It was just a party. A silly little celebration with champagne and my best friends. As I blew out the candles on my divorce cake, I said goodbye to my failed marriage and embraced my future with open arms.But I didn’t know the future was going to come in the form of a mysterious stranger sitting at the end of the bar stealing glances all night. And I didn’t know at the time, but my future even … but my future even had a name . . . Dante Amato.
Over the weeks that followed, he pursued me with reckless abandon. He broke down my walls and ignored all the reasons we were completely wrong for each other. He made me feel something I hadn’t felt in years . . . something so real it terrified me.
But the moment I let him in . . . just when I began to let myself fall for this dashing stranger . . . he dropped a bombshell that changed everything.
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When I reviewed Heartless by Winter Renshaw, I said that I loved finding “new to me” authors. I may regret that because I’ve just started the fourth book by this author in the last week and I’m not getting my own writing done! I love her voice, and Dante and Maren’s story in RECKLESS, (Amato Brothers book 2) is every bit as good as the first. What I really love, now that I’ve seen it in the first three books of Renshaw’s that I’ve read, is that she adds an epilogue that takes you a bit further into the characters’ future than most books do.
The thing is, I get so invested in the story and the characters that I really want to know what happens next, and the author does it beautifully. A definite five stars for this terrific older woman/younger man romance that is absolutely perfect.
This is the 2nd book I have ever read by this author and the 2nd in the series. Although I liked this one, I did not like it as much as the first in the series. I still love the Amato brothers, and I loved the couple here. But some things in the first novel were unexpected, but this time some of the twists and turns in the story were predictable. I still highly recommend the series and enjoying it very much.
Reckless is so sweet, and hot, don’t forget hot! These Amato brothers are so sexy! Dante is Ace’s younger brother, and their brother Cristiano’s book is due next I believe.
Dante and Maren have the kind of relationship we all wish for: full of passion, companionship, genuine like (just as important as love, because you can love someone without liking them), and laughter. They meet at a bar one night, or don’t really meet, when she’s there celebrating her divorce with some friends. They’re trying to convince her to embrace her singlehood and have sex with a hot guy. She sees Dante and wants him, but when she walks up to him to say hi she notices he’s young, much younger than she is, so she walks back to her table. Thank God her friend Saige later gives him her number so he can get a hold of her.
The banter, and the sexting they engage in after he gets into contact with her is enough to set your Kindle on fire! But Maren is dead set against casual sex, especially casual sex with a guy 8 years younger than she is. Dante is persistent, though, and so sweet and sexy that she finally gives in. And it’s glorious for awhile until his obnoxious ex, and hers too, get in the way and she finds out that he hid something really shitty from her.
I love seeing Ace and Aidy back and the glimpses of the other Amato brothers. I am now waiting impatiently for Cristiano’s story.
I absolutely love this series! I am falling in love with Winter Renshaw’s books!
Dante and Maren are a great couple. He is younger than her and she has two boys. Maren’s ex-husband was cheating on Dante’s ex-fiance and to make things even more strange Dante lived next door to Maren’s ex-husband and his ex-fiance….talk about awkward!
I just loved Dante and Maren’s story. I could not get enough and once again Winter Renshaw had me engaged from the first page!
Cannot wait for the next book!!