MADDOX
by MELANIE MORELAND
Three young men meet in university and form a lifelong friendship.
Their pasts dictate the men they are, but their present shapes their future.
What happens when these men meet the one person they are destined to be with? Can they fight their feelings and walk away? Or will they each succumb and learn the sweet agony of love?
Maddox
Brought up in chaos and fear, Maddox requires order and control to cope with life.
He has his career and two closest friends. That is all he needs.
Until Dee enters his life.
She brings forth feelings he has denied himself his entire life—and threatens his control.
He wants to hold.
Keep.
Love.
Live.
Damaged by her past, Dee cannot admit her feelings for him, fighting him at every turn.
Is he strong enough to show her—to prove love is worth the risk for both of them?
"She fucked with my control. I fucked her to get it back."
Yep, yep, YEP. I really, really enjoyed this book the most out of the entire Vested Interest series!! I know I already told you I loved Bentley and then I told you I loved Aiden, but I have to say, Melanie brought something out in Maddox that I desperately needed to see to round out the BAM boys!! While Bentley was a really great start to this series, with Aiden bringing up the middle with an intensity that I was excited to witness, Maddox rounded out the group with his confidence and his swag, but a heart that betrayed him for the better. It was truly a great story to enjoy!
I will say that being able to visit with Bent and Emmy and Aiden and Cami - adding the emotions and the fears, this one was my favorite of the trio. I know! I know! I keep changing that when she adds a new story to the mix, but Maddox and Dee with their walls and personal issues, this one just made me smile a lot. These books aren't heavy. They aren't super overly dramatic. They are just a great story with some emotional moments mixed with a little bit of drama.
"Satin, lace, silk, and sin."
Maddox was a dirty talking (sooo delicious was his mouth!!), sexy man (silver fox!!) with some walls (poor guy) that were solidly in place. He liked control and he knew how to wield that control powerfully and respectfully; but he was quite HOT doing so...drool-worthy even. But, the same could be said for Dee. She liked her dirty talking man, with her sexy body that spoke to (screamed at!!) Maddox's inner control freak, and her own walls to scale (poor girl). These two, no matter how much they fought it, they worked so well together. They were the literal definition of 'made for each other'. I loved how these two tiptoed around their feelings for each other in the most delicate of ways. Blunt? Scared. Curious? Adamant. They both had something worth hiding from and fighting for, and it was really neat how they danced around those truths before accepting the inevitable. But the coming together (that was punny) was explosive. These two together were lip-biting sexy, and their intimacy poured off the pages.
With some drama that was, well....drama, it wasn't the focus of the story and I'm thankful for that. I enjoyed the fact that Moreland was able to share these big, burly men in all their glory that were brought to their knees by the women they loved, but they never lost their masculinity. In a world full of power and control, she added in beauty in romance with ease. It just worked for all of these guys and <sigh>, Maddox was it. He was sooo delicious. Yep, yummy.
Seeing all of these guys out of their element by the time this one was said and done made for a smile-worthy ending, and what a treat! The smiles, the laughs - hell, the grins were cheesy and the laughs were giggles, but I *really* enjoyed the ending to their trilogy. This was just a fitting end and to see it all button up as nicely as it did, it gave me the HEA I so desperately love.
But wait, there's more....The Rebel known as Reid is coming this fall, and once again I'm all excited for more!!
"Her very oxygen became mine. I needed her to breathe, to survive.
~BEE
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~MEET MELANIE L. MORELAND~
New York Times/USA Today bestselling author Melanie Moreland, lives a happy and content life in a quiet area of Ontario with her beloved husband of twenty-seven-plus years and their rescue cat, Amber. Nothing means more to her than her friends and family, and she cherishes every moment spent with them.
While seriously addicted to coffee, and highly challenged with all things computer-related and technical, she relishes baking, cooking, and trying new recipes for people to sample. She loves to throw dinner parties, and also enjoys travelling, but finds coming home is always the best part of any trip.
Melanie loves stories, especially paired with a good wine, and enjoys skydiving (free falling over a fleck of dust) extreme snowboarding (falling down stairs) and piloting her own helicopter (tripping over her own feet.) She's learned happily ever-afters, even bumpy ones, are all in how you tell the story.
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Thank you for this review! I am so glad you loved him and yes, his heart <3
ReplyDeleteOh, thank YOU for introducing me to Maddox!! I loved him so very much. He was so genuine, and I love that!
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