The Bastard by Lisa Renée Jones: Review

I’m always excited when the new book comes out and I get to review it, especially when it’s a spinoff from a fabulous series like the Dirty Rich series. Releasing today is the first book of a two part story that has proven to be quite delectable. Here are my thoughts.

The Bastard by Lisa Renée Jones
Series: Filthy Duet (Book 1)
Publisher: Independently published (November 10, 2018)
ISBN-13: 978-1731114464

ABOUT:
I’m the bastard child, son to the mistress, my father’s backup heir to the Kingston empire. He sent me to Harvard. I left and became a Navy SEAL, but I’m back now, and I finished school on my own dime. I’m now the right hand man to Grayson Bennett, the billionaire who runs the Bennett Empire. I’m now a few months from being a billionaire myself. I don’t need my father’s company or his love. My “brother” can have it. I will never go back there. I will never be the mistake my father made, the way he was the mistake my mother made.

And then she walks in the door, the princess I’d once wanted more than I’d wanted my father’s love. She wants me to come back. She says my father needs to be saved. I don’t want to save my father but I do want her. Deeply. Passionately. More than I want anything else. But she’s The Princess and I’m The Bastard. We don’t fit. We don’t belong together and yet she says he needs me, that she needs me. We’re like sugar and spice, we don’t mix, but I really crave a taste. Just one. What harm can just one taste do?

The Bastard by Lisa Renée Jones

Normally I am all over anything by Lisa Renée Jones, however the book proved a little different than her normal series that I read. A spinoff from the Dirty Rich series, The Bastard did not immediately give me that all in feeling. It has some quirks that are bugging me.

The main one is Eric. I love Eric. He is a sexy, steamy hunk of a guy but he has a huge chip on his shoulder about the fact that he hates his family. Normally that wouldn’t bug me. However, it has crossed over into his potential relationship with his “stepsister” and he uses it as a cross to bear throughout the book.

Every conversation seemed to come back to the same argument about how he’s a bastard and she is the princess and can do no wrong. He just keeps repeating the same thing over and over.

But bringing these two together definitely brings on the heat. Eric is deliciously domineering and he loves this princess to no end, even though he doesn’t want to admit it. But the heat and the connection is definitely there between these two.

This book does end on a cliffhanger which is frustrating to no end but I’m confident that in the conclusion hopefully Eric will mellow out and show his true feelings in the way that only this author can bring it to fruition. Thus making me smile all the way through! Bring on Book 2!

* note – you do not have to read the Dirty, Rich series to enjoy this one, but you should because it is awesome!

Disclaimer: Chris has personally reviewed the product listed above. She has not received any monetary compensation for her review but did receive a free ebook so she could evaluate and use it for this post. Her thoughts & opinions in this review are unbiased & honest and your opinions may differ.