My heart doesn’t beat, it ticks. It’s been that way since I was sixteen years old and I caught my sister in bed with my boyfriend. I gave my heart to a boy who didn’t deserve it, then spent the next few years indulging in hard drugs and even harder sex. Life is easier when you don’t get attached. Casual. No commitments. That’s the rule. At least it was before he came along. Cash Davidson is the … Davidson is the tattooed prince who walked into the restaurant where I work and turned my life upside down. He is everything I never knew I needed. There’s just one problem Tick. Tick. Tick. He’s my best friend’s dad.Boom.
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DREAMY’S REVIEW
“Sometimes things don’t go according to plan. Sometimes life is messy and love manifests in unlikely places.”
Cherry Bomb by Carmel Rhodes is a forbidden romance lovers dream! Totally taboo with an age-gap romance that is sexy, emotional, raw, gritty, and a bad-ass heroine with a hot AF hero with a filthy mouth!
Cherry Valentine is everything I love in a heroine! A strong woman who is going through some real life stuff! She’s so real in all of her flaws and self destructive-ness. Trying to forget things of the past, Cherry is now living attending college with her BFF.
What she doesn’t expect is when she meets a HOT AF, tattooed British man while working one night…
Enter Cash Davidson!! Daddy Cash, the HOT AF, tattooed British man who has a one night stand with the sexy waitress. A man who experienced a copious amount of women, and is ready for something new and different!
What he didn’t expect was how addicted he’d get to Cherry. And what he definitely didn’t expect was finding out that Cherry is his long lost daughters’ BFF.
The ultimate recipe for a complicated ‘relationship’ full of forbidden moments with raw and real emotions and facing the fact of what role they play in each others’ lives and those it will affect.
Now… isn’t that a pretty little forbidden mess?
THIS is one of my favorite Carmel Rhodes’ books TO DATE. Everyone who knows me knows that I love forbidden romance and the fact that this is best friend’s dad too?! YES.
The writing is always phenomenal! Rhodes’ is absolutely brilliant! She is amazing at weaving a sinful tale full of forbidden goodness, sexiness, humor, drama, and real life issues! I can never get enough!!
Trust me when I tell you, PICK UP THIS BOOK! It will not disappoint! You will fall in love with the realness of Cherry and Cash, the growth and development of the main characters, the secondary characters, and the plot and everything in between!!
Five forbidden and dreamy stars:
This was a fantastic and explosive book! It was really well written and I loved how it all played out. I loved it an I would recommend it to others
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
What a great book! Love the best friend’s dad trope. Cash and Cherry are perfect for each other once you get past the age difference. I found myself pulling for them and wanting them to get their HEA. I found myself laughing at parts of this book but what I didn’t expect was to cry. The hot sex made up for the sad part, so I forgive you, Carmel. LOL. Thank you for another great book!
This was infinitely more than I was expecting. Was it steamy? YES. But there was depth and substance that I wasn’t expecting. Cherry and Cash, our protagonists, are both damaged from their pasts but are vulnerable with each other. This was spectacular.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Carmel Rhodes – you sure write some amazing big steamy material that lit my kindle UP!!! Holy cow!!! The way she created the characters, their world, and everything in between left me with quite the book hangover. I would recommend this book to any romance reader that loves a hot, steamy story that makes your heart happy!!
Carmel Rhodes always leaves me begging for more. She has created an emotional, hot read that leaves you breathless. Just make sure to read alone and you might need a cold shower once you’re done!!
Cherry and cash – characters who are real, have flaws and just make you feel connected from the first word. The storyline will floor you and leave you with your mouth hanging open. A rollercoaster of emotions with lots of twists and turns that leaves you hanging onto every word. Amazing book by this amazing author!!
I adore these type of books full of love and lust and gahhh
I dont want to say much and spoil it but if you dont do anything else READ THIS it’s the first from this author for me but damn I’m now hooked.
