Rating: 4/5 stars.
Recommend?: Yes.
Synopsis: A born flirt and good-time party girl, Emerson has never had a problem finding a willing guy. She’s always chosen her hook-ups carefully, and she’s never broken her three cardinal rules:
• Never let them see the real you.
• Never fall in love.
• Always leave them begging for more.
Then comes Shaw. A hottie from the wrong side of the tracks, he’s immune to her flirtatious banter and come-hither smile. After rescuing her from a disastrous night at a biker bar, he doesn’t even try to take her to bed-he calls her a tease and sends her home instead. Unable to resist a challenge, or forget the sexy dark-eyed bad-boy biker, she vows to bring him to his knees.
But instead of making Shaw beg, she finds herself craving him. For the first time in her life, she’s throwing out her rulebook. Suddenly, she’s the one panting for a guy she can’t control. A guy who won’t settle for anything less than the real Emerson, who forces her to do things she’s never imagined, including facing a past she thought she’d buried.
A guy who just might leave her wanting more . . .
Review: Tease was a book that I have been looking forward to for almost a year, since I read the first book in the series, Foreplay. The Ivy Chronicles as a whole series will consist of three books, each one following the life of one of a group of three best friends and suite mates. The aforementioned first novel in the series, Foreplay, followed virgin Pepper, the second, Tease, followed party girl Emerson and the forthcoming conclusion to the series, Wild, is about shy southern girl Georgia. They can be read out of order consider they are companion novels, but characters from the others make appearances often.
As mentioned before Tease follows Pepper's best friend and notorious party girl Emerson. Emerson is the type of girl who will hook up with almost anyone at almost anytime, she is also very fond of her liquor. One night, in the very first chapter she is dragged out to a biker bar by a casual friend when her real friends are both busy with there respective boyfriends. It is at this bar that a series of events lead to Emerson becoming stranded at the bar, drunk, and is driven home by the mysterious cutie she had been eyeing all night, who's name turns out to be Shaw. It is from that point that Shaw becomes a rather permanent but unwelcome figure in Emerson's life as he slowly chips away the wall she build around herself at a young age and learns that it's okay to love and be loved.
Let's start with what I liked about this book: Shaw. Shaw. Shaw. He was a wonderful and complex character that ha so much more to him than you would have thought, much like Reece in Foreplay. The chemistry between Emerson and Shaw was apparent from the start the way he seemed to look into her soul with his deep eyes. Shaw also has a lot of patience with Emerson, which I absolutely loved about him, he isn't give up when Emerson continue to push him away, he in someways really earned her love and her trust. The sex scenes were on point but that is so surprise, Sophie Jordan writes some of the best In the new adult world.
What I didn't like: Emerson was so goddamn pessimistic and negative, every other chapter I wanted to strangle her. She also lets things go too far with Dhaw and then blames him, she should have stopped it... Shaw would have stopped. And her continual pushing him away, no matter how hard he tried he was never good enough until the near end of the book. Also, the Justin issue, I know she wanted to create suspense and make Emerson have issues in her past but I really found it in needed and pointless.
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