Dylan Stone and Serena Fields have been best of friends their entire lives. For Dylan, she’s the solid, dependable woman in his life. His person. The one who has been there for him through the best and worst of times and doesn’t see him for the millions he has in the bank. And even though he’s been secretly attracted to her for years, there are some lines that best friends don’t cross—even if he … he does spend most of their time together entertaining dirty thoughts about her that have no business being in his head.
Serena has been in love with Dylan Stone for as long as she can remember, but she’s searching for her happily-ever-after and that’s not her best friend’s thing. Unfortunately, her dating life is one disaster after another, yet Dylan is always there with a pint of her favorite ice cream and a listening ear after each and every disappointing encounter.
It’s the perfect arrangement, until one night changes everything.
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What a book!!
I absolutely loved Dylan and Serena’s story. I was pulled in to their will they won’t they relationship immediately and couldn’t stop reading until I got to the very end.
Dylan and Serena have been best friends since they were kids but for Serena it’s always been so much more than friendship. She’s had one failecd relationship after the other and the reason is that Dylan is the love of her life if only he felt the same way. When Dylan faces the future without Serena in it will he finally open up to his real feelings where she’s concerned before it’s too late.
A fabulous series from Erika Wilde and I’m sad that it’s come to and end but I’m excited to see what she gives is next.
Finally we have Dylan and Serena’s story. They may have began their relationship as children on the playground but over the years it has changed. Yes they are still best friends but they feel and see each other in a different light. I also loved the supporting cast of characters ! I truly enjoy the friends to lovers genre and they did not disappoint ! Sexy, Funny and heart warming !!!
~~Michele McMullen ~~
I loved every single thing about Tall, Dark and Tempting! The best friends to lovers troupe is absolutely one of my favorites and Ms. Wilde did an amazing job with it.
I knew when we first met Serena and Dylan they were perfect for each other. The fact they had grown up as best friends, yet both developed bigger feelings and never shared those feelings with each other for years had me laughing out loud. I loved Dylan stocked Serena’s favorite ice cream for when some guy she dated turned out to be an idiot.
When they finally give into their attraction to one another, they are so freaking hot together!!!! I mean I seriously loved their chemistry together. Of course the fact that there is a bit of freak out on both their parts after about broke my heart. They finally had each shown their true feelings for each other but fear of loss of friendship almost ruined their relationship for good.
I loved that Serena was willing to push for more first. Because of all that happened with Dylan’s parents, I knew his fears were irrational, but felt his fear and pain still. I will say the phrase”go big or go home” was totally part of Dylan’s plan once he needed to fix his screw up. OMG I cried all the happy tears as he showed Serena how much he loved her. Seriously make sure you have your tissues handy.
Tall, Dark and Tempting was absolutely my favorite book in this series! I also am super excited for the upcoming spin-off series from Erika Wilde and Carly Phillips. Two of my favorite authors writing another series of books together puts me in my happy place! I highly recommend this book to all readers who love contemporary romances!
Rating: 4.5 Stars (A)
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I read an advanced copy and I leave my voluntary and honest review.
Erika Wilde will grab you from page 1 and not let go until the very end. Ms. Wilde is exceptional at drawing out the reader’s emotions and undivided attention. Her characters are so realistic, the plot is not over the top, and the emotional pull is there from the beginning. My emotions ranged from wondering when, laughter, break out the fan sizzling, heartbreak, to my heart swooning.
Serena wants happily ever after and Dylan does not. She has been very unlucky in her search. Is he that commitment phobic that he lets Serena go? He’s so protective of her and always has her back and vice versa but he’s the one that breaks her heart this time. You have to read this amazing story to find out if Dylan makes the leap to commitment. You’ll end up rooting for him to be able to give Serena her happily ever after! I loved the 3rd book!
It pains me to give this rating to this book because I truly love everything else that I’ve read by Ms. Wilde, especially Dylan’s brother’s books. Sadly, I did not connect with these characters and found myself constantly frustrated by them. However, I do look forward to the spinoff that will be coming.
The final Stone has fallen in love, way back in high school that is. Dylan has loved Serena since forever. Serena dates a lot but none of them are the one. Then her best friend Dylan takes her to Las Vegas and they give into the chemistry that Always been there. Friends to lovers……Dylan and Serena are great and the fact that Dylan makes the Hallmark moment for her is great.
Dylan and Serena have been friends forever and one thing you don’t do is cross the line and when you keep your feelings to yourself they are likely to explode. These two are the perfect friends their for each other through every single thing in life, and even broken heart ice cream and Hallmark movies, I loved how close they were but both want different things in a relationship and all it takes is one night to open their eyes and feelings. Dylan was so pig headed I could of slapped him to open his eyes and just see. Wonderful developed characters that will melt your heart with their chemistry.
