Tall, Dark and Tempting (Tall, Dark and Sexy #3) by Erika Wilde-Review and Excerpt Tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date December 11, 2018.
Dylan Stone and Serena Fields have been best of friends their entire lives. For Dylan, she’s the solid, dependable woman in his life. His person. The one who has been there for him through the best and worst of times and doesn’t see him for the millions he has in the bank. And even though he’s been secretly attracted to her for years, there are some lines that best friends don’t cross—even if he does spend most of their time together entertaining dirty thoughts about her that have no business being in his head.
Serena has been in love with Dylan Stone for as long as she can remember, but she’s searching for her happily-ever-after and that’s not her best friend’s thing. Unfortunately, her dating life is one disaster after another, yet Dylan is always there with a pint of her favorite ice cream and a listening ear after each and every disappointing encounter.
It’s the perfect arrangement, until one night changes everything.
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REVIEW: TALL, DARK AND TEMPTING is the third instalment in Erika Wilde’s contemporary, adult TALL, DARK AND SEXY erotic, romances series. This is app developer Dylan Stone, and primary school teacher Serena Fields’ story line. TALL, DARK AND TEMPTING can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.
Told from dual third person perspectives (Dylan and Serena) TALL, DARK AND TEMPTING focuses on the friends to lovers relationship between app developer Dylan Stone, and primary school teacher Serena Fields. Dylan and Serena have been life-long best friends but something has changed between them recently, something that stirs deep inside our story line hero. Having watched Serena struggle in the world of on-line dating, Dylan sets out to develops a ‘boyfriend app’ in the hopes of helping the woman that has always called to his heart but a call to which Dylan is completely unaware. What ensues is the on-going but deteriorating friendship between Dylan and Serena, and the fall-out as Dylan is unable to commit beyond their friendship as Serena wants a happily ever after, a fairy-tale and more.
The relationship between Serena and Dylan is a friends to lovers relationship, a relationship wherein Serena’s love for Dylan goes unanswered and unknown. Dylan is oblivious to his best friend’s attraction and want of our story line hero, an attraction that Dylan struggles to return. The 4ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
The colorful secondary and supporting characters include Dylan’s brothers Leo and his girlfriend Peyton (Tall, Dark and Irresistible #2); Aiden and Daisy (Tall, Dark and Charming #1), as well as their mother Grace, and her fiancé Charles, Serena’s friend Chelsea, Leo’s business partner/Dylan’s best friend Eric Miller, as well as a number of men who come and go in our heroine’s life. Eric and Chelsea’s story line is next in TOTAL PACKAGE, co-authored by Carly Phillips and Erika Wilde.
TALL, DARK AND TEMPTING is a story of friendship and love, heart break and sorrow. The premise is spirited and realistic; the romance is sexy and spicy; the characters are sassy and dynamic. TALL, DARK AND TEMPTING is a fast paced, playful and character driven storyline that will captivate and entertain.
Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Tall, Dark and Charming
Tall, Dark and Irresistible
Tall, Dark and Tempting
Copy supplied for review
Reviewed by Sandy
NOTE: The excerpt is intended for mature readers 18+ due to language and content
It seemed to take forever until they reached their floor, and they quietly walked down the hall toward their separate junior suites, which were located directly across from each other, with him and Eric on one side, and her and Chelsea on the other.
She retrieved her key card from the small purse she’d worn with the strap across her body so she didn’t have to hold the bag. He started to tell her good night as she waved the plastic card in front of the lock mechanism, but the faint sounds he heard coming from inside her room—unmistakable moaning, groaning, sex noises—had him blurting out, “Don’t open the door!” right as she pushed inside.
She sucked in a startled breath and froze as she belatedly realized what she’d just walked in on—their friends getting laid. With each other. Half-dressed, Eric was sitting on the couch in the living room area, with Chelsea straddling his lap, her dress hiked up to the tops of her thighs as they kissed and groped and moaned in pleasure, oblivious to the fact that they had an audience. Jesus, out of courtesy, the least they could have done was hang the do-not-disturb sign on the door.
“Oh, crap,” Dylan heard Serena rasp. Clearly flustered, she spun around, and in her haste to get out of the room, she slammed right into him as the door shut behind her.
The unexpected impact had her wobbling on her heels, and his hands automatically shot out to grab her arms, then hauled her close to keep her steady on her feet.
Big fucking mistake. Not only because her sweet, firm breasts were crushed against his chest and her body plastered to his, but the big, round eyes staring up at him in shock had nothing to do with what they’d just witnessed and everything to do with the stiff length of his erection tenting his pants that was now pressing insistently against her belly.
“Oh my God, are you turned on because you just saw . . .”
Her words trailed off, but he knew what, or whom, she was referring to. The easy answer was to say yes, even if it did make him look like a pervert, but the frustration he’d been dealing with all night was at its tipping point and overrode common sense.
“No, it’s because of you, Serena,” he said through gritted teeth, the filter on his words having gone AWOL. “I’ve been hard as a rock since you wiggled your ass against my dick out on the dance floor. I’m a man, you’re gorgeous and hot as hell, so yeah, I fucking want you.”
Time stood still as the truth spilled out of him, his heart racing in his chest at what he’d just revealed. Serena’s lips parted, her features etched at first with disbelief, then quickly shifting to hope and elation, then on to something more daring and courageous.
“It’s now or never,” he heard her whisper right before she wrapped her arms around his neck, pulled his head down to hers, and kissed him . . . not like a friend, but a sinfully sexy lover.
This couldn’t happen. Stop her, his brain shouted as their mouths merged and her tongue touched his bottom lip enticingly . . . but the accumulation of desire he’d harbored for his best friend for so many years finally crashed through every bit of self-discipline he had left, which wasn’t much at this point.
He was helpless to resist her, and he suddenly no longer wanted to.
Erika Wilde:
Erika Wilde is the author of the sexy Marriage Diaries series and The Players Club series. She lives in Oregon with her husband and two daughters, and when she’s not writing you can find her exploring the beautiful Pacific Northwest. For more information on her upcoming releases, please visit website at www.erikawilde.com.
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Great review, Sandy. Looks like a fun story line.
Thanks for the wonderful review Sandy. Looks great.
Another great review, thanks Sandy.
Very nice review, Sandy. Thanks.
Wonderful review Sandy! Great cover and excerpt too!! Shared on all my socials!!??
Terrific review, Sandy. Looks very good.
Thanks for another great review and excerpt Sandy.
Another great review and excerpt, thanks Sandy
Great review and excerpt, thanks Sandy.
Very nice review and excerpt, thanks Sandy.