✰ Bianca ✰ Janeane ✰ 
• 4 June 2018
• M/M/M Romance!
• Book #2 in the Confessions Series
• M/M/M Romance!
• Book #2 in the Confessions Series
★★★★★
4.75 Fangirl Stars
People are complex.
Love a double-edged sword.
And when it comes to a broken heart, there are no rules, only time…
For the past eight years, Julien Thornton has been living with a secret. One that only a handful of people know about.
To the outside world, he has it all.
A thriving career. A loving husband. And a face that the American public fell for by the millions, on a reality show that inadvertently saved his life.
But behind the shine of celebrity, behind the easygoing nature, a crippling truth fills Julien with pain and self-loathing. It’s a truth that he fights to overcome daily with the help of his husband, Joel Priestley, and now their boyfriend, Robbie Bianchi.
But unlike Priest, Robbie doesn’t know what he’s helping Julien to fight. He doesn’t know what Julien did all those years ago. And with the anniversary of his sister’s death fast approaching, the time for explanations is running out.
And thus the question: will the princess be able to forgive the prick as the priest once did?
ARC recevied for an honest review
Mon Dieu! I am back with the three P's and I don't ever want to leave!
You will need to have read Robbie before picking up Julien, because the story follows right from the end of the first book. Plus, you don't want to miss any of the UST between Robbie, Julien and Priest.
Mon Dieu! I am back with the three P's and I don't ever want to leave!
You will need to have read Robbie before picking up Julien, because the story follows right from the end of the first book. Plus, you don't want to miss any of the UST between Robbie, Julien and Priest.
I really liked that this is more of the "getting to know you" stage of their relationship. We have gone through the attraction and lust, now this is the falling in love part.
Le sigh.
There is so much more to my guys than we ever thought, therefore Julien delves more into the pasts of our tempting trio than Robbie did.
I really, really loved seeing Robbie come out of his shell - well, more than His Fabulousness already was. We see behind the guyliner and the amazing clothes to the man to the real guy. I never though I could love Monsiuer Bianchi anymore than I already did.
We also have some great set up for Priest's story too.
Priest... forgive me Father for I have sinned. I have had lustful thought over you, your husband and your boyfriend!
I am really looking forward to Priest's book - please dont' make me wait too long!
We're back in the world of our darlings Logan & Tate! Well, not really - this is a spin-off thingy, but we all met and fell for Robbie & Priest & Julien in the Temptation series ....
If you haven't read TRY & TAKE & TRUST & TEASE & TATE & TRUE you should definitely do it!!
And obviously you should have read CONFESSIONS: ROBBIE - because this is a trilogy which began with Robbie's book!
Julien!
Book #1 ended with Robbie ringing the doorbell, ready to move in with his two boyfriends Julien and Priest.
Tonight he'd come to these men - his men - and as he fell asleep beside them, he knew he was exactly where he was supposed to be. Robbie Bianchi was finally home.
But he couldn't have come at a worse time. Priest just got a call about his past. And Julien is also preoccupied with something in his past. But our darling Robbie is just the right person those two need to calm down a bit and not go crazy in these hard times.
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Finally book #2!
I really enjoyed reading this book.
Those 3 boys are just sooo adorable! All three completely different but so perfect for each other!
And this time Robbie has his hands full with Priest and Julien. More Julien though. He's in a bad, sad, sorrowful, grieving, gulity mood at the moment because his sister's death's 'anniversary' is coming closer. And he's not dealing well. Just like every year since she died eight years ago. But Robbie is an immense help for Priest. Robbie knows just what to do and say and not ask in those situations. Adorable!
Julien cooks, you worry about the important stuff, and I make everything sparkle.
And next to Julien's problems, Priest's problems - which were already mentioned at the end of book 1 - they're almost here now. We'll learn more about it in book #3. And to say Robbie is a bit shocked about it all, is a huge understatement!
CAN'T WAIT to read that last book!!!!
OK, what can I say to wrap this review up?
JULIEN was a VERRRY EROTIC and adorable and funny and moving story.
But our three boys will have a LOT more to deal with in the next book!
The tiny little things that still bother me - but that's just me. The fact that the book is not written in the first person POV! With all those male I's HE's HIM's HIS's - it's so complicated sometimes to understand who is saying or thinking something!
Also - still not a fan of Priest's hair color!!! And he's my favorite of those 3 guys. But the hair!!! Ugh!
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♥ EXCERPT ♥
Chapter One
CONFESSION
Those who are meant to be yours
will always find you.
“WE MEET again, Mr. Thornton.”
A shiver of awareness raced up Julien Thornton’s spine as he
stood in the jail cell of a downtown L.A. police station where he’d been thrown
around an hour ago for public intoxication.
He didn’t need to turn to know who was on the opposite side
of those steel bars. That voice was the one he’d been hoping to hear when he’d
made his “one call” and left a message after a generic voicemail. That voice?