So bloody AMAZING!!!
Cherry and Cash made my heart go tick, tick, tick, boom! Their connection and the fire they had from the start drew me in so much that I couldn’t get enough of them.
There are just so many things about this book that make it great. Carmel Rhodes has really upped the ante for best friend’s dad books. From the circumstances on how they meet to when “everyone finds out”, everything seemed to be a fresh take on the trope. This woman has built a world that is so amazing that I really hope she writes more for some of the characters that we meet. But I couldn’t get enough of Cash and Cherry so I want her to write more because I want to see more of them.
Cherry Bomb had me on the edge of my seat wondering when and how they would get caught, to smiling like a loon at how Cash was about Cherry, to ugly crying because…well you’ll have to read it to figure out why.
I thought this was a great read! Very well written and I loved the characters, flaws and all!
Loved Cash & Cherry. The tension and chemistry was off the charts. Wish I had my own Cash, swoon. If you love age-gap romances with smoking hot sex scenes, this is the read for you.
AMAZING! A fantastic, well written read. An intense storyline that holds your attention as you get caught up in the fierce twists and hot chemistry. Plenty of excitement and emotionally heartfelt. A thrilling must read.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
A taboo read at its finest! Cherry Bomb was more than I expected especially it being the first book I have read by the author. The author drew me in with its character intense chemistry and delicious taboo loving that will have you wanting more. I was so invested in Cherry and Cash ‘s journey and their secret relationship was one that you needed to know the outcome and as their love blossoms their heat explodes to a delicious ending. A definite must read for reads who love their reads hot and delicious!
Once I started I couldn’t put it down.
Chemistry between Cherry and Cash is off the charts hot. I can’t wait to read more of Carmel’s books. I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book.
I loved Cherry and Cash’s story beginning to end. Cash was the off limit dad and Cherry was the super likable younger girl who you can’t help but root for. Cherry and Cash’s chemistry was off the charts and add in the angst and this makes for a book I couldn’t put down!
I voluntarily reviewed a advanced readers copy of this book
My favorite Carmel Rhodes book to date and honestly this is a bold statement because she’s written so many books that I LOVE. But there’s something about this book. (Cough cough best friend’s dad). Holy age gap and taboo dreams!! Not to mention, Cherry isn’t a naive virgin but a badass. Kind of a mess. A college girl with a complicated relationship with pretty much everyone in her life and particularly the men. Enter: Cash Davidson. Tattooed. British. Her roommate’s father. This is a recipe for a sexy disaster and I was freaking HERE. FOR. IT. She pushes away, he pulls her in. Maybe it’s why I love age gaps so much: the maturity of the man involved. He has his life together whereas Cherry’s seems to be on the precipice of falling apart with each turn. Their relationship is complicated and difficult and forbidden and HOT.
One of my favorite things about a Carmel Rhodes book is you’re always given an all-star cast. Even the supporting characters are well-developed and relatable and lovable and you can see how much they love the main characters. True ride or dies. All of them.
And of course, because I can’t write a review without mentioning it: the love scenes were off the charts hot. But when you read a Carmel Rhodes book, you can expect nothing less.
Five stars!!
Love a forbidden romance, and this one was real page turner. It was full of lots of hot and steamy moments.
Not knowing what was going to happen next or if the characters were going to be caught out. I was stuck to my kindle, hanging on the edge of my seat. I read it all in one go. So good!
This was new author for me and can’t wait to read more of her books
It was absolutely incredible!!! Carmel once again has outdone herself. If you like age gap and best friends dad then you will love this story! Cherry and daddy Cash have an incredible chemistry do your self a favor and go read it!!! I read it in one day I just couldn’t put it down!!!!
Cherry and Cash are so real and raw you just can’t help but root for this couple. They have the most taboo of relationship with an ago age and daddy daughter you won’t want to put down until your done reading. Read this book in less than a day and will be reading it a lot more in the future.