Ames’ review of Down To You by M. Leighton.
One girl. Twin brothers. An uncommon triangle.
When college student Olivia Townsend returned home to help her father run his business, she never imagined a complication like Cash and Nash Davenport—twin brothers different in so many ways but with one thing in common: an uncontrollable desire for Olivia.
Cash is dangerous, sexy, and bad to the bone—a man whose kisses make Olivia forget she is playing with fire. Nash is successful, reliable and intensely passionate—and already taken. But all it takes is one soft stroke to make Olivia forget he belongs to someone else.
However, Olivia is in for a surprise. These boys have a secret that should make her run away as far and as fast as she can. If only it wasn’t too late. A sensual game between three players has begun, and it’s about to spin deliriously out of control.
I was intrigued by the blurb and looked forward to reading it. But I was disappointed.
Olivia first meets Cash when she mistakes him for a stripper. Whoops. He’s super hot and ends up being the owner of the club she’s visiting with her friends. She’s a bit miffed that he led her on the way he did, but when she goes home that night, she can’t stop thinking about him.
When she first meets Nash, she thinks he’s Cash and gives him crap about the night before. Then her roommate, who is also her cousin and Nash’s girlfriend, sets her straight. Nash is Cash’s twin – she’s getting mad at the wrong brother.
Both men are intrigued by Olivia and thus begins the story of a girl who has a history with bad boys and wants so badly for the good guy to be the right guy, except he’s taken. By her cousin.
Olivia is one of those girls that has guys fawning all over her and she has no reason why. I have read countless heroines like this recently and it made me annoyed with this book. Can I read a contemporary romance where the heroine knows she’s hot stuff but not conceited about it? So yes, Olivia is not stick-thin like her cousin and there’s something about her that gets Cash and Nash all worked up.
Olivia annoyed me. And this is why I’m disappointed in the book. She judges Cash from the get-go. She assumes he’s a bad boy because he owns a club and had a bit of fun at her expense. But he’s a successful businessman and he’s straight up about what he wants. And then she thinks Nash is a good guy because he’s going to be a lawyer, went to university. BUT Nash is dating her cousin and meanwhile he’s super flirty with her…so that kind of makes him NOT a good guy because he definitely crosses a line with Olivia. I was mad at her for judging Cash when he’s the most honest one out of the bunch (that’s saying a lot when you realize there’s a twist).
And that’s the other thing, I saw the twist coming a mile away. I am not saying anything about it, but I kind of guessed it before I opened the book up. And I didn’t even care about the cliffhanger. There just wasn’t enough here to grab and hold my attention. Plus it wasn’t that hot. Meh.
I’m giving Down to You 2.5 out of 5.
This book is available from Berkley. You can buy it here in e-format.
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