Cruel Kiss
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3.5 • 27 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A sexy one-night stand romance set in the glitz and glamorous Cruel world by New York Times bestselling author K.A. Linde...
Gavin King is not boyfriend material.
And neither am I.
That’s how our friendship works. We flirt and tease and joke, but at the end of the day, playing wingman is preferable to risking my heart.
Until I break up with my boyfriend the day that I leave for a two-week Caribbean vacation. And Gavin and I are the only single people on the island.
But remember that boyfriend I dumped?
Yeah, it’s his best friend.
The last thing I want to do is come between friends. And I swore the green eyes, wicked dimple, and chiseled body weren’t enough to convince me. But then I caught him in the shower…and he said he was thinking about me.
Now, I can’t stop picturing what I saw.
Maybe my ex doesn’t ever have to know.
Customer Reviews
3.5 out of 5
A risqué type of romance between a bi-sexual woman and her recently broken-up-with exboyfriend’s best friend. After he cancelled on their vacation plans they are the only two singles in the group. Attraction happened and they leave us on a cliffhanger of maintaining their relationship publicly when they got home, but how would the ex-boyfriend, his best friend, react to this? A bit lower paced for my interest, as well I found it difficult to relate to or like the characters.
Fast paced, entertaining, captivating
CRUEL KISS is the contemporary adult erotic prequel to KA Linde’s instalment seven CRUEL KING focusing on Gavin King and Whitley Bowen. Some of the events of CRUEL KISS cross over with, and run parallel to some of the events of Cruel Marriage (6)
Told from dual first person perspectives (Gavin and Whitley) CRUEL KISS takes place three years prior to the events of CRUEL KING. Whitley Bowen had just broken up with her boyfriend Robert minutes before set out on their Puerto Rican vacation. Whitley wasn’t feeling their relationship, and when Robert backed out of the group vacation, Whitley took a stand announcing she was going alone. Hoping fro a vacation fling, Whitley never expected to find herself with Robert’s best friend Gavin King, the man who has lusted after Whitley from afar. As Whitley continues to struggle with her attraction to Gavin King, Gavin is hoping to continue their fling upon their return home.
The relationship between Gavin and Whitley is a friends to lovers in the wake of Whitley breaking up with boyfriend Robert. Whitley doesn’t want a rebound relationship but Gavin’s heart is hoping for more. the $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
All of the previous story line couples return as secondary and supporting characters:Camden and Katherine, Anna and Court, Larkin and Sam, and Whitley’s ex Robert.
CRUEL KISS is a fast paced, quick read that sets the tone and back story for CRUEL KING. the premise is entertaining and captivating; the characters are familiar and charismatic.
At the time of review, I am not sure if CRUEL KISS will be a part /prequel contained within the Cruel King instalment.