JUST A BIT CRUSHED ALESSANDRA HAZARD

4* These books are such a guilty pleasure, so un-PC, and 🔥 🔥 🔥 

There are a few inconsistencies with Cam being British or German, but this isn't a series about accuracy. Surprisingly, the F1 info does seem pretty accurate and the scenes realistic, so maybe the author's a fan.

So, we get more of the same hot, sexy, un-PC stuff that we all read AH for, but here, it's maybe more than most, as Cam's unapologetically homophobic at the start. He's not a hater, he just doesn't mingle with anyone who's not straight and they don't feature on gus radar. He's also pretty rude and unsociable. So when he falls, it's great that he falls hard. His mindset, shared by pretty much all AH's alpha leads, is that he's not attracted to a guy, and getting blown by a guy doesn't make him gay... so no change from the modus operandi. 

The sex is shit hot. I've read all the books and I think this surpasses Roman's one and the one with the Arab lead. Seemingly there's not a lot Scott won't do for Cam, but of course, it's not two-way. AH's alphas don't go there, which is an irritant and hypocritical, but it's what I expect from her. Calling Scott's pecs 'tits' is deliberate by Cam, as well as the 'something scorchingly hot' that he does, and it enforces the toxic masculinity stereotype. But, it's AH's thing and it works. 

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