Slick's review posted at Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews 
 4.5 stars 
 If Gina L. Maxwell's Shameless in any indication the Entangled Scorch line is unlike anything Entangled Publishing has put out before...holy smokes! I've read Ms. Maxwell in the past and thoroughly enjoyed her work but this book takes up the heat, smut and kink factor a notch or fifty and that's not a bad thing, I just want readers to realize that this is unlike anything she's written before. 
 Master's student and part-time waitress Jane has no time for dating, fun or a love-life although she does make time for a bit of self-love with her trusty Hitachi Magic Wand and her favorite porn sites, hey she's a modern gal so sue her! On a particularly bad night when she's trying to fix her sink, her best friend hires a handyman to come and help her, but the handyman is way more than she bargained for when it turns out Mr. Handyman is actually a stripper. Chance isn't use to women not wanting his attention so Jane intrigues him from the start and when he finds out her secret proclivities, well all bets are off or should I say all bets are on? 
 Let me be upfront and honest, Shameless is erotic romance...it almost tips the scales into erotica but we do get some romance and a HFN ending which is why it moves into the romance category. That's not a bad thing, this is a very sexual book with some kink thrown in for good measure but let me be clear these two have a lot of sex and often times their encounters are raw, rough and her kink is degradation and humiliation and he isn't afraid to provide it for her. (So be warned there is some very coarse language and some scenes that may be too much for readers who haven't been exposed to kink like this in their reading.) I love that she trusted him from the start to provide he with what she needed, but I also respected her for accepting her kink and finding someone who was strong enough to provide it. These were two very evenly matched characters and while the parameters of their "relationship" changed over the course of the book their need to explore their fantasies did not. 
 I love when an author can step out of her comfort zone and write something unexpected and Gina L. Maxwell did just that with Shameless and I can't wait to see what she has in store for the rest of the men from Playboys 4 Hire. 
 Review copy provided for an honest review.