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ARC Review of The Home Wrecker by Sara Cate

Rating: 4/5 Heat Level: 4.25/5 Publication Date: March 25th

Premise:

A poly romance with a married couple; Caleb and Briar Goode agree to let Dean live in their guest house after his house burns down. Both of them grapple with their attraction to Dean even as their own marriage is falling apart.

My review:

I'm a huge sucker for marriages in trouble in romance novels, and Sara Cate delivered! There's angst and there's drama, and there's also this surprisingly tender love story between three people who all feel like outsiders in one way or another.

Caleb and Briar's marriage is falling apart; they're struggling to conceive a second child and sex is more of a chore than for pleasure. Enter Dean, who is a sex worker at the local kink club, and was also Caleb's younger brother Isaac's first boyfriend when they were teenagers. He also believes Caleb broke them up all those years ago, which is why he decides he's going to seduce Briar. Writing it here sounds a bit campy/soap opera villain-y, but the hurt surrounding Isaac being kicked out after coming out runs deep in both Dean and Caleb, and it's a recurring theme in this book.

I saw a lot of promo about there being cheating in this book— I imagine it did its job in warning some people and making others curious, like me. So yes, there's cheating; Briar and Caleb individually cheat with Dean without telling one another beforehand. It's... unethical nonmonogamy, if you will. What's also interesting is there are flashbacks of how Briar and Caleb got together that parallel the main story, and their relationship also began with, you guessed it, cheating.

So what we get is this slow seduction of a lonely, attention-starved wife via wine nights and long conversations, all while the husband is getting increasingly suspicious— it's a classic, and it works. The not-so-classic part is that Caleb confronts Dean on multiple occasions, and these confrontations are riddled with sexual tension underneath all the male posturing. I like how Sara Cate wrote Caleb's bi awakening— it's these little things adding up like when he realizes he's checking out Dean, but you do get the sense he came to terms with it (to a degree) some years ago even if he never thought he'd act on his attraction to a man after marrying Briar. But when he does, it's actually kind of great. I also liked how Sara handled their transition from cheating to polyamory with a lot of deftness and care (Dean being a sex worker, Briar and Caleb's inability to conceive and their next steps, Caleb coming out as bi); their conflicting back-and-forth regarding what others will think is just the right amount so the reader never loses sight of that inevitable HEA.

I do have a couple notes— I don't think it was necessary to have a verbalized "bet" between Caleb and Dean about whether Briar would cheat on Caleb with Dean— regardless of Dean's intent to seduce her, the bet itself came across as immature (especially for Caleb, a man in his thirties) and icky. There's also the matter of Caleb's father's impending trial for assaulting a woman; I'm not sure exactly how valid it is for the book's hero to consider helping his father to the extent he did, especially considering the victim is his brother's girlfriend. I understand Caleb is an attorney, and a lesser charge could increase the likelihood of the defendant being put away, but I was surprised Caleb was conflicted for as long as he was.

The sex:

Solid, as per Sara Cate's usual, and lightly kinky. Dean first functions as a sex coach to Caleb and Briar, but the lines become blurred very quickly and his approach becomes more, ah, hands-on. It's also funny when both Caleb and Briar keep getting jealous of each other for the time they spend with Dean, but that jealousy has them constantly jumping the other two and they can't even call it retaliation because they're like, genuinely getting off on it.

Standout moment sex-wise was probably some very interesting things done with foreskin while Dean is jacking himself and Caleb off. I had to reread that one a couple times to get it.

I will also say this for the Goode brothers: they really have no qualms about defiling daddy's office(s).

Overall:

I'd recommend this book to any romance reader; The romance between Briar, Caleb, and Dean was tension-filled and brought the heat, and it also packed an unexpectedly emotional punch by the end.

Thank you to The Author Agency for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

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i have neither a good imagination nor aphantasia, but a secret third thing

inspired by this post, in which Damian does not know what Vine is

a comic/zine about coyotes

Ghosts Tell Me

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Ghosts gather near the place where something bad is going to happen,

Danny with his ghost sense tends to notice before anyone else and tends to react outwardly before the danger even happens, gaining a reputation of seeing the future,

Ghosts also tell Danny things, causing Danny to know more about situations and the people around him, it comes of as suspicious.

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Danny pulling away a snack from his coworker: "Careful your allergic to these ingredients!"

Coworker: "How the hell...I've never mentioned that to anyone."

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Danny on a phone call with his friends while doing his nightly walks in Gotham: "Yeah so apparently the second Robin who is now Red Hood has very personal beef with the clown here cuz he got killed by him after being sold out by his bio mom, which really sucks for the poor guy."

Oracle who has been keeping an Eye on Danny cuz he's very suspicious from an outsiders pov: "Hey B, I think we have a problem."

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Danny notices that the ghost in Gotham tends to gather where something bad is going to happen, the more they are the worse the situation will be: *glowing smoke leaves from his mouth* "Yikes! Very bad vibes here, nope!"

Gothamites who at this point recognize him and know the drill and quickly pack up their things to leave:

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