I’m a sucker for the best friends to lovers romance books and this one will not disappoint you. I’m so happy to see the third Stone brother finally getting his HEA. This is the story of Serena Fields and Dylan Stone who have been best friends since they were little kids. Serena has always been in love with Dylan, but Dylan is convinced he is not meant for love, so they have remained best friends. He is the one she turns to every time a date ends badly. He’s always ready with ice cream and the Hallmark channel. I love that! Then they take a trip to Las Vegas and everything changes after that explosive night. You’ll love how these two finally find their way to each other. Don’t miss this one.
Seriously…HOW DO YOU DO THIS ERIKA! Each book in this series got was better than the last and I really loved them all but Dylan and Serena were the best. How can you beat falling in love with your best friend when you were little and just waiting and hoping that things will change from friend zone to love zone. Phew…Vegas was hot. I loved all the silly nicknames that Dylan had for her dates. I love the way the brothers talked to each other. I think my heart broke a little when Grace was showing them her photo album. But Dylan FINALLY realized what needed to be done in the best possible way. See..those Hallmark movies are great LOL. I cannot wait to read see what happens to Eric and the boyfriend app LOL. (OH and the night at trivia night soooo funny! Dylan … Let the best man win!!!)
It’s fun, sweet and heartwarming story. It will captivate your heart from the beginning as it takes you through an emotional ride. I loved the connection and banter between the characters. I fell in love with the characters as well as you will too. Sparks fly throughout the story as the chemistry is sexy and steamy. It’s an entertaining read. Great addition to the series.
I loved this story of two best friends, Dylan & Serena, who have been BFF’S since they were kids and along the way they have fallen in love but don’t act on it because of their friendship. Serena wears her heart on her sleeve and everyone knows that she is in love with Dylan. Dylan hides his attraction for Serena better, he doesn’t think he knows how to truly love and wants Serena to only have the best and her fairytale come true, but it isn’t him. One night will change everything but will it be for the better.
A great great read with steam, a stubborn man and an amazing woman who wants to find her soulmate & love. These two were smoking and their friendship had sparks flying throughout the read. Even though Dylan was a bit stubborn, I loved how he watched over and protected Serena & showed his jealousy more than once. I also loved how Serena finally acts on her feelings and shows her courageous side. But what I loved the most was the ending, a fairytale ending for a couple who always belonged together.
*I voluntarily read an advanced copy and expressed my honest opinion*
Serena and Dylan have been best friends forever. She wears her heart on her sleeve for him and everyone knows how she feels for him. He wants nothing to do with happily ever after seeing how his father was when his mother needed him the most.
He’s fine with being her best friend until Vegas. Until he sees her in that dress and flirting and dancing with another man. He can’t take it anymore, he has to have her. The next morning is a hot mess so they go back to how it was but they can’t do that anymore either.
Will they go back to being best friends, will she find her HEA with another man or will Dylan finally give in to what has been in front of him all along before it’s too late?
What a fun read! Serena and Dylan have know each other their entire life. Serena has been in love with Dylan it seems forever but keeps her firmly in the friend zone until one night in Vegas. Dylan a commitment phobic is thrown for a loop and now has to figure out what next. Simple get the girl!
TALL, DARK AND TEMPTING is the third instalment in Erika Wilde’s contemporary, adult TALL, DARK AND SEXY erotic, romances series. This is app developer Dylan Stone, and primary school teacher Serena Fields’ story line. TALL, DARK AND TEMPTING can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.
Told from dual third person perspectives (Dylan and Serena) TALL, DARK AND TEMPTING focuses on the friends to lovers relationship between app developer Dylan Stone, and primary school teacher Serena Fields. Dylan and Serena have been life-long best friends but something has changed between them recently, something that stirs deep inside our story line hero. Having watched Serena struggle in the world of on-line dating, Dylan sets out to develops a ‘boyfriend app’ in the hopes of helping the woman that has always called to his heart but a call to which Dylan is completely unaware. What ensues is the on-going but deteriorating friendship between Dylan and Serena, and the fall-out as Dylan is unable to commit beyond their friendship as Serena wants a happily ever after, a fairy-tale and more.
The relationship between Serena and Dylan is a friends to lovers relationship, a relationship wherein Serena’s love for Dylan goes unanswered and unknown. Dylan is oblivious to his best friend’s attraction and want of our story line hero, an attraction that Dylan struggles to return. The 4ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
The colorful secondary and supporting characters include Dylan’s brothers Leo and his girlfriend Peyton (Tall, Dark and Irresistible #2); Aiden and Daisy (Tall, Dark and Charming #1), as well as their mother Grace, and her fiancé Charles, Serena’s friend Chelsea, Leo’s business partner/Dylan’s best friend Eric Miller, as well as a number of men who come and go in our heroine’s life. Eric and Chelsea’s story line is next in TOTAL PACKAGE, co-authored by Carly Phillips and Erika Wilde.
