“I’ve already warned you. You won’t be able to get enough. Now here’s your chance to stop this, while you still have the willpower.”
I chose to open my review with this quote because it’s simply the perfect warning before beginning Bait.
I will first start by saying that I am a complete sucker for angst ridden stories. The more turmoil, the better, and Bait more than delivers. It will quite literally cause you untold amounts of distress, and frustration causing more than a few outbursts of expletives!
This story is not for readers that are intolerant to infidelity in stories; Bait is the first chapter in the new Wake series by M. Mabie. Blake is a young successful woman on her journey to not only find her true self but also exploring and accepting her hearts truest desires. Real life, love and all the things that happen in between are far from cut and dry, right and wrong. Mabie explores all of the shades of grey in a story that compels you from the very start to settle into her world, and fall in love with Blake and Casey. The amount of conflict within these pages will most likely cause you to mutter and scream at your e-reader! I kept trying to reason with them, but they’re characters in a story, so they never heard a GD word I was saying to them, that never the less deterred me from continually trying. I’m sure I looked like a total lunatic, while reading this book.
Meeting Casey, the sexy and confident, brew master, with the unruly hair that refuses to be tamed, ignites a fire within Blake she never knew was possible. From the very start, Blake is drawn to Casey like a moth to a flame. Casey is drawn to Blake in the same way, oblivious to the pain it will cause him. The passion is white hot. One night, is never going to enough for them, its’ supposed to be a one night stand, and a way to take the edge off. The only hiccup in this scenario is that Blake is a very serious relationship with a man, whom for the most part is completely oblivious to who she really his. Cory is safe, level headed, practical, predictable, reliable and comfortable. Casey is the complete polar opposite; he’s adventurous, spontaneous, hot tempered, and sexy beyond words, passionate and a free spirit.
“Cory was attractive and Casey was perfect.”
But where these two men differ the most, is in their understanding of the woman they both love. To their credit, the Blake that exists in each of their worlds’ could not be more different. Blake is torn from day one between, who she thinks she should be, what she believes is expected of her, and who she really is and who she is becoming. She slips on and off her masks easily enough early in the story, but as her heart and her mind wage war with each other, it becomes painfully obvious to everyone involved, that this cannot possibly end well. Straddling both worlds, is dangerous and taking its toll on Blake and Casey. Both of their struggles are painful and yet completely understandable.
How do you choose between two men, when you believe deep down, that you do indeed love them both?
How do you turn your back on someone, you have completely fallen in love with, even if they’re going to destroy you?
“There was no turning back. I shouldn’t have, but I warned him. I should have stopped, I also knew that I wouldn’t. I couldn’t. It felt too right.”
The writing in Bait is flawless, the story so incredibly captivating that I became lost in it. I found myself becoming incredibly emotional, and overly sensitive to what was happening within the pages. I was so completely invested in the events unfolding in front of me that I forgot I was reading a book! Bait is written in dual perspectives alternating between Blake’s thoughts and feelings and Casey’s and this makes the story even more powerful and insightful. My heart ached and broke for both of them continuously. Ironically enough I had not one single ounce of sympathy for Cory, Blake’s fiancé…that should tell you something I think. I had no problem what so ever in choosing the man for Blake its Casey, it’s always going to be Casey. They are meant for each other. My husband was constantly consoling me, and reiterating that it would be okay, everything would work out it in the end…but here’s the catch… Bait ends in a MASSIVE cliff hanger! This first book is so incredibly fraught with passion, deception, lies, omissions of truth, heart break and grief that not only will you not have a choice but to devour it, you will be sitting in the corner rocking back and forth muttering to yourself while begging Mabie for the next book.
“What we had was only for us. It was undefinable. We were both slaves to it.”
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My heart aches for Casey!
📚Review📚Bait by M. MabieBait is the first book in The Wake Series🚨 SPOILERS 🚨I have mixed feelings about this one. I love the male main character, but can’t relate to the female character at all. She irritated me!So Blake and Casey meet each other one night through mutual friends. Both are in a relationship, but there’s a spark from the moment they see each other the first time. They start a friends with benefits from the beginning and it goes on for a year. Casey broke up with his girlfriend right after he met Blake, but she stay in the relationship with her boyfriend. Although it’s such a boring relationship, her boyfriend is like a robot.Casey and Blake love each other and it’s really not just a friends with benefits situation. Blake breaks Casey’s heart time after time. I got so irritated with her.I’ll have to read the next book in the series to find out if Blake can heal Casey’s heart.⭐️ 3.5🌶 4Recommend: If you don’t like infidelity stories this one is not for you.
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