Sugar
on the Edge
(Last
Call Book #3)
By,
Sawyer
Bennett
4
Stars!!
He’s utterly alone…
Tortured and existing in a dark spiral of despair, bestselling British author, Gavin Cooke, has come to the Outer Banks of North Carolina to escape the seedy lifestyle he had been living in London and in a desperate attempt to regain his writing focus. He’s twisted, bitter and angry at the world. He’s a loner… needing not a single thing other than his Scotch and a laptop upon which he can bang out his next erotic, dark thriller.
She’s running in place and getting nowhere…
Savannah Shepherd’s life is falling apart. Her dream of being a wildlife photographer seems a distant memory and she’s barely able to make ends meet. Driving herself forward with no clear goals apparent, she’s about ready to pack up her bags and head home with her tail between her legs.
Two unlikely lovers…
He’s raw, forceful and a dirty talker. She’s a flowers and romance type of girl. Yet within each other, they find a mutual craving that can only be satisfied by giving in to their desires for one another.
Lust turns into something more… something they were not looking for but tentatively accept. Will it be enough to push them past the obstacles of Gavin’s bitter past?
*SUGAR ON THE EDGE can be read as a stand-alone*
Tortured and existing in a dark spiral of despair, bestselling British author, Gavin Cooke, has come to the Outer Banks of North Carolina to escape the seedy lifestyle he had been living in London and in a desperate attempt to regain his writing focus. He’s twisted, bitter and angry at the world. He’s a loner… needing not a single thing other than his Scotch and a laptop upon which he can bang out his next erotic, dark thriller.
She’s running in place and getting nowhere…
Savannah Shepherd’s life is falling apart. Her dream of being a wildlife photographer seems a distant memory and she’s barely able to make ends meet. Driving herself forward with no clear goals apparent, she’s about ready to pack up her bags and head home with her tail between her legs.
Two unlikely lovers…
He’s raw, forceful and a dirty talker. She’s a flowers and romance type of girl. Yet within each other, they find a mutual craving that can only be satisfied by giving in to their desires for one another.
Lust turns into something more… something they were not looking for but tentatively accept. Will it be enough to push them past the obstacles of Gavin’s bitter past?
*SUGAR ON THE EDGE can be read as a stand-alone*
“There’s nothing formal about love, Savannah. It’s
hot, messy, and totally disjointed.”
This is the third book in the Last Call series. I have read
the previous two and Brody is definitely my favorite. Gavin’s story is a close
second but Brody definitely wins out. I love Sawyer Bennett’s books. These are
not the only books that I have picked up that she has written. I have loved
everyone I have picked up and this one is no different! This book is really a
Beauty and the Beast story. The Anti-heroine and the anti-hero. Gavin dark and
brooding and Savannah shy and sweet.
“Her smile calms, her soft touch unmans. Her laugh
fortifies, and her brazen look overwhelms me.”
What I liked:
The writing- The writing and the flow was fast paced. There
was always something going on. You didn’t get bored for one second. Sawyer
Bennett was always coming at you with something. But she did it in a way that
it wasn’t overwhelming either. I loved how we got to see the other two couples
in this book too. She wrote in updates that were so good.
The steamy scenes- There was plenty of them and very hot.
Gavin was dark and tortured so the steamy scene tended to be on the more
intense side then the other two books in this series. I thought that it all
worked. The romance was great. The two of the had some amazing chemistry
Savannah- She was shy and timid but she grew that back bone
of hers. She had one it was just hidden because she was fighting so hard to just
live. She is a hard worker and doesn’t want anything that even remotely looks
like a handout.
Gavin- He tortured, dark, and British. He has been through some hard things before he moved to the Outer Banks to write his book. He was an asshole but I liked his chapters anyway. He was
really blunt and rough but Savannah made him even better than he already was.
“Desire, not lust. Because they are two different
things. Lust suggests a carnal need to slake oneself until there is no further
need. Desire suggests a craving… something that is pervasive and without end.
Something that slowly pulls at you…warms you from the inside out and fogs your
sense entirely.”
There really isn’t much that I didn’t like about the book. I
think that for some people it might be hard to warm up to Gavin because of how
rude he is but that didn’t bother me too much. He was a really good to
Savannah.
Now with that being said there was one major thing that I
hated and I am going to give you fair warning it is a spoiler. I am going to
try and word it so that it is not a complete, shouting at the top of my lungs,
giving you every detail, spoiler. But I am going to put the buy links here and
do not read further if you have not read the book yet……
Ok so the one big thing I hated was the ending. I mean I
thought there was something missing when they didn’t have their big drama
moment that is in almost every single book. But it was there and it was the
end. I mean Gavin just leaves her. Doesn’t even look back. When she needs him
the most. And the part that makes me so mad is that he doesn’t even come back
for her. Savannah has to be the bigger person and goes the find him. To me he
didn’t even have to do the proper amount of groveling. Savannah just lets him
say sorry and that’s that. I get forgiving him but I think he should’ve had to
work a hell of a lot harder than that.
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