Fever

ByMaya Banks

Release Date: 2013-04-02
Genre: Contemporary Romance

Score: 4

From 2,016 Ratings

Description

In the second novel in the Breathless trilogy—now celebrating its 10th Anniversary—a woman's undeniable allure takes a dominant man completely by surprise...

Jace Crestwell, Ash McIntyre, and Gabe Hamilton have been best friends and successful business partners for years. They’re powerful, they’re imposing, they’re irresistibly sexy, and Jace and Ash share everything—including their women.

When they meet Bethany, Jace begins to feel things he’s never experienced before: jealousy, and a powerful obsession that threatens him, overwhelms him—and excites him beyond control.

Jace isn’t sharing Bethany—with anyone. He’s determined to be the only man in her life, and it’s jeopardizing a lifelong friendship with Ash. Bethany will be his and his alone. Even if it means turning his back on his best friend.

Reviews

Unexpected and bittersweet
5
By Miranda0208
I was blindsided by this book. I started this series like I start any other book, curious and excited. I can’t think of any other book that has hit me so hard emotionally and personally. I have never related to a character more than I do to Bethany. I know how deep her shame of her past cuts, how painful it is to feel unworthy of love and have nothing to offer anyone. Her struggles are all too familiar.

Her story is perfectly told and is giving me hope for my future.
Loved it!
4
By amanda2460111
I read this book in 3 days! I love that Jace only wanted Bethany happy and he only had eyes for her. Such a good story and excited to read the next book!
Gross and lazy writing.
1
By FSD@Yahoo
All I kept thinking was Bethany needed a long hot shower all the time, since she was homeless. Could not get into this book.

The dialogue was poorly written and short and the constant repetition of the characters thought process is annoying. I think we understand when you tell us what they are thinking 3 times, but the author keeps repeating herself over and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over. I couldn’t finish this book, since Maya Banks repeats how they feel or are from each chapter. We get it, your readers are not stupid, they like a good book, but this one was lazy writing on the Authors part.
Rolled my eyes like a million times
1
By majobellecase
Seriously? Is this what people like? I preferred the first book honestly this was too much in all ways. Menages are not for me definitely but Bethany was just sooooooooo submissive and naive and stupid i just couldnt. No way.
It was okay.
2
By Sillygurljak
I enjoyed Gabes story better. I just couldn’t with Bethany, she was too submissive and too naive for me.
Fever
3
By yelicortezz
Bethany got on my nerves a little bit. I felt like majority of the time she was crying. I understand she had a difficult life and maybe had a little low self esteem, but I felt like the crying was so necessary. I like the plot though I thought it was really good and jace was sweet at times. The sex scenes were pretty hot better than the first book. I think it’s worth the price to read. Hopefully the last book is good.
Love it
4
By Nsmith2011
Love it
Seriously?
2
By alynnparde
Was looking forward to this book after Rush, but it was so boring. The dialogue made me want to pull my hair out. The story line seemed to drag on and I couldn’t even finish the book.
What the heck happened?!
1
By BreesyReader80
I enjoyed the first book in this series quite a bit so I was looking forward to continuing on. Unfortunately this hugely disappointed. I only finished it because I paid for it.

I just could not get into these characters. They both lacked substance and the storyline was really weak. Jace is the typical dominant gozillionaire male, and despite the author's efforts to romanticize him, she fails to create enough depth to his character and he just comes across as selfish and ignorant. As for Bethany, she is supposed to be so strong and tough from surviving on the streets, but ultimately she struck me as a weakling. Her inability to chin up and have a little pride made her almost pathetic. Both characters were just too flat and one dimensional for my taste. And the steamy stuff didn't make up for it either. The scenes were redundant and seemingly formulaic.

So disappointed. Seemed like this was written by someone else altogether versus the first book in the series.
Eh....
3
By Kai-Jaiden
The storyline does vary from the "rich control freak/doe eyed beauty" routine. That being said, it's a bit of a stretch. I mean seriously. Doesn't the homeless girl need a shower before hoping into bed with two rich and handsome hunks? The lack of pronoun usage gets really irritating and the constant repetition of how close the guys were. We get it!