Too Good for Words

Thanks to the author for the eARC and the chance to give my candid review.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (0-5)
Steam: 🔥🔥☄️ 2 1/2 (0-5)


What I’m Starry-Eyed Over:
🤩 Total standalone in a series: Silverberry Seduction (seasoned romance). I love how the series is connected by characters in the Silverberry “book club” turned friendship/community group.
🤩 The captivating meet-scary.
🤩 When big red and scary turns big red and arousing.
🤩 The sexual tension and attraction are so good.
🤩 Opposites attract—bad boy/good girl.
🤩 Cash: reformed bad boy biker.
🤩 Penta: amazing mom, now single, because her ex-husband cheated on her.
🤩 Penta Unleashed: “Do you want to be a bad girl, Penta?”
🤩 Phony friendship/fake dating/let’s make a deal—father figure for street cred! Love it!!
🤩 That hot first kiss of reassurance—definitely turns me on.
🤩 So much emotion from Cash getting to know Elle.
🤩 The motorcycle riding. “Sorry. No grab handles on this one. You’ll have to hold onto me.”
🤩 Beautiful dialogue and descriptions of places and moments.
🤩 All the feels—the feelings of want, need, and desire. I adore how they are so perfectly what the other needs.
🤩 Gay pride representation.


What I’m Wishing/Dizzy About:
💫 Cash needs some therapy. He still seems so mentally troubled, maybe depressed.
💫 I felt shorted on some of the details of the intimate and steamy moments. It’s detailed and then maybe too suddenly fade-to-black.

Again, really enjoying the Silverberry Seductions Seasoned Romance collection and Too Good for Words is the latest story in the collection.

So great that romance authors are writing stories where the main characters are of a “mature” age! Just because someone is over 40 (or 50 or 60 or…you get the idea!), they can still be looking for that right One.

And maybe that right One comes from the least likely circumstance.

Penta is a divorced mother of four. When her youngest son, Cyril, is caught having vandalized a motorcycle shop, the owner, Cash Rylance, brings him home to discuss the consequences with Penta, rather than call the police.

While Cash has a plan for Cyril to work off the damage to his shop, Penta at first balks. Should her son spend time with a man who looks rough around the edges?

Some people, based on his appearance, tats and a prison record, might judge Cash that way, but when Penta sees him reconnecting with his teen daughter (whose mother forbid him from contacting), she can’t help but feel there’s more to him than his outward appearance.

And for her part, Penta looks like a typical suburban mom struggling to balance raising her (mostly) teen children and yet, there’s more to her than meets the eye, as well.

Cash and Penta hatch a plan for a fake friendship to allow him time with his daughter and her a “walk on the wild side”. How do they fare?

This was an entertaining story with two unlikely characters - almost an opposites attract - finding each other and, in the end, learn a lot about themselves and what they can be for each other!