TALL, DARK AND TEMPTING is a story of friendship and love, heart break and sorrow. The premise is spirited and realistic; the romance is sexy and spicy; the characters are sassy and dynamic. TALL, DARK AND TEMPTING is a fast paced, playful and character driven storyline that will captivate and entertain.
Action packed, emotionally thrilling and sweetly sexy friends to so much more romance that will leave you breathless…. this journey has is all the feelgood yumyness that comes form knowing each other forever, the uncertainty of the choice to change things forever and the scorching hot passion that just will no longer be denied…. .Loved it!!
Serena has been in love with her best friend, Dylan, forever it seems. But she knows he’s firmly friend-zoned her, so she pines in secret. Well, not so secret, as most of their friends, even Dylan himself, know how she feels, thanks to wearing her heart on her sleeve since they were teens. Dylan has been fighting his more than friendly feelings for Serena since they were teens. But, he knows he can’t give her what she needs, deserves and wants – the whole fairy tale along with a forever kind of Prince Charming – so he plays the sweet, supportive best friend and hurts every time she comes over after each of her many relationships fails for one reason or another. But, after one night of passion together, she’s thinking perhaps they have a future, that they can combine friendship and more successfully. Dylan, though, is not done fighting his feelings, so behaves atrociously and damages, possibly ends, their relationship. Will these two ever get on the same page or are they doomed to just be best friends, perhaps not even friends, never more?
I love me a good friends to lovers romance, and let me tell you, Tall, Dark and Tempting is more than good, it’s fantastic! Dylan and Serena have so much love in their friendship that it was almost painful to see them fighting that love. Individually, they were likable and deeply interesting, but together? Whew – fire! Erika Wilde’s heroes and heroines are always fabulous but I think that she’s given Dylan and Serena something extra special because I fell harder for them than any of her past couples. I cannot wait for more from Erika, she’s one of my absolute favorite authors!
In the last book of the Tall, Dark and Sexy Trilogy, we meet Dylan Stone and Serena Fields. They have been best friends for their whole lives. They are each other’s “person”. They’ve seen each other at their best and at their worst. Serena doesn’t care that he has a lot of money in his bank account, not like Dylan’s last girlfriend. She understands him better than anyone else. Yet, they’re only friends. Because Serena wants the fairytale and that’s not Dylan.
What happens when best friends cross that invisible line from friends to lovers? Can their friendship survive intact? Will all those years of friendship suddenly disappear never to be found again? This book has it all ~ humor, anger, steaminess, surprise, hurt feelings and lots of ice cream.
Dylan Stone and Serena Fields have been joined at the hip since they were children, the moment they met they were instant friends, and have maintained that close friendship all these years. But somewhere along the way the lines started to blur and they started to admire things about one another that bordered more on attraction then friendship. But both were too afraid to admit it to one another for fear they’d lose their friendship, or the feelings wouldn’t be returned.
So when they are thrust together on a weekend getaway, and their normal border lines are lifted, the two of them give in to the attraction and decide to explore what is brewing between them. But what happens when morning comes, and they have to return to their normal lives?
Tall, Dark and Tempting is a steamy little friends to lovers story that will give you a serious case of the feels and have your tablet overheating… these two set fire to the pages! Having previously met these characters I knew a little about them, so I was excited to see how their little love connection would play out, and boy was I happy with what I found! Their story was brimming with passion, emotion, drama, and of course the aforementioned heat… which these two have in spades. Overall I’d say it was well rounded tale, the story line was satisfying and engaging, and the characters came with a real feel quality that made them easy to connect to. Highly recommend!!
I requested an advanced copy of this title from the publisher, and I am leaving my honest opinion.
This was a super sweet and sexy story. I loved Dylan and Serena so much! Their friendship was so awesome but their chemistry was sizzling hot and off the charts!! I love best friends to lovers because let’s face it, there is a reason they are best friends. They are so super compatible, have fun together and love spending time with each other. They are also always there for each other, especially with Ben & Jerry’s and Hallmark movies when Serena has a bad date. But I just love when it finally hits Dylan that he no longer wants to be just friends and how he acts when other men are interested in her.
The third Stone brother has finally fallen! Dylan is convinced he is not meant for love, real love, the kind where you have one person for the rest of your life to come home to. His best friend since forever, literally since toddlers, Serena, that is all she wants…someone to love and to love her and babies. She is on a mission to find that someone but not having any luck and after every disaster ends up on Dylan’s couch with Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and watching the Hallmark channel love movies. She is harboring a secret though, she has been in love with Dylan for years. After one more disappointing date Dylan comes up with an idea, she and a girlfriend can accompany him and Eric to Vegas on a business trip and have a “palate cleanser.” Who knew that would end up being with him! After that, the morning after changes everything, will they find their way back to a new normal or will they be over? Will they finally come to the realization they are meant for each other? This was so good and definitely worth any Hallmark comparison! Oh, how the mighty do fall…