Rowena’s review of Tease (Ivy Chronicles #2) by Sophie Jordan.
What happens when a girl who always calls the shots meets a guy who’s too wild for even her?
A born flirt and good-time party girl, Emerson has never had a problem finding a willing guy. She’s always chosen her hookups carefully, and she’s never broken her three cardinal rules:
Never let them see the real you.
Never fall in love.
Always leave them begging for more.
Then Shaw comes along. A hottie from the wrong side of the tracks, he’s immune to her flirtatious banter and come-hither smile. After rescuing her from a disastrous night at a biker bar, he doesn’t even try to take her to bed—he calls her a tease and sends her home instead. Unable to resist a challenge, or forget the sexy, dark-eyed, bad-boy biker, she vows to bring him to his knees.
But instead of making Shaw beg, Emerson finds herself craving him. For the first time in her life, she’s throwing out her rule book. Suddenly, she’s the one panting for a guy she can’t control—a guy who won’t settle for anything less than the real Emerson and who forces her to do things she’s never imagined, including facing a past she thought she’d buried.
A guy who just might leave her wanting more. . .
This is the second book in the Ivy Chronicles series by Sophie Jordan. It’s a New Adult novel and one that I really enjoyed. It was sweet and it was sexy and it was good, all wrapped up in one solid read.
Shaw and Emerson’s story isn’t an easy one but it was very satisfying. Emerson is a hard character to relate to because she’s full of contradictions. She’s portrayed as the party girl in Foreplay (the first book in the series) and yet, when you dig into her past and her story, you realize there are emotional depths where Emerson is concerned. She’s a complex character that was at times annoying and at other times so full of awesome that I came away from this book glad that I read it.
Shaw was perfect for Emerson is every way. She needed someone to have her back for once and he was the perfect person to have in her corner. Living with memories of her past and having the mother that she did wasn’t an easy life to get away from but I was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief when Emerson finally started letting Shaw in, all the way.
I loved the way that these two bickered their way toward their happily for now. The way that they were in tuned with the other was fantastic to read about and seeing the love that they came to have for each other blossom right before my eyes satisfied me more than I thought possible.
For me, I think I enjoyed this book more than Foreplay and something is telling me that as great as this book was for me, I think I’m going to love Wild even more. I’m super stoked about Georgia and Logan. I’ve been hoping that we’d see more of Logan since the first book in this series (even though he’s so young) but he’s had time to mature over the course of the last two books and I can’t wait to see what Jordan has in store for us with Wild.
This was a good, solid read. I think readers will find themselves connecting with both Shaw and Emerson and I think readers will like the story that Sophie Jordan has weaved for us with Tease. It was a fun way to spend a few hours over the weekend and I’m so glad that I read this book.
Grade: 4.25 out of 5
This book is available from William Morrow Paperbacks. You can purchase it here or here in e-format. This book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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