Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Wicked Fall (Wicked Horse, #1) by Sawyer Bennett Review


This is a spoiler-free review! Wicked Fall is currently available for free on iBooks and Kindle.

Callie Hayes returns home to Wyoming after a shocking discovery about her fiancé, and ends up in the presence of Woolf Jennings -- her late brother's best friend and CEO of his family's company. But little does she know that what made her run away from her fiancé may be the same thing that leads her to Woolf.

When I first started reading this book, in my mind I thought Woolf would be more focused on his family's company and have more of a cowboy demeanor, and that was definitely not the case. We know right off the bat -- and the summary -- that he owns and operates a private sex club, The Silo, in order to indulge his and his members deepest fantasies. This book is considered an erotic romance, but I felt as though the erotica fell a little short. There were about two or three scenes that were really well done and actually went into that category, but the rest of the scenes were short lived and did not convey an erotic romance.

I really liked the friendship between Woolf and Bridger, his business partner/best friend. Their relationship was very nuanced and added a lot of depth to both of the characters, which made Woolf's point of view more interesting to read, when he was not so focused on Callie. Bennett did a great job on developing Woolf and Bridger's backstories and incorporating their bond into both of their personalities. 

Comparing Callie's point of view to Woolf's, I have to say that I enjoyed Woolf's chapters a little bit more. His character had more dimensions than Callie, and her chapters felt a little repetitive and riddled with the same issues over and over again. She was definitely an interesting character and willing to change her own views on Woolf's sex club and fantasies, but her character hit somewhat of a wall a little over halfway through the book and I could not get past it.

Based off of the summary, I was expecting an explosive relationship between Woolf and Callie, and while that was true for some scenes, the story was progressing slowly for me and I personally felt that it fell a little flat in the end. I wanted the characters to end up in a specific way that I felt was the ending the book was pushing for, and then it simply went in a different direction. I expected a lot more scenes at The Silo, and we were only given a few minor ones and one relatively long one that was actually the best smut scene in the book.

The secondary characters -- besides Bridger -- really did not play into the book as much as I had hoped. We see Callie's dad so briefly, I thought I imagined that he was actually there -- and as for the other man that was interested in Callie, I really thought that he was going to play a much bigger role in the book, and then he just kind of vanished from the story. After everything was said and done, I was hoping to see Bridger as the star of the next book in the series, but the epilogue proved me otherwise and focuses on another secondary character that showed up in about two scenes throughout this book.

If you are looking for a more low-key erotic romance, this is the book for you. It focuses a lot of character and relationship development instead of smut scenes, so the plot is definitely there.


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