Do You Dare? by Lylah James made me smile and made my heart ache
- Sue Menard
- Oct 28, 2019
- 3 min read
What happens when a dare goes too far?
Maddox Coulter. Reckless bad boy. Infamous playboy. My nemesis. And now my best friend.
I know he’ll never leave me hanging. He knows I'll never refuse a dare.
Everywhere we go we turn heads, but it’s not like that.
Until it is.
For one of us, anyway.
I've always known he would be my downfall. But I trusted him to catch me.
He proved me wrong.
Maddox has gone too far, and I don’t know if I want to rein him in or push us further into dangerous territory.
He tells me those three little words that I crave. Three little words I want from no one else.
I dare you.
Except this time, it's no simple dare. This could burn us to the ground.
"I dare you to fuck him."
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MY REVIEW
When Maddox and Riley bump into each other quite literally, the sparks fly. Maddox Coulter maybe Berkshire Academy’s star Quarterback but he’s also everything Riley despises. When he does not apologize, she gives him a what for and brushes him off.
When Riley does not fawn all over him, Maddox makes her life difficult through verbal sparring and pranks. But Riley does not take this lying down. Oh no, she holds her own and fires right back.
“..it was easy to hate but so damn difficult to love.”
When they finally strike a truce, they become the best of friends. Friends that are there through thick and thin. A once in a lifetime kind of friendship. A friendship they do not want to lose at any cost.
“Do you dare…?”
When their feelings start to change will they become more than friends? And if they do, will they lose the friendship and trust they worked so hard to achieve?
I LOVED THIS BOOK!
The relationship buildup between Maddox and Riley is exceptionally well done. It is not rushed and the author takes the time to build a rock-solid friendship between these two people that are hurting.
What started out as a bully type romance has become something so much more and I’m riveted. This couple together is amazing even though, throughout much of the book, they are simply friends. With that being said however, you feel the undercurrent of passion between them and you want them together soooo bad. There is also a little dark undercurrent to Maddox and it makes you wonder if he is going to do something to make their beautiful relationship turn sour.
Unlike other bully romances, there really are no triggers. Most pranks are harmless if not annoying. The way Riley stands up for herself and the revenge she took in turn had me excited. She did not take anything lying down.
GAH! Maddox has an arsenal of filthy words that made my stomach twist into knots. So sexy! There’s something more to Maddox and it intrigued and pulled me in as much as it did Riley.
This book left me breathless. It made me smile and made my heart ache. It has got to be the best book I’ve read this year. The writing is captivating and the story is filled with so much emotion and tension that you feel every second. I was swept up and completely taken with Maddox and Riley’s story. Can they ever be more than friends?
Please note that this is a duet and ended on a cliff-hanger.
I received an ARC of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lylah James lives somewhere in Canada. She is usually pretty busy but she uses all her spare time to write. If she is not studying, sleeping, writing or working – she can be found with her nose buried in a good romance book, preferably with a hot alpha male.
Writing is her passion. The voices in her head won’t stop and she believes they deserve to be heard and read. Lylah James writes about drool worthy and total alpha males, with strong and sweet heroines. She makes her readers cry – sob their eyes out, swoon, curse, rage and fall in love. Mostly known as the Queen of cliffhanger and the #evilauthorwithablacksoul, she likes to break her readers’ hearts and then mend them again.
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