that it actually works ok, and I liked it.
But the twist, where you find out about Slade's backstory, honestly kind of ruined this for me. It was a bit too heavy. And going from what he had before to a quickie insta-love relationship with Aspen, who really doesn't have much of a personality and feels like a very shell kind of character, just felt kind of cheap and not enough. Made worse when you find out more about Aspen later and how much of a doormat she really is.
I really liked the first 75% of the book. Super smutty goodness. But the last 25% was too much of a downer and just didn't feel like a satisfying conclusion to Slade's story