It had been on his mind since the last time he’d heard it, nearly two weeks
earlier when he’d met—and attempted to steal the car of—a man who called
himself Priest.
Julien pivoted on his heels, and when he did, he realized
that he’d grossly underestimated the impact that Joel Priestley had had on him
the first time around.
Oui, he hadn’t been able to stop thinking about him, that
was true, and oui, he might’ve purposely provoked the police officer tonight
hoping he’d end up needing a lawyer. But Dieu, he’d forgotten the way Priest
made his body respond. Like an inferno was licking through his veins.
With auburn hair, stormy eyes, and a presence that Julien
gravitated toward like a magnetic force, he didn’t think anything could prepare
a person for the powerful energy Priest exuded. Not to mention that cool,
judgmental stare of his.
But Julien had no one to blame for that judgment but
himself. Maybe if they didn’t always meet at the end of one of his week-long
benders, he could have the upper hand with this man for once. And wouldn’t that
be délicieux, he thought, as he looked at the lawyer who’d dropped him home two
weeks before, instead of at the police station like he’d originally threatened.
Priest was as put together now, at three in the morning, as
he had been that afternoon in the alley. Suited up in a tailored navy number
that framed his broad shoulders and emphasized the rich color of his hair, he
looked sharp, controlled, and dangerous to Julien’s already unstable state of
mind as he stood there sizing him up with an unreadable expression.
“I’m curious,” Priest finally said, as he clasped his hands
behind his back and took a step closer to the cell where Julien had spent most
of the night sobering up. “Did you not understand me the last time we spoke?”
Julien clenched his jaw and wondered if Priest realized how
condescending he sounded when he spoke—or just how much it turned Julien on.
“Non. I understood just fine.”
“Then what part of ‘I won’t be so lenient next time’ made
you think that calling me to bail you out of here was a good idea?”
Julien was still trying to work that out himself, but
thought it might have something to do with the fact that he was drawn to this
man. There was something about Priest that made him feel alive, when all he’d
felt for months now was dead inside.
When Julien didn’t respond, Priest cocked his head, studying
him closely, the disapproval rolling off him in waves. “Are you that hard up
for a date that this was the only way you could think to get one?”
Putain, the man was arrogant. But for reasons Julien
couldn’t explain, that seemed to make him all the more appealing. “You’re the one
who gave me your card the last time we met. Perhaps it’s you who are hard up
for a date, monsieur. Giving your number out to—”
“Criminals?” Priest frowned. “No. That’s called smart
business acumen, considering I’m a criminal attorney.”
Julien scoffed. “I’m hardly a criminal.”
“Really?” Priest said, and took his time examining the
six-by-eight space Julien currently stood in. He then leaned forward and said
in a lowered voice, “Your current situation tells a different kind of story.”
Despite his “current situation,” and the reason he’d gotten
himself into it, Julien felt his lips curve, and he realized exactly why he was
drawn to Priest. He possessed the one thing that Julien had been looking
for—the ability to take his mind off the black hole his life had become. “Maybe
it’s le destin.”
“And what does that mean? Destiny?” Priest straightened and
brought his arm around to check the time. “I doubt destiny has anything to do
with it. A more likely scenario is that I was your only option.”
“Even if that’s true,” Julien said as he wrapped his fingers
around the bars, “you came anyway.”
“As I said before, it’s my job.”
“At three in the morning?”
“At any hour of the morning,” Priest said, and then looked
down the hallway that was devoid of anything other than dreary off-white tiles
and horribly bright fluorescent lighting. “I’m going to go and see if I can get
you out, and then you and I are going to have a talk.”
Something about the way Priest said you and I made Julien’s
pulse race, and as Priest went to walk away, Julien whispered, “J’ai vraiment
hâte,” and the ever-so-serious lawyer stopped in his tracks and looked back.
This time when those eyes roamed over Julien, his breath
caught. There was nothing cool about that stare now. There was heat, interest,
and an intensity that made Julien’s fingers tighten around the bars before
Priest cut the connection and walked away.
Julien watched him go until he disappeared around the end of
the hall, and then he released his breath on a rush. Merde. He’d never been so
attracted to someone in all his life, and as he stood there waiting for Priest
to save him yet again, Julien knew he needed to stop what he was thinking.
There was no way in hell he deserved someone like
that. Non, no way at all. That didn’t, however, stop him from counting down the
minutes until Priest returned to him…
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Ella Frank is the USA Today Bestselling author of the Temptation series, including Try, Take, and Trust and is the co-author of the fan-favorite contemporary romance, Sex Addict. Her Exquisite series has been praised as “scorching hot!” and “enticingly sexy!”
Some of her favorite authors include Tiffany Reisz, Kresley Cole, Riley Hart, J.R. Ward, Erika Wilde, Gena Showalter, and Carly Phillips.
