Voyeur, nounA person who gains pleasure from watching others naked.He lives across the street from me. My window looks straight into his bedroom.At first, I try to look away. But after I see him f*cking, I’m addicted.The way he does it is primal.Animalistic.He gives in to his instincts.He’s a ripped, tall, strong and dominant monster… And I want him.I can’t look away.He’s going to give me … want him.
I can’t look away.
He’s going to give me something worth watching.
But I don’t know if I can leave it at that.
I think soon, I’m going to want the tattooed, dark, muscular stranger all for myself…
USA Today bestselling author Isabella Starling presents a new dark contemporary standalone romance.
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Honestly, I don’t think I have the words to convey how much and why I love this book. I have only read a couple of other books by Isabella Starling prior to reading Peep Show, and though they were good, this book turned me into a major fan.
This book starts out down and dirty and hot AF. Pretty early on, we start to glean details about both Bebe and Miles, aided by the alternating POV. Both have suffered tragedy and trauma and struggle with coping the best they know how. Their love story is beautifully dark and twisted as they navigate around their own demons to try to find a peace that has, until this glimmer of hope they see in each other, remained elusive. Really, I feel like this story is as much about their burning hope, that neither feels they deserve, but that both have a visceral need for.
Now don’t get me wrong, This thing is also filled with some seriously dark and dirty sexiness that is guaranteed to get your juices flowing. Peep Show has more than enough kink and steam to keep knickers soaked, hearts racing, and the story balanced. No lie, this book had me wrecked. One minute I’m getting all hot and bothered and the next I’m ugly crying.
Now, let me get the technical stuff out of the way…This book is really well written. Both the story and the characters are well developed. The story unfolds naturally with no confusion as to timeline, character placement or locations. Conversations seem natural and accurately represent the character qualities and disposition that each person has. Besides a book being riddled with missed editing opportunities, and cliches, the above are the things that interrupt me being engrossed in a book. There are none of those problems in Peep Show. Again, it’s just really well written.
If romance with dark themes and graphic scenes is your thing, then you need to do yourself a favor and read this book. Peep Show opens with a bang and hits the ground running. This is a fabulous story about two dark, twisted people seeking some kind of redemption and peace while battling their demons and trying to save each other. I can pretty much promise three things will happen when reading this book…1. You will NOT want to put this down until the very last page…2. You will need tissues and dry panties…3. You are going to love this book.
(Reader Review Copy)
I love reading Isabella Starling’s books. She writes great love stories that also include some hot, filthy, and obscene bits. And Peep Show is no different. This book has a filthy af outside that surrounds the inner core of the sweet, strong, and powerful love story. You can’t have one without the other, and you get the perfect bit each time.
Miles is an artist. He takes pictures of the young women that he has been with and then superimposes them over other pictures, making something completely unique. He invites women and sometimes their men to come to his apartment for one night, and then he’s done with them. One night, he looks out the window that he has a woman leaning on and see the party girl across the street watching him.
Bebe is an It Girl. Everyone wants to be her or do her. She goes out and parties all night, every night. She doesn’t want her memories or grief to catch up to her, and partying is the best way for her to do it. When she comes home and sees Miles and a woman across the street, she is fascinated by what she sees. But when he dares her to go next, things really start to get intense.
This story is a really intense one. There are a lot of things that get in under your skin and hooks into your bones and doesn’t want to let go. You just have to keep reading to find out what happens because it’s almost impossible to do otherwise. The connection between Bebe and Miles gets stronger and stronger every page and the attraction and chemistry between them is explosive and combustible. I really wanted to have more of their story, but I’m happy I got what I did.
This was a new and unique story for me. There were many things that I liked about this story and a few that did not really work for me. It was entertaining, long, and steamy, so overall a good read. It was an extreme story with some heavy issues; it was more emotional then I was expecting.
What I liked: I liked Bebe and Miles. I thought that they were unique characters that had some interesting thoughts, as broken as they both were. I liked how they came together and how their passion was palpable. The peep show scenes were HOT and enjoyable to read. I could participate without being caught myself.
What did not work for me: Mile’s agoraphobic issue. I really did not feel like it added to the story other than as a plot device, I mean, I get the reasoning behind it and realize that it is an important issues that is prevalent in real people lives but I did not feel it in this story. There are some circumstances that they get into that worked for the story, but not for me personally (and that is purely individual based), they could be considered trigger based.
The story was fresh, new, unique and unflinching. I enjoyed reading it and was excited to realize that it was so much more than a voyeuristic story. I was worth the read if you like these types of stories or if this is your go to author.
This book was so deliciously dark and so much more! Isabella Starling has written one of the most incredible stories and the characters are so deeply developed, flawed and irresistible. My heart broke and my mind fully understood MIles and his struggles and not sure what this says about me but I wanted to be his. Bebe and her personal struggles broke my heart and left me wanting to help her and fix her. The two of them together was just dark magic!
Highly highly highly recommend this book and be ready to not put this down until the last page turn
To start, I had to take a whole day to absorb this one. This is my first full novel from Isabella, I’ve read the 2 dark fairy tale novellas, and I have to say that they didn’t prepare me for this dark enticing read. The start is a whirlwind of hot voyeurism and instead of scaring me away the intrigue pulled me deeper into the story. Miles a dark, secluded mystery man draws you in making you want to know all that makes him tick. He always gets his way as well as what he wants, which is Bebe. The “It” girl of the club scene, broken and stumbling with her perfect mask in place, is like a moth to a flame, drawn to the dominating control of Miles.
