[b:Sin & Seduction|15989137|Sin & Seduction|Allison Cassatta|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1346777224s/15989137.jpg|21441132] is a little difficult for me to review because on one hand I disliked some key aspects of the book and on the other hand I enjoyed the other parts. A mafia type like crime boss (?) falls for an insecure, damaged male stripper. Both men crash their way into a HEA.

I'm the type of reader who does not mind reading about a villain finally getting their happy ending. And Dorian Grant is not a goody two shoe type of hero, he definitely can take a seat in the bad boy chair. But the man noted his flaws and admits to them and for the most part, I liked him for it.

Is Grant the most evil character I've ever read? No.

Here's what ruined the story for me:

The flat, one dimensional main characters in the first half of the book. Between Dorian's weird dialgoue/ monologues, Jansen's repeated questions and weakness and the authors tendency to over explain a scene, character's clothes, feelings, etc. it distracted me to no end.

If Dorian is supposed to be Cajun and you want to portray a Cajun dialect - you need to pick a side. Either make him fully speak that way or you write his dialogue normally and just say he has a Cajun accent. Using ya" instead of "you" was distracting and when Dorian would sometimes say "you" instead" of his "ya", I wondered why even incorporate it if it wasn't going to be used for his entire dialogue throughout.

And Jansen...*sigh* he's a TSTL hero...seriously. If you were so brutally raped that your anus had to be surgically fixed and you held off from having anal sex since healing...you'd let a random guy fuck you raw AND with no form of lubrication? I'm not even commenting on remaining with Dorian after he damaged his anus because Jansen was not a good submissive and his reasoning at times was just plain...well, stupid He's afraid of Dorian for the most offhanded reasons at times and then he still stayed with him. And he puts Dorian through the wringer for some silly reasons.

Dorian - I did not like initially but at the end of the book, you know what? I like him. He's bad (for what reasons are not fully explained, he's a mob boss type of a crew of basically one other guy) he stated he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth so I actually expected him to be more educated, street or not, supposed thug or not. I think if Dorian didn't act like an angry gorilla half of the time, he'd have appealed to more readers.

But Dorian was at least consistent which is his best quality.

Some squick factors for potential readers: Dorian does have sex with another man after sleeping with Jansen, heavy drug use, lack of protection usage between the main characters, some violent scenes.

But what to rate it? *shrug* I'm in the middle - dead middle. TWO & A HALF STARS

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