Terri and Mick, I had this book for awhile and just got a chance to read it. This was my first book from this author, the characters had good chemistry and the storyline was okay.

This book was so entertaining. I was drawn into the story from the beginning and was involved until the end. The characters were complex and interesting. I found the story to be well paced and engrossing throughout the whole book. I was invested in the couple throughout the book and felt all the emotions through both the highs and lows of the story.The side characters were such an integral part of this story as well. This is the love story i needed to read at this time. If you want an entertaining and well written book this is it for you

After reading about these two different characters teaming up and then falling for each other, you'll understand why this book is called Stud. Because Mick is a stud... when he's not infuriating. I love how bold Terri is and is not afraid to give Mick a piece of her mind. The sexual tension between these two reluctant go-getters heat up the more they bicker, banter and are all up in each other.

Terri & Mick had great chemistry and better banter. I loved how they challenged each other!

This is the first book that I have read by Jamie K. Schmidt and it won’t be my last!

I voluntarily reviewed this book.

I really wanted to like this book. I love the arrogant alpha male books (especially when the badass heroine brings them down a peg) so this seemed right up my alley. Unfortunately it just didn’t really do it for me. While the sex scenes were fantastically written, the rest of the book kind of moved at an odd pace.

The brother’s illness is never fully explained except to say it’s similar to ALS but it’s not really and they’re not exactly sure what it is, but he’s approved for an experimental drug trial? Pretty sure that’s not how that works. In order for me to participate in a fibromyalgia study, I had to have my medical records stating that I’d been officially diagnosed with fibro, not just suspected of it.

The H/h actually talked things out when they had an argument/misunderstanding, so that was refreshing.

It was a cute book but it was wrapped up too easily.

Stud by Jamie K. Schmidt has humor, heat and angst. The story is a bit far fetched but hey...that's what it's supposed to be. Love the characters and the prose. Highly enjoyable. Hot, hot and hotter!

I’ve had this book for several months now and finally got around to reading it. Although it was a short read, I had a hard time liking the characters. I liked Mick more than Terry. Terry just came across as someone weak, incintivized by all the wrong reasons. Her reasons for living a good job to take care of her brother weren’t believable. Then her insta-love with Mick felt forced. Mick’s relationship with his family was out of a soap opera. Last, there was way too much detail about the video game Terry geeked-out on. Their long chats about the video game and how to get from one level to the next and so on were the least interesting and slowed down the story. Overall, I wanted to like this book but I did not.

3.5 Stars

I thought this book was going to promising, but in the end it just didn't WOW me.

I think the biggest problem I had was that I never really warmed up to Mick (Hero). He was pretty much a jerk throughout the whole story and when we finally saw his softer and sweeter side, it was too late. Too much of the story had played out and I just couldn't warm up to him.

As for Terri....I really liked her character and she basically made this book for me. She was sassy, quirky, and didn't put up with Mick and his poor attitude. I also loved how loyal she was to her brother. She would do almost anything to help him. It was truly heart warming.

i thought the storyline was interesting and it kept me turning the page, but I will say that I thought this book could've ended like 3 chapters earlier. I felt the drama that was in the end with Mick's parents didn't need to be in there and then what the mom tried doing to Mick, I thought was over kill.

I did like how this story ended and was happy with it. I just wish it would've come sooner. I thought the pace and flow of the story worked well. Even with the extra drama, it didn't slow down the story at all.

Overall I thought this was worth the read and I think many will like the story. I just wish we would've seen the sweeter side of Mick much sooner. I would recommend this book to fans of Jamie's and who like an office romance.

This was a little bit different from the usual rich boss romance in the aspect that the love interest is a nerd which I really liked. She also had a great dynamic with her brother which I really enjoyed since you don't see that very often either. I however was not that sold on their romance and at times I felt like the way that Terri was with Mick sexually didn't really mesh with the way that her personality was written. I did still really like both of the characters and I still enjoyed reading it.

A hottie who infuriates this barista and he knows all the buttons to push

I really enjoyed this book even when I was like what is going on. This book will take you on a crazy roller coaster ride that will last until the end of the story. I was intrigued on page one and was until the end of the story. Mick and Terri will draw you into their complicated world and have you either wanting to laugh or throw your tablet. The writing was good, the characters complicated but great and the plot crazy. This made for a crazy, very well put together story. This is great story that will make you get lost for a little while and it will so be worth it. This book had some of the craziest , most out there characters I have read about in a while and loved it .Its is not the most typical read but it was worth reading .
~Lindsey

Not really my cup. The transitions were choppy. The characters were bland. The romance ok. The plot, even with the gaming references that I can relate to, didn't move me. The secondary characters weren't even likeable to me. The family was messed up and I just was not interested or engaged.

They can't all be hits. However, others have enjoyed so it may just be my perception.

Complimentary copy received and voluntarily reviewed.

Her Sassy Attitude Saves the Day

The main male character isn't much besides rich, at the beginning. He's miserable and makes everyone around him, miserable. But the woman who makes his coffee every morning isn't going to stand for being demeaned, or only ogled...

Good steam, lots of it, but somehow not the hottest or most connecting. The intrigue piece was way more benign in the resolution than the buildup. More characters deserved consequences.

This is one of those cases where I read the blurb and expected more from a novel than it actually delivered, and although it wasn't a terrible read, I found myself waffling between liking and disliking this story and its characters, which is why I cannot give it more than a 3-star rating.

The heroine, Terri Cooke, is working as a barista at The Beanery, because her brother Billy's declining health needs made it impossible to work regular hours at her chosen profession, marketing, and still get him back and forth to his physical therapy and doctor appointments. She picks up extra part-time work whenever possible to keep a roof over their heads and pay his medical bills, having no medical insurance.

