Smut A Standalone Romantic Comedy

This review was originally posted on Latte Nights Reviews. I love enemies-to-lovers romance stories! I love the angst that surrounds this sub-genre so I was very excited for Smut. The angst is all there and the tension is insane and hot! There's a library scene that had me widening my eyes and blushing. It was a scene I won't ever forget! Other than that, there wasn't anything memorable about this book. I couldn't really believe the romance this couple had. While they interacted a lot while writing their novels and going out, all of it felt very superficial and not enough depth. Ultimately, it was a fun read, but my expectations weren't fully met. As for the audio, it took me a few chapters to get used to the male narrator since he has an accent. My one complaint about the audio is that I thought Blake had a deeper voice whereas the narrator didn't have a deep voice. It took me another long while to get used to this fact. I just couldn't picture Blake having this voice so it threw me off completely. I loved the female's narration. I thought she did a great job in embracing Amanda's character. I received the audiobook from the publisher for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.This review was originally posted on Latte Nights Reviews.

Amanda and Blake are in the same writing class, and both mutually dislike each other for no apparent reason. But when they’re paired up to write a novella, they must set aside their disdain to get the work done. However they’re actually really good at working together, so Blake has an idea. Write smutty romance together under a pseudonym to make some quick money. As they spend more time with each other, they find it harder and harder to distinguish between fiction and reality. While there is nothing obviously wrong with this book, I think I read it at an unfortunate time. I recently read One Hot Italian Summer by the same author which I enjoyed so much more and couldn’t help compare the two. Smut wasn’t as well written, probably because it was published in 2016 instead of 2020. They also both follow writers so it wasn’t hard to compare them. The characters didn’t stand out in my opinion. Amanda’s the good girl that doesn’t have a sense of humour in Blake’s eyes. Amanda sees Blake as the typical arrogant British boy that sleeps around. Other than that there wasn’t much to them. The chemistry however was great. Halle really knows how to write tension and banter between characters. The romance was fun to read about. Though I will say that there are a few public sex scenes if you don’t like reading about that. I just kept thinking they were going to get caught. I thought the premise was a good one, it just didn’t go as far as I wanted it too. I thought their career took off a little too fast and the conflict was resolved too quickly that it didn’t feel realistic. All in all, while I had a good time, it’s nothing special. I’d recommend One Hot Italian Summer over this one as the characters are more interesting and has better commentary on writing/art.

2,5/5 🌟 Let's start with what I liked in this book : first it was quite well written, nothing bad stood out of it, then the pace was good too, neither too fast or too slow, finally the end was cute. But can you write something less original than this book ? I mean everything is a stereotypical of romance : the characters are fully flat : a fuck boy, sexy as hell with an enormous dick and nothing less and a nerdy teacher's pet but sexy with a big boobs girl, well great we know nothing about them. a fake enemies to lovers trope, because except judgmental thoughts they have no reason at all to hate each other. Then the story, the premise is not completely flat, I liked the idea of both characters writing with each other but there is a few chapters in the middle in which it is just sex scene after sex scene and the story doesn't move an inch, if I wanted that I would have just grabbed an erotica novella. And the ironic part of it is the characters dissing smut writers, like really, and the actual writer of the book wrote so much sex scenes that it get boring. And finally this habit of having sex in public places ?! One time ok, but this much really it got weird.

I liked this book, but I didn't love it. It is fun, sexy as hell, and has an interesting story to boot. Unfortunately, I never really connected with Blake or Amanda. I never really bought them as this in love couple. Overall, this is a cute, steamy read that definitely fits the title. I enjoyed it for my smutathon readathon as it is a very quick and easy read.

Definitely a solid Five Stars for me!

This review was originally posted on Latte Nights Reviews. I love enemies-to-lovers romance stories! I love the angst that surrounds this sub-genre so I was very excited for Smut. The angst is all there and the tension is insane and hot! There's a library scene that had me widening my eyes and blushing. It was a scene I won't ever forget! Other than that, there wasn't anything memorable about this book. I couldn't really believe the romance this couple had. While they interacted a lot while writing their novels and going out, all of it felt very superficial and not enough depth. Ultimately, it was a fun read, but my expectations weren't fully met. As for the audio, it took me a few chapters to get used to the male narrator since he has an accent. My one complaint about the audio is that I thought Blake had a deeper voice whereas the narrator didn't have a deep voice. It took me another long while to get used to this fact. I just couldn't picture Blake having this voice so it threw me off completely. I loved the female's narration. I thought she did a great job in embracing Amanda's character. I received the audiobook from the publisher for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.This review was originally posted on Latte Nights Reviews.