Eyes on Me (Salacious Players Club, #2) by Sara Cate Review

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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Praise (Salacious Players Club, #1) by Sara Cate Review

This review contains spoilers for Praise (Salacious Players Club, #1) by Sara Cate. Please read with caution if you have not already read the book.

We are immediately thrown into Emerson's world with the first sentence of the book -- which makes it all the more intriguing, as I went into this read with very little known details about the plot. I was looking for a fun, quick read as I make my way through my TBR pile, and was instantly intrigued by Praise. Emerson, our resident 40-year-old father who definitely does not seem old enough to have an adult son, has particular interests in what he wants in a woman and in the bedroom. Charlie, the now ex-girlfriend of Emerson's son, certainly stumbles into his world hoping to get her security deposit back without a hassle, and ends up in a precarious situation.

I love the immediate connection that Emerson and Charlie have -- not the first time they meet, but rather, when Charlie is hired as his secretary and they visit the club together. They are already forming their own dialogue with each other, and we are thrust right into their blooming dynamic as Emerson continues to show his interest in Charlie and his fascination with the way that she conducts herself in new situations. She has little to no knowledge of what she is getting herself into, even with her rabbit-hole searches she conducted after finding out what Emerson does for a living.

Charlie is over here living the dream with Emerson telling her that she does not have to wear shoes when she comes into the office/his house -- what I would give to be open to take my shoes off at my desk while I"m at work!

Their dynamic is so great to read - it moves quickly, and you're not stuck reading through endless pages waiting for something small to happen. Go big or go home was definitely in the author's mindset, because when Emerson and Charlie start being involved, even with the basics, we are put right into their building relationship. I absolutely loved seeing the dual POVs as they begin to figure out what they want and the opposing sides of Emerson being so experienced and Charlie being so incredibly new to the club and to Emerson's life.

I love the relationship that Garrett has with Charlie -- it's nice to see her interacting with people that are not Emerson or her sister, but it's also good to see her enjoying her life. They give off this big brother-little sister dynamic, full of teasing and joking, and definitely getting on Emerson's nerves.

The way Beau keeps showing up into Charlie's life -- whether he's actually seeking her out or if he is there to see his father -- had me throwing the book across the room. He did not appreciate her in the beginning, and his phone call to her was no better. From the short scenes that he is in, we get this picture of him being this man-child who didn't know what he had and doesn't know how to keep it. The distaste he has for his father's sexual endeavors is now getting placed on Charlie, and yet he continues to want to be in her life but not his father's -- but he'll take his money. He definitely won me over -- maybe just a little bit -- by the end of the book, especially when he finally decides to own up to the mistakes that he has made and they way that he treated his father and Charlie.

I would definitely recommend this to fans of Fifty Shades of Grey -- while the age gap is a little more jarring in Praise, both have similar circumstances in a general sense. I definitely enjoyed this read -- it's quick, it's fun, and it's finally nice to see a main character that knows her worth and what she wants.

You can add Praise on Goodreads now, as well as the rest of the series, and follow the author to stay up to date on publications and releases.

You can catch up with me and my current reads by friending me on Goodreads and following this blog in order to stay up-to-date with any reviews, blog tours, and more!