Review: Tell Me You Need Me by Joya Ryan (Search and Seduce #1)


Note: This ARC was provided by Entangled Publishing in exchange for an honest review.

For the past two years, Gage McGraw and Chloe Franklin have been hooking up each time Gage finds himself Chloe's hometown of Beaufort. After a near-death experience forces Gage to take stock of his life, he decides it's time to pursue something more with Chloe...only Chloe isn't prepared to give him what he wants. The fact that they were both anti-commitment was one of the things that drew them together, after all, so Gage's decision to switch things up has Chloe wary and anxious. She refuses to sit around and wait for Gage to come back to her each and every time he leaves and she knows that if she agrees to what he wants, that's what she'll end up doing. She wants to maintain the status quo between them but Gage wants a relationship, even if it is a long-distance one. It's a battle of wills that neither one is prepared to lose at.

Author Joya Ryan has a new contemporary romance series entitled Search and Seduce and she starts it off with Tell Me You Need Me, a love story between two people who were each other's constant hook-up for a couple of years before Gage McGraw informs Chloe Franklin that he wants more. I liked that it was the male lead character who wanted to pursue a more committed relationship because female lead characters tend to be the ones who demand or look for that shift after a certain amount of time has passed. Gage and Chloe have a purely physical on-going affair and even though Chloe hasn't slept with anyone else since her first time with Gage, she refuses to see what they have as an actual relationship, albeit a purely sexual one. There are reasons for their respective stances, putting them at odds with each other for the first time ever.

I really liked Gage and Chloe as a couple and I did feel that they had that necessary chemistry that went beyond