The Patron Broken Slipper Trilogy, #1

Vivian Wood — 2021

Ballet takes everything from you.All your sweat, all your tears, all your dedication, all your time.There are no drunken nights, no drugs, no boyfriends, no distractions whatsoever.But everyone has a dirty little secret...Working as a stripper at Club Ecstasy at night is my dark indiscretion. Sexy, mysterious billionaire Calum shows up as a patron at my club. He's drawn to my provocative innocence, not realizing that I am also a ballerina in his dance company. When I dance for him, he feels something stir in his cold, dead heart.After Calum finds out my little deception, he should turn me in. After all, ballet requires sacrifice. But to my surprise, he makes me an offer I can't refuse.And now I am staring into his dark blue eyes as I dance for him privately. Trying desperately to remember rule number one of being an exotic dancer.Don't fall for your customers.The Patron is a contemporary billionaire romance from Wall Street Journal Bestseller Vivian Wood. It's full length and the first of three books in the gritty, raw, passionate Broken Slipper Trilogy.

Reviews

Mare Claes@cardanswhore

Oct 30, 2022

Pffff okay this started off not too bad. The concept is cool but Jezus the execution lacks so much. The vocabulary use is overly repetitive and also why where the dialogues so akward? nobody talks like that?? The storyline was fine until random mafias started showing up and the thing with the father trying to sell her just did not fit into the story. The characters were horrible. Kaia needs to stop whining, Calum is too arrogant and wth is wrong with honor. The story would have been fine without her. I did like the actual ballet part tho. I’m also not a big fan of open endings but whatever. This book could’ve been so good but it did not give.

maruell@maruell

Nov 3, 2021

I was hyped because of booktok and got disappointed. The concept of the story is good even though the execution is bad. I'm not satisfied with the ending. The smut has okay-ish build up even though they only did it once at the end of the book and called it quits. The scene at the end was disappointing because I felt that with Callum's personality there was going to be some kinky scenes besides the usage of toys and stripping. In the book, they mentioned that there were toys but I only read one scene where they actually used one. Some smut lines were cringey like "I'm gonna pop your cherry" like that's just not it. I honestly didn't feel the chemistry, it felt forced and there was only sexual attraction. The ending seemed rushed and basic. The antagonists of the story are dumb and basic. Please how did the mafia even enter the story line? 😭

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Cat Nunez @catxbooks

Oct 8, 2021

This was my first book by the author, I was really excited to read this story but I waited for the 3 books to come out and I’m glad I did because I’m dying to know what happens after that ending. I really loved the story, Kaia is a ballerina and at night she works at a club in order to pay her arrogant dad and just be free of him. Calum is a billionaire with a difficult past so he pays to be with women. He used to ballet too so both their worlds intertwined at ballet and the club. Calum sees Kaia and the club and she intrigued him so he kept coming back for her. She needs money so they make an arrangement to satisfy them both. At first Kaia was reluctant to it, but little by little she’s captivated by him and their relationship. The story is really steamy and I loved when Calum and Kaia were alone. They both had family problems so spending time together was a nice way to just forget about their problems. I wish Kaia were more confident in herself, her father was really abusive and she never spoke up. Now I can’t wait to read more of them and see how their story goes after what happens at the end of the book.