Every morning for months, like clockwork, the studly, finger-snapping, rude, Mick Wentworth stops in to get his regular coffee order without ever exchanging more than a glance at Terri's cleavage, until one night when she's waitressing at an event that shortly thereafter leads them into a one-night stand, then a two-night stand, etc.. When Terri learns that there's an opening for a marketing assistant at his company, she applies for the job, but her need for flexible hours causes Mick to turn down her application. Luckily, she's serving coffee at a meeting with one of Wentworth's hopefully new and big accounts with a company that designs and makes role-playing computer video games and is planning an expansion. Mick is clueless, but Terri and her brother are avid gamers, and she manages to impress the owners of that company and land that job after all, except, now that she's his employee, the sex is over, or is it?

That's not all there is to the story, although hot sex between these two takes up at least half the book. Aside from the sex, there's the incredibly dysfunctional Wentworth family--Simon, Mick's brother who wants to be CEO, as does Mick. When Mick discovers that their father embezzled millions from the company's coffees, he has him arrested. His mother is a bitch on wheels, and he fires her. Simon is married but can't seem to keep it in his pants, and has impregnated Mick's secretary, and the two brothers keep finding new ways to gain control of the company. If this all sounds a lot like a combination of the two old television series, Dallas and Dynasty, don't be surprised, because that's pretty much what it is.

While I liked Terri's ingenuity, brains, work ethic, love for her brother, honesty, sass, snarkiness and even her smart and dirty mouth, I kept wondering exactly why she was so attracted to Mick, who, while he has a hot body and is sexy as hell, for the first 90% of the book he acts like and is a total jerk. Terri doesn't seem attracted to Mick's money, but his wealth and position make him act like an entitled ass. Yes, he redeems himself for the HEA ending, but when Mick early on tells her "You deserve better, " I found myself agreeing with him, she did.

Additionally, there were loose ends that certainly needed to be wrapped up--such as Billy's health issues, which are never fully explained beyond comparing them to Lou Gehrig's disease. What I also found myself missing was some relationship building between Terri and Mick. Aside from her teaching him how to maneuver in the role-playing game, there seemed little else beyond hot sex between the two leading characters, and while I have no problem with graphic sex in a novel, I also kept hoping for more character development between these two. All-in-all, this novel simply left me wanting more depth in their relationship, and less on-again, off-again sex.

I voluntarily read an advance reader copy of this novel. The opinions expressed are my own.

My first impression of Mick Wentworth? A man who seeks and lives for physical pleasure and nothing more. A man who doesn't do relationships or take things seriously. But also a man who is hot as sin, a man who you know is going to be able to deliver everything and more in the bedroom by what he promises with his sinful gaze. As for Terri? Well, if there is one woman who can give as good as Mick is willing to give than that woman is definitely Terri.

Terri Cooke has had to put her life on hold when she is left as her older brother's only care taker when they lose their parents and he is diagnosed with an incurable disease. A disease that is making him weaker and weaker each day. She is working at a coffee shop in Manhattan and even though she acts like she dreads it, looking forward to serving coffee every morning to the insufferable jerk who shows up at exactly 8:57 to get his fru fru drink. She may act like she can't stand him and his arrogant attitude but they both know that that's a lie. Their minds may tell them to stay away, but their bodies are telling them to give in and enjoy ;)

Mick Wentworth my look like a player, but when it comes to the company that was founded by his late grandfather he is as serious as can be. And he won't let anything or anyone tarnish its reputation. Even if that happens to be his brother or his parents. And just when he gives into his attraction to the sassy barista, he finds himself having to employ her when her immense knowledge of his new account's online game proves invaluable. But how is he going to keep his hands and mind off the sexiest woman he has ever met now that she is working for him?

This book is not for the timid! The love scenes between Mick and Terri are hot enough to burn your eyeballs! Another scorching read by Jamie K. Schmidt!

This one was HOT an fun and snarky all rolled up in an office romance with lots of chemistry. Plenty of sass and whit but definitely a plot to keep it going. Fresh banter and great secondary characters.

**Received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley**

I found this to be a better book than I was expecting. Terri Cooke’s day is only good for maybe two minutes. That is time it takes Mick Wentworth to come into the coffee house she works at get a coffee and leave. Here character though is spunky and full of life when she could be beaten down because of what is going on with her and her brother, mainly her brother. Mick though is a prick and as you get into the story you start to figure out why. Terri is the only one that does not take his sh*t and that makes him attracted to her, and that she is beautiful. When she finally does agree to go out with him on a date she tells him she is hoping that he can perform better than her vibrator home. This is her attitude and as a reader it is refreshing to read a character like that. Mick and his ad agency has a lot of drama going on and that takes up part of the book, along with her care of her brother. But when the two of them are together it is hot and full of passion. The story is good and so are the characters. A very good book.

I Loved Stud. This was the first I have read from autho Jamie k. Schmidt and it will not be the last. Stud had a great and unique plot filled with sexual tension. I loved the originality of this story. So good.

Mick is a grade-A prick. But Terri isn’t having any of that…until she does. Then she has lots of it! I knew going into this book that it wasn’t going to be groundbreaking. It was a welcome change that the struggling barista didn’t fall in love with a damaged millionaire against her better judgement. It’s nice to know that smoldering douchebags sometimes need a little help in the marketing department!

All in all, I gave this 3.5 stars, but rounded up because Terri was just trying to make a living and help out her brother. You can try to resist the witty banter, but why bother? Grab a cup of coffee from a sexy barista and read about the cocky Stud.