Shameless by Gina L. Maxwell

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

People say I’m shameless. They’re right.

I like my sex dirty. It takes a hell of a lot to tilt my moral compass, and I always follow when it’s pointing at something I want. That goes double when it points straight at the one girl in all of Chicago who’s not dying for a piece of me.

She’s all I can think about, and that’s a problem, because she wants nothing to do with me. But I’ve seen her deepest secrets, her darkest fantasies, and they match mine to a fucking T.

I want her. Bad.

Now I need to show her how good it can feel…to be shameless.

Shameless

More steam than story!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙💖
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎
Character development: 😄😮🙂🥰
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Jane – She has been writing her master’s thesis on social work for two years and is working hard to finish it and get her dual degree and start making real money. She hasn’t had a decent date in years and has since become a closet porn addict and self satisfier. Jane is angry with her landlord who refuses to call a plumber and she keeps having problems in her apartment on the south shore in a building that is older than sin. She has had to learn DYI home fixes via YouTube and isn’t happy about it, so when her lawyer friend tells her she found a handyman and paid in advance, she was happy to have him come over.

The Hero: Chance – He is a stripper for hire for a company he co-owns with a few friends called P for H. He loves the extra benefits of being able to hook up with clients. The money he gets is for stripping only, so anything else is just gravy. He also owns his own construction company that he has been building for years since he finished his expensive business degree.

The Story: Jane thinks she is getting an actual handyman, not a stripper dressed as a handyman. Chance wasn’t in the mood to do any stripping that night and was surprised to see the woman without makeup and dressed in yoga pants with slippers. When Jane points him toward the bathroom, Chance thinks she wants to be seduced. After the miscommunication is figured out, Chance is looking forward to seducing the geeky girl. Chance offers to fix Jane’s bathroom if she will let him dance for her, and she agrees.

I usually don’t like stories like these, because a male stripper who regularly hooks up with his clients, kind of grosses me out. It is one thing to be a playboy and serial dater, but to hook up with a bunch of random women who hire strippers just seems icky. Though I did like Chance and the fact that he wasn’t only a stripper. I also thought it was kind of funny when he accidentally hits her laptop and wakes it up and sees the pornhub site she was watching. He gets really interested in Jane after seeing the kind of kink she likes watching. The intimate scenes are definitely super hot, but the side storylines were somewhat lacking.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Aiden Snow and Avery Reed. Avery Reed sometimes sounds a bit nasal to me, her voice is ok, but gets on my nerves just a bit. Though she doesn’t sound like she is reading and shows emotion through her voice so those are a plus. Aiden Snow is one of my favorite male narrators with a deep sexy voice.

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