This review contains spoilers for Eyes on Me (Salacious Players Club, #2) by Sara Cate. A list of trigger warnings is provided in the beginning of the book.
You can read my review of Praise on my blog, here. While these books take place with the same characters, you do not have to read them in order or read all of them to understand the stories -- they can be read as stand alone books.
I left all of my morals at the door the day I read Credence by Penelope Douglas, and this is no exception. He's a voyeur, she's a cam girl. Step-siblings who barely know each other? Sign me up. Garrett is twelve years older than Mia, so the age gap is just big enough that it is noteworthy, and Mia is in her twenties so it is definitely not taboo. When Garrett decides to visit his family at their lake house for the week after seeing Mia on the cam girl site, he is in for an awakening he did not see coming.
Mia is witty and quick with comebacks to anything that Garrett says, and their bickering only makes their video sessions even more intense. With his video and audio off for the first session, Garrett edges on the fine line between watching and participating -- that is, until he turns his video on. And at the next session when he turns his audio on, the stakes become higher and the calls become hotter. The tension between them on calls and in person is off the charts, and after their second call when they are in the living room together, you could feel it in the air. I loved the way Garrett teases and digs at Mia to get information out of her, and the way Mia gives his energy right back to him.
Garrett is possessive of Mia as soon as he sees her interacting with a guy closer to her age than his, and the entire interaction of him and Reese in the bar had me kicking my feet in love with him. And everything that happened with Garrett and Mia immediately after he sucker-punched Reese? I did not think I could fall more in love and their chemistry is off the charts.
The way that Mia and "Drake" talk on the app was such a 180 turn from what we saw from Garrett and Mia in the beginning -- they are more personal in a way on the app, compared to their bickering and tension-filled encounters in person. Yes, they have both done some more than revealing things on the app, but when they start chatting after Mia thinks Garrett has rejected her, it reaches a new level.
I love the balance we get between Garrett and Mia -- they are either going at it in the woods or having deep conversations at three o'clock in the morning and discovering more about one another. The constant pull between Mia and "Drake" through the cam girl app and Mia and Garrett in "real life" shows two sides to Mia, and we are left wondering which one is really her and which one is an act. Garrett is teetering on the line of actually entertaining a relationship with Mia while also wanting to shield her from the club and his life.
Part Two is developed so well and with not just the sex scenes, but with character development. We see more of Garrett's inner struggles and thoughts as his and Mia's relationship progresses and they encounter obstacle after obstacle. I absolutely loved how we got to see them vulnerable, in more ways than one. Garrett and Mia's chemistry was off the charts and they actually acknowledged their feelings throughout the book -- to an extent -- without making insane decisions along the way.
I definitely recommend this series to fans of erotic romance books and are looking for something to kick start a romance-reading binge. Once you start, it's going to be hard to put the book down and it will leave you wanting even more.
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