I didn't really care for this one. For the first two thirds it was not especially good, but fine, 3 stars, but when I was hoping it might perhaps improve, it instead just got worse as it went along, for me at least. I still finished it, because that's what I do, =D, but if the book had just disappeared from the face of the Earth and I could never know the ending, I wouldn't have particularly cared.

There's a huge secret kept past the point of decency, (or even reason), and those are tiring (and frankly kind of off-putting), and then when it comes out at a super inopportune time, like it's bound to do of course, the characters made it seem like the other person was purely upset about the past incident that had been kept secret and not the fact that it was *kept secret* past the point it should have been. Obviously you can't change your past, but you *can* choose how you handle it, and when you entirely mishandle it and upset the other person, it's lame to act like they're just meanys for not just accepting your past, rather than acknowledging that they're justifiably hurt that you were dishonest with them. Also, the characters just started responding to things like teenagers, where everything is super dramatic and self centered, and goes from one viewpoint to its opposite at the drop of a hat. Kind of pouty. They each have a past incident that really impacted them, which is fine, but those things were referenced or dredged up, what at least felt like, several times every chapter. And I started to feel like '1) I still remember the thing!, and, 2) though definitely unfortunate, it shouldn't be the determining factor in every choice you make for the rest of your life!'.

Additionally, the notion of what's 'proper' or not was absolutely belabored into the dirt, (if you played a drinking game on mentions of it, you would definitely die of alcohol poisoning lol). And although I really do quite enjoy Greek mythology, it felt like it was shoehorned into every possible crevice of the story, to a tedious extent. All of these things added up to make the last third seem like it just dragged on forever. If this were my first book by this author I might be a little hesitant to pick up another, but I genuinely liked the first in this series and enjoyed the second, so I will continue on with the series. ( )

I enjoyed this Scandalous romance. I voluntarily chose to review this story and I've given it a 4* rating. This is not for the under 18 readers, because of the sexual content. This story went back and forth almost too much. It was a much heaver read than the last two books of hers I've read. It did have a decent ending that wrapped up some things. I'm on to my next book. ( )