Review: The Irredeemable Billionaire (Muse #3)

The Irredeemable Billionaire (Muse #3)

by Lexxie Couper 

Blurb:

The rules have never applied to film director Sebastian Hart. He’s always done what he wants, when he wants. But after one too many wild nights, Sebastian finds himself performing community service in the unlikely role of big brother to a ten-year-old boy in need of a father figure. It seems like fate is playing with him when the boy’s mother turns out to be the girl he grew up next door to, the one person he’s never been able to win over with his smile or charm.

After the death of her husband, Grace Wilder has her hands full working as a paramedic and being both mother and father to their son. The last thing she needs is for the bane of her teenage existence to show up, or for her son to contract a case of hero worship. Even worse is the fact that the boy who once made her life miserable has turned into a man who has the power to destroy her with his devastating smile and sexy eyes.

Themes:  Contemporary, Erotica

Rating: 3.75 stars

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Review:

I have really enjoyed this short series by Lexxie Couper, one of my favorite erotic authors, and getting to meet this trio of interesting and sexy billionaires, and this final story in the series was a fun and sexy way to bring it to an end.  The series, set mostly in Australia, revolves around three friends, all billionaires, which meet three amazing women that are so far out of their league simply because they have no interest in their shallow playboy ways.  I loved the first two stories in the series and enjoyed Seb and Grace’s story too, if I didn’t enjoy it quite as much.  I think the biggest issue for me was the length; there was so much going on in such a short time, that it just needed more time to be fleshed out in order for the full depth of the emotions to be believable.  Sebastian has been punished for a stupid indiscretion, sentenced to community service as a Big Brother, and in the process comes face-to-face with his childhood frenemey and neighbor Grace Ford Wilder.  Grace has been through a lot in her young life and is struggling now to raise her son and find a way to make ends meet, while still being there for her son, so when Sebastian blasts back into her life she just simply has no time to deal with his shit.  But Grace’s son, Cody, is instantly attached to Sebastian, and Sebastian seems just as intensely unwilling to leave them in peace, though he doesn’t seem to have a logical reason for his unwillingness to leave them alone. In the end will Sebastian be able to show he has changed and grown up enough to earn the love of a woman like Grace and the wonderful son she has raised or will Sebastian lose everything he never knew he always wanted?  I loved seeing Sebastian faced with his own shortcomings again and again, having to come to terms with the fact that having money doesn’t make him better than anyone else and that his actions really do have real life consequences he has to face just like the rest of us.  It was obvious that Seb wasn’t a bad person, wasn’t even a selfish one, just a man that has never wanted for anything in his life and hasn’t ever really had to work too hard to get what he wanted, so being faced with a woman like Grace was way out his comfort zone. Grace on the other hand has had to work and scrape for everything she has her entire life and has no room in it for an egomaniac like Sebastian Hart, despite how sexy he is and how much he makes her heart race and her body come alive like it never has.  Grace was the kind of woman I hope to grow up to be, her inner strength always shining through even in her weakest moments, but the love she has for her son and even for Seb is so obvious even more to those around her than herself sometimes.  I loved the moments that both Seb and Grace allowed themselves to give in to the passion and love ignited in one another and in those moments the heat between them was enough to start a wildfire, but the quiet moments of emotional support they shared were just as intriguing and sweet.  The connection between Cody and Sebastian was also well done and obviously Cody has found the father-figure Grace was looking for, even if he’s not as perfect as she might have wished for her son.  The ending to this one was rather abrupt and totally threw me for a loop, but I enjoyed the story overall despite that, though I would have loved a few more chapters to be sure.  I love anything that Lexxie writes and I am thrilled that these men all found their loves, but I wonder if maybe another book might pop up with Harrison, Seb’s brother finding love as well (*hint hint, nudge nudge*). Thanks for another sexy and sensual adventure down under, Ms. Couper.

*ebook provided by publisher (via netgalley) for the purpose of an honest and unbiased review.  No compensation was provided.