Reviewed by RachelBook purchased for reviewReview originally posted at Romancing the BookWhen I first read this book all it did was remind me of another recent book I had read. I so wanted it to be different. I’m happy to say it was different, just not in the way I expected it.Audrey was a firecracker, as in, she was willing to stop at nothing to get the job she wanted. She’d worked hard for years, often times being compared to her sister and was finally wanting her chance to prove her elite doctor mother wrong.Zach is trying to rise above his past. On the outside everything looks fine. He has money, success, and good looks–but there’s a secret he’s hiding that nobody knows and it has everything to do with his drug addicted mother and the poverty he grew up in.I LOVED Zach’s character, it was weird because the author almost had him weak when he was first introduced in the story and then as we got to know him he got stronger and stronger finally rising above the way he was early described as. I liked him but I wasn’t in love with him until later on in the story when he started competing against Aubrey. He was easily defined by his job in a way that was different than Aubrey, he lived for his job because his life with his mom was so stressful.Aubry on the other hand felt like she needed the job to not only prove herself to her co-workers but to prove herself to her parents. In the end both she and Zach are forced to work together.I like this.Because it means more sexual tension.And let me tell you there was some AMAZING sexual tension. It was awesome and I loved it. Zach and Aubrey’s attraction literally flew off the pages. I was ready to scream at them to finally get together and when they did I was thrilled! I expected the typical issue to happen, work found out or got in the way and they parted ways.So not what happened and honestly it had a fun little twist in the end. Hats off to the author, well done, I was smiling by the end and would recommend the story to my friends. What a good story! I won this from the Swept Away by Romance blog and it was listed as one of the top contemporary romances of 2013. I just have to agree. The plot was engrossing, the romance was nice and the characters were outstanding. Both Audrey and Zach had a past and they both had to get past that and move forward. Working together and both good at their jobs, each had misconceptions about the other. They figured out how wrong they were about the other. A clandestine romance started but it fell into love. I loved it. Just found out that there is her sister Leah's story and can't wait to read that one as well.
What do You think about La Tentation D'Audrey (2014)?
Once again, no one does realistic characters like Sarah Mayberry.
—alena
