Shared by the Billionaires by Cassie Cole

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Nerdy coder girl? Check.
Massive debt? Double-check.
New job working for three Silicon Valley billionaires at a crypto-currency startup?
Ugh. Triple-check.

Jude Cauthon is nerdy and sweet and awkward in all the right ways. As the Chief Technical Officer of the company, he spends long hours showing me the ropes at the company, with plenty of late nights with just the two of us huddled around his computer screen. And after one especially productive evening at the office? We can’t stop thinking about each other.

Owen March, on the other hand? He’s the cocky know-it-all CEO who struts around like he’s the second coming of Jesus. Sure, he’s young and smoking hot and has enough confidence to lead an army into battle. And yeah, his smoldering emerald gaze sends shivers up my spine every time he glances in my direction. But soon his teases and taunts take on a playful edge, and I begin looking forward to the hacker pranks we’ve been pulling on each other…

Then there’s Furio Rossi, the Italian billionaire who just invested in our company. He’s the tall, dark, and handsome descendant of Roman royalty, and he kisses my hand and fawns over me like I’m an angel sent from heaven. And when he invites me to Italy to audit one of his tech companies, I wonder how deep his affection goes.

Can we get this tech startup off the ground and turn it into a billion-dollar company?
Or will all our hard work–and the love we’ve found along the way–be for nothing?

SHARED BY THE BILLIONAIRES is a sizzling reverse harem love story filled with humor, suspense, and scintillating action. HEA guaranteed!

Shared by the Billionaires

Pretty standard RH standalone!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 😔😃😤🥰

The heroine: Amber Moltisanti – she is a software developer from San Francisco. Her only family was her younger sister Michelle who just turned twenty-one and Amber was throwing her a party on a rooftop bar. She just got an interview with a company called Advanced Crypto Solutions which she would be attending the following day. She hoped it would go well since she really needed the money.

The Heroes: Jude, Owen and Furio – Billionaires who run the startup firm ACS.
Jude Cauthon – a shy and nerdy introvert. He is the Chief Technical Officer of Advanced Crypto Solutions.
Owen March – The CEO of ACS. He is confident and arrogant and as handsome as a god. He was used to being the center of attention in any room he was in.
Furio Rossi – a billionaire financier who invested in ACS. His family had been Italian royalty before Italy dissolved the monarchy.

The Story: Amber rented out the rooftop bar at a local night spot for her sister’s birthday and was having a good time. She even spent some time flirting with Jude until she and her party were kicked off the roof because the owner (Owen March) had a meeting with Furio Rossi and wanted the space to talk privately. Amber wasn’t happy and called them a number of choice names, making a fuss about it, though it didn’t do her any good.

This story was interesting and like I have said in some of my previous reviews of Cassie Cole’s books, she does a ton of research. This book had a lot of information about cryptocurrency which is pretty hard to understand, but it was explained very well. I liked the fact that you could see from the start how intelligent Amber was despite the mistakes she made. It made her a good heroine and I liked her quite a bit.

I thought Owen was a huge jerk at first, and he actually was. However, he started to show his true colors pretty quickly and I liked that he really saw inside Amber and helped her out. When before that it seemed like she didn’t matter much at all to him.

I have to admit though, of the reverse harem romances, the ones I like the least are ones like this one where the heroine starts seeing and hooking up with the men separately and then later, once she kind of has relationships with all of them, they find out about each other and decide to share the heroine. I think in reality, it wouldn’t happen like that at all when each of the guys thought he was in a one on one relationship. I like them better when the Heroes decide from the start that they want to share the heroine.

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