REVIEW TOUR STOP~FIGHTING TEMPTATION By S.M. Donaldson
Daria Jones has been trying for almost seven years to get over her past. After starting college, finding an awesome group of friends and falling in love she thinks she has finally accomplished just that. When she’s drug back to face her past and the dangers that it entails, she comes to the realization that she can never have the normal life that others do. That the love of her life and her friends are better off without her.
Cade Johnson has been compared to a God on the football field. He had pretty much always been a player on and off the field. He had been called a man-whore but it never bothered him. Part of his past made him afraid that he could never truly commit to one person. That is until after starting college he meets his best friend Gabby’s roommate. He loves the feisty no holds barred person that is Daria Jones. After a couple of great years together he figures out Daria has some secrets. Secrets are a deal breaker for him. Since she won’t share her past he calls it quits. That is when they are both attacked.
Waking up to a life without Daria isn’t what Cade ever wanted to envision for himself. He has turned into a bitter lonely man. He has come to the conclusion that he’ll never have that kinda love again. Just then Daria shows back up in his life. Can they keeping fighting the temptation of their love and attraction? Can he convince Daria that she deserves love like everyone else?
This is the Third and Final Chapter in the Temptation Series.
Cade’s POV
Pulling into to Daria’s parking area, I notice all of the security cameras and a few security guards. I’m glad her dad at least took that into consideration. Considering that, if it wasn’t for his ass, she wouldn’t need all of this. Her life wouldn’t be nearly as complicated as it is.
I knock on her front door, but she doesn’t answer. Maybe she’s in the bathroom or something. I use her code after I open the door.
“Daria?”
No answer. I hear the shower running. I should wait out here, but I can’t. I think about her naked body all soapy.
I slip into her bathroom and quietly pull open the shower door. I get the biggest turn on of my life. She’s standing there with her leg on the bench, rubbing her clit. I can’t help myself
“Ahem.”
She spins around. “What the hell?”
“Would you like some help?”
*****
After we’ve both gotten off in the shower, we take our time drying each other off.
I hear a buzzer. “Daria, do you hear that?”
“Oh shit! The pizza. I forgot. It must be my security guy.”
She steps out into the hall where there is an intercom. “Yes?”
“Ms. Jones, there is a delivery from Jo Jo’s Pizza. Did you want us to send him to your door?”
“Yes. That will be fine. Thank you.”
I pull on my boxers and lounge pants. Looking over at her, I tell her, “I’ll get the door.”
She smiles, towel drying her hair. “Okay, I laid some money with a coupon thing on the counter in there. They owe me a free pizza since mine was cold and turned bottom side up the last time they delivered.”
I shake my head and leave the bathroom, pulling my shirt on at the same time. I answer the door, put the pizza on the counter in the kitchen, and search for plates and cups. I look around her kitchen, I know Daria; those things are normally in close proximity to the microwave. Jackpot.
I check the fridge to see what she has to drink. Yep just as I suspected a fridge full of Dr. Pepper. I grab a couple and set them on the table. She walks in the kitchen wearing a pair of Betty Boop pajamas. Damn, I want to rip her clothes off again.
REVIEW
I really like this series and It got the ending it deserved.
Fighting temptation is Daria and Cade's story. We finally get to learn about Daria's past and what lead her to change her name and some of the horrific things she has endured in her life before starting College. It say she had a rough time would be an under statement. She is incredibly strong to survive what she has.
"I was abducted after school one day when I was fifteen! I was beaten, raped, and left for dead in a ditch."
To get a full understanding of Daria's and Cade's story you will need to read the first two books un the series. Her family connections had lead to Cade being hurt which caused her to have a mental breakdown. For the past 6 months Daria's being handing out in the secluded mountains but now it's time to return to her life and friends (The ones she does not think she deserves to have in her life)She has a new apartment and job trying to move on with her life. Cade has been trying to doing the same thing over the summer but he just can't seems to get Daria off his mind or out of his heart. But it's not long before before there past cross and that undeniable chemistry between them begin to sizzle once more.
"He snatches at my panties, ripping them. Before I use my better judgement, my legs are around his waist and he's fucking me against the wall. AGAIN. For the second time today."
I'm happy that they worked things out. They clearly belong together.
"I figured out you can have it all; you just have to want it bad enough."
I loved the ending but the journey to terms of writing and flow to get there not so much. The writing was really repetitive and flat. I really liked the characters from the previous books but I felt no connection to them in this one not even when really bad things happens the the main character the emotions were not translated from the pages I continued to read because I really liked the characters and I wanted to see them all get their HEA and what a HEA it was plus there was a pretty good opening to S.M. Donaldson new series which I will be reading.
<3 Natasha
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About the Author
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S.M. Donaldson is a wife and mother based on the Gulf Coast of the Florida Panhandle. She’s funny, sarcastic and has been known to have a potty mouth. She’s worked in many different fields in her life but, she has always dreamed of writing short stories and books. She recently penned her first series of novels Sam’s Choice and Sam’s Fight for Freedom. She is currently working on The Temptation Series.
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