Each chapter added another layer of understanding to both Miles and Bebe, why they are the way they are, as well as building to the sexual tension and attraction between the two. Little games of cat and mouse in their “Peep Show”, until he finally breaks the boundaries his mental state places on him. It brings to light that not all scars are on the outside, and by the end I was rooting for Miles to be the man he needed to be for Bebe. I also was proud of the woman Bebe became to be strong for Miles.
I couldn’t put it down, even fighting sleep to try and get more of this story. I would recommend that this be read in the privacy of your own home as it is hard to not be effected by the intensity of the sexual contact between Miles and Bebe. I will definitely be snagging a copy of this on paperback, besides who doesn’t want a hot cover like this on your shelf?! Loved it start to finish!
There were quite a few steamy scenes in there that really had my fire going haha. Aside from that, I loved how the author thought of the characters and their personalities. Quite the original story of bebe with her life crumbling around her and miles who is trying to survive his inner demons. There were some scenes in there that made me pause and think wth but it just makes this story believable and everything more emotionally invested. The obstacles they face and the reality of their issues but fighting through it and moving forward with one another. Loved the story and absolutely love the cover 😉
Beautiful and emotionally haunting tale of two broken souls brought together by a glance out of a window. Amazing story!!
What if the person you were destined to be with was right outside your window and you didn’t even know it?
Bebe is a beautiful and sexy party girl who loves to have a good time. She usually drinks too much and sometimes takes a tiny pill that makes her forget about her problems while she is swirling around the dance floor. Of course, the men all want her and she typically takes one home every night. But not tonight. She went home alone, and her life changed forever. She went to the window and looked across to the next building where only one apartment was lit up. She saw a couple at the window and she couldn’t look away. They were locked in a hot embrace and she knew exactly what they were doing. The man was overpowering the woman and Bebe was shocked when their eyes met. He was so sexy and powerful that she would do anything to be with him. She was captivated by his piercing eyes. She had to have him.
Miles noticed his sexy neighbor immediately and he could sense that she was enjoying the show. He had spent time watching her in her apartment and he was excited that she had finally seen him. If only he could call her, hold her, be with her. But he is safe in his apartment and the idea of leaving is too much to deal with. Miles hates his solitary life, but the outside world is mean and cold and scares him too much. He is tired of the faceless women that come to him and he yearns for that one special woman who will take hold of his heart. He thinks he has found her and he must find a way to be with her.
Will Miles be able to fight the demons that keep him a prisoner in his apartment so he can be with Bebe?
Can Bebe help Miles overcome his fears so that they can be together forever?
I absolutely loved this book!! Miles and Bebe’ s love story is emotional, passionate and life changing. This wonderful story will be with me forever. This is the first book I have read by Isabella Starling, and I am looking forward to reading many more.
I’m not going to lie, this is my favorite book by Isabella. I own all her books and loved each one of them, but this one is her best by far. If you read Pet, you will know what expect with this but more. Heart wrenching by far but does redeem itself in the end. One of my favorite reads so far of the year. Amazing.
Miles and Bebe story was very emotional and beautiful at the same time..
Two broken souls with a very complicated past and different circumstances that have made them step aside from society..
Miles is a famous photographer, whom nobody knows in real life.. He likes taking portraits of nude women, in very provocative poses. He is a broken soul who’s fears and past keeps dominating his mind and won’t let him live a “normal” life.. he is handsome, hot, a gentleman but also an animal in bed .. his body is ripped and full of tattoos but still a lonely person full of fears and phobias..
Bebe was a beautiful girl, who used to be shy and introverted when she was just a kid, until she met Posy a friend that changed her life forever.. Bebe was a trust fund girl, didn’t know anything other than parties, booze and pills .. she only wanted to forget and to take her mind of the sadness and the grievance that she felt.. not even her best friend Arden could help her feel safe .. until she meat him.. the only stranger who can fix her, but she doesn’t know that, she doesn’t know the key to get back to herself is just across the street.. a handsome neighbor, who is also broken and who also needs her to be able to thrive again..
Two lost souls that eventually will reconnect and reunite and will fix themselves in someway or another or it would be their love that will fix their brokenness.. They will fight to conquer those demons.. they want to be together but their past keeps trying to separate them. Their fear, the sadness, the ugliness keeps them afraid to show their true self.
Miles desperate to run away from these feelings, hurts the most beautiful thing that ever happened to him.. but he wasn’t prepare for her to fight.. because she is not giving up, she is ready to fight for both of them because after all their love is what makes them feel alive…
Bebe is hurt and still grieving, she keeps behaving in irrational ways, that make her closest friend sad and hurt.. until everything gets out of hand and an ultimatum that she has to change or she will lose everything for good.. She didn’t thought someone was there ready to save her, he was her only hope, her only medicine, the only person who can make her feel and smile again …
The story was beautiful because in a way, you can feel the sadness and the desperation of both characters to be ok, to feel good and to be together… you can feel their constant struggle and their fears for things that maybe not a lot of people will understand.. but at the end we also can see that their love and empathy was the key for them to be able to walk that path together..
I think this book also shows, that we don’t know what other people is going through, what are their fears and struggles and we should always try to understand and walk a mile in someone else’s shoes.
There was not other option.. fear was not winning this battle .. love will conquer all no matter how.. they were always meant to be together… and i’m so glad they’re..
Thank you Isabella xoxo
So in love with Miles.. <3
Isabella Sterling has created a story like no other I have read. Miles and Bebe story will take you on an emotional roller-coaster of the best kind. They have a past, demons, baggage they view as shameful. Their story is full of self-loathing, heartache, sadness, anger, lust, chemistry and love. It was so easy to get sucked into this story and feel for them along their journey. After the first two chapters I could not put it down. I had to know what happened, what they thought next. Then there were the sex scenes, and OMG were they hot! I do not like spoilers so you will have to pick up a copy and give it a read. You will NOT regret it.