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Taste Me

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Taste Me is a good fit for readers who enjoy erotic romance with a focus on food and family, and who appreciate a playful challenge leading to passionate encounters.

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I really hate misleading blurbs. I think that the whole twins dating the same woman at the same time thing should have been mentioned. Bryce and Brent date Aurora and they are using the same name so she doesn't even know that she is dating two different men. Should I also mention that she sleeps with both of them? The book is so bad in so many ways. She doesn't even know who the father of her baby is. And what kind of hero in a romance novel is ok with his brother doing stuff like that to the heroine? I swear this book has most of my pet peeves in it. I am so disappointed and frustrated. And WTF was going on with Brents comment "we never made love, so the baby is my brother's?", dude, you slept with her even if you used a condom.

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Aurora had no idea the Bryce she had met was an identical twin. One man she felt the need to be with every single moment and the other she would treasure as a brother. Will she ever find out that she unwittingly fell into their scheme. Sometimes you find happily ever after but other times it is a long struggle to find everything you have been missing.

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Aurora loves to create new desserts. One day when she’s in Love’s Farmers Market and see’s her fantasy man. She’s not the type of girl that has sex without knowing the man but something about this man has throwing caution to the wind and let her fantasy come to life.

Bryce is part owner of Love’s Farmers Market. He’s the serous twin about the business and Aurora’s mystery man.

Brent and Bryce are twins and when Brent challenges Bryce to find a woman to say I Love You in two weeks. Bryce has the woman in mind but she doesn’t know her name or anything about her.


Both Brent and Bryce are trying to win with Aurora but she has no clue there are two men, she thinks there both one person but she knows there’s something different each time she’s with a different brother.

Who will win the challenge and at what cost? Will Aurora figure out their twins?

At times the story was a little confusing going back and forth between the twins since one was using his brothers name but you could figure out who’s who by how Aurora felt. I enjoyed this story and can’t wait to read more by this author.

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ARC received from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Opinions expressed are my own.

Rating 2.o stars

I just was not able to get into this book for a few reasons....

Aurora is a food editor and while at a local farmers market crosses paths with Bryce their chemistry is immediately explosive & they have a quick hookup...

Things fall a bit apart for me here as we find out that Bryce is a twin - he & his brother Bent have in the past switched places with dates & have had competitions with each other as to who gets the girl ....

If the deception wasn’t there I might have been ok with the premise of the story - but Aurora is caught in the middle not understanding why at time she has this instant sexual chemistry & then it’s not there not realizing two very different people are involved -

I’m sorry to have to say I did not particularly like this book but would’ve willing to give this author another try !!

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WOW certainly a hot story. Taste Me had good characters and an unique storyline. Nicely developed plot.

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It sounded like a fun read from the description but there was not enough story line. The twin thing has been done many times. It seemed odd to me that not once did someone think about using a condom. Casual sex is one thing, I get it, but gross. Add the twin brothers to the mix and it just was not my kind of story.

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Not really my kind of book, but was an OK read. Thank you to net galley for anadvance copy of this book.

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2 what did I just read stars.
This book was just Ridiculous!! Not in a good way either, More like a soap opera way.

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This story starts with a bet! Can he win it with out losing her? Or can he win her also? Read it to find out! It's a quick and steamy read.

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This story has potential but the writing held it back. A case of mistaken identities,intentionally caused by one brother, means that the heroine is dating twins when she thinks she’s only dating one buy with polar shifts in his personality. The writing is done in a way that the reader also gets confused about who is who. Perhaps this was intended but I found it distracting because I kept flipping back to reread and try to figure out who it was.

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Quick and to the point. The love scenes were hot. Enjoyable read. It was a little confusing the whole twin thing add in an accidental pregnancy. Love the authors name.

This ARC book was complimentary, provided by the Publisher and NetGalley. I am voluntarily providing my honest review.

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DNF at 19%

This book is a hot mess. I managed to continue on when picking fruit became foreplay (and not in a good way), and I pushed past the juvenile tone of the writing, the characters, and the dialogue. But when the author chose to describe semen as "creation juice" and that when they had unprotected sex she felt it "tickling and delighting her entire being" when he ejaculated inside her, I knew it was going to be hard to finish. Still, I tried to persevere.

Only to come to the realization that the neither the author nor the editor could keep the characters straight.

Twin brothers: Bryce and Brent.

Aurora has random sex with a hot guy (Bryce) in a warehouse, but he disappears immediately after before they can exchange names. He meets with his brother and they place some kind of bet, but the particulars escape me. (There was talking about having sex with the other brother's girlfriend in university to see if the women would notice a difference.) Aurora lost her wallet and goes to find it, instead finding Brent who acts like he doesn't know her, but who may or may not have been getting it on with an employee immediately after having sexed her up. (Oh! And he introduces himself as Bryce.) Strangely enough, the sparks that she just felt with her mysterious lover aren't there. But having been caught in the rain Brent gives her a spare shirt. (Still with me?)

She goes to a dinner party and Bryce is there and introduces himself as Bryce again. He excuses himself before they sit for dinner and the name card beside her spot says Brent. She asks a waiter about Bryce, but he doesn't know a Bryce. (Still with me?) She mentions giving his shirt back at some point, but he wants to talk about the sex. (Why this comment about a shirt he never gave her gets ignored, I'll never know.) He flirts with her shamelessly, but she doesn't ask him a) why he pretended not to know her earlier, or b) why he'd apparently slept with another woman after doing her in the warehouse. His over-the-top flirting (that makes her uncomfortable as they're at a dinner party amongst other people) eventually wears her down and moisture seeps into her panties. Only she isn't wearing any panties, just her thin pantyhose. (My head hurts.)

She escapes to the host's bedroom where she strips naked to put on underwear because her dress is so tight she can't just pull the skirt up. Instead she has to undo the halter top and push everything down and off. Nope, does't make any sense to me either. (And, yeah. She's going to put on her friend's underwear. I love my friends but I'm not putting their underwear anywhere near my private parts, not matter how much bleach they use.) She gets caught by her friend, and makes up a lie about starting her menstrual cycle. Then she actually puts a pad on.

I tapped out at this point. There was no need for her to actually put a pad on. Was her friend going to check to be sure? It was a LIE.

The whole book was so unbelievable immature as to be nauseating. Twins betting on a woman? Is this high school? How utterly misogynistic in the #MeToo era. If the author can't keep the guys straight, how is the reader supposed to? And seriously ... "creation juice"?

Ugh. I just opened the book up again and apparently while she was putting on underwear, Bryce announced their engagement. I'm going to be physically ill.

Avoid this book at all costs!

I was granted an ARC by NetGalley for an honest review.

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Muy Caliente...lol! I couldn't pass up up a good pun. Insta-love is great! Steamy scenes are fun. The idea of twins angst still had me interested...What happened I didn't care for. It's a super quick read and enjoyable. I'll probably give the author another try.

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An enjoyable quirky book about Aurora Daring and her total confusion in dating/sleeping with twin brothers Bryce and Brent Love. The kicker is she doesn't even realize that they are twins. It's sexy, witty and just a fun read all the way around. Kudos to Cali Caliente!

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"Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for the advance copy of this book, in exchange for an honest review."

Loved this book very much. It had just enough sweet, SEXY & HOT romance and the storyline was great! I highly recommend!

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Loved it.
Hot and steamy enough to singe your fingertips. Aurora is a brilliant quirky lead character. Though to be fair at times comes across as a bit dense (maybe its just me! Wont divulge more as will give away the story).
I loved thd Bryce/Brent entanglement dilemna which certainly offered a different agenda then i had read before and initially thought of.
A definite must read for romance fans.

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The story opens with Aurora meeting Bryce in a framers market. There is instant attraction between them and the beginning of hot steamy scenes begin as well. You come to find out that she writes for a food magazine and that Bryce has a brother, a twin. They run a produce farm and then another part of the story begins with a bet that the other brother comes up with. He goes and during the course of the day and evening he finds and passes himself off as Bryce. Aurora starts to become confused by thinking that he has a split personality, but the sex when she is with Bryce makes her feel like she has never felt before. It is not until you get to the last part of the book that everything starts to come together for her and you the reader. Things start to be explained and once you get to the end the story is okay. My only problem is that the one twin Brett should not be acting the way he was for the age he was at. Once you get to the end you start to understand some.

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A great romance book that is very charming. First time reading from this author. A great story with relatable characters that will make you fall in love with their storyline.

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What if you met a man and he seemed kind of hot and cold? Sometimes you were attracted to him, and sometimes he was more like a brother? What if...you're accidentally dating identical twins? That's the situation our protagonist finds herself in, and the twins have no idea what's going on, either. An interesting concept but not well executed. Despite the melodramatic plot, this was honestly kind of a boring read.

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