Drilled by Cassie Cole

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

It was pushing midnight at the bar, and I was looking to make a mistake. Then he walked in. 

Lexa Lewis turns to a one-night stand to blow of some steam after losing her job. Casimiro is the perfect man for the task: tall, handsome, and smiling like he knows exactly what Lexa’s thinking. By the time she follows him to the bathroom neither of them need to say a word to know what the other wants. 

If only the affair ended there. 

Never expecting to see him again, Lexa is shocked when Casimiro and his team of safety auditors show up at Blackrock Energy, the site of her new job. And when her boss suggests they rent the spare rooms in Lexa’s house, she has no choice but to agree rather than admit what had happened with the burly contractor. Now she has to resist the temptation of having four muscled, charming men walking around her condo. 

But Casimiro and the others—Kai Mendelssohn, Tex Matthews, and Jason Padmore—aren’t just at Blackrock for a routine safety audit. They have other motives surrounding the huge drilling company, and it means not getting involved with anyone working there. Yet Casimiro can’t stop thinking about Lexa and the way she felt that night at the bar… 

As Lexa discovers what their real mission is, she must choose between helping the men with whom she’s falling in love or remaining loyal to her new job. Will she decide which course of action is right, or will she lose both her job and her lovers in the process? 

DRILLED is a sexy, stand-alone reverse harem romance filled with humor, action, and mystery. It also contains sizzling hot menage encounters, in single and multiple partner scenes. HEA guaranteed!

Drilled

Great story, the romance needed work though!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😟🤭☺️

The heroine: Lexi – she just lost her job as a copy editor at the Bismarck Herald where she had worked for seven years, after finding out the paper was closing down. She also just closed on a huge 3 level condo, and her job prospects in newspapers are not good. Lexi is at the local watering hole drowning her sorrows when in walks a tall blond hunk of man candy.

The Heroes: Casimiro, Kai, Tex & Jason – audit contractors for Blackrock Energy who may have more in mind than just a routine safety audit.
Cas – handsome, muscular with dirty blond hair. He originally worked in the oil drilling industry but wanted out because of the dangerous working conditions, so he decided to become a safety auditor.
Kai – he’s German, massive and muscular. He has a bit of PTSD, and he loves to cook for others.
Tex – he is tall and lean with a buzz cut. He grew up with a lot of fear and anxiety, joining the army and becoming a demolitions expert helped with that, made him focus on safety, which is why he became a safety auditor.
Jason – He is slow to trust and has a bit of a hard edge.

The Story: – Lexi and Casimiro meet in a bar and immediately hook up in a closet near the bathroom. It was her first quick and dirty one night stand kind of hook-up, and she sneaked out of the bar as soon as it was over. Months later after looking for jobs for a while and even putting the spare bedrooms in her condo up for rent on Airbnb and Craigslist, Lexi finally got a job through a temp agency. She would be working as an administrative assistant (a.k.a. secretary) for a company called Blackrock Energy.

Lexi had only gotten creeps replying to her ads for the rooms she wanted to rent in her condo, so her boss suggested the four audit contractors should rent those rooms while they were in town. Lexi wasn’t too thrilled about it when she saw that one of those contractors was none other than the man she hooked up with a few months ago, but she couldn’t really do anything about it so the four men moved in.

I liked the fact that these four guys had shared a woman in the past, so it wasn’t odd for them to all want Lexi or for them to all start hooking up with her. I also liked the fact that the guys were at Blackrock Energy for some other purpose even though they were actually safety auditors. They said from the start that this would be their last job, so it was all very mysterious.

One thing I didn’t like about this story, it was that Lexi seemed so intelligent at first, but then she does something that is so stupid, it changed my opinion of her. Then she lets her boss talk her into some unethical behavior and she thinks it is a great thing because it is more work for her and the kind of work she likes to do. The guys were all great though their big reveal of what they were hiding wasn’t a shock at all.

Though I did like this book, I probably liked it the least of the 4 reverse harem books I have read so far from Cassie Cole. She has good stories, but in the first three books I read, she spent as much time on the relationships as on the detailed storylines. In this book, I found that I didn’t get as good of an idea of who each of the men were, especially Jason and Lexi’s time with Kai (other than him cooking for her) didn’t start until late in the book. I still plan to read more from this author though since her writing and stories are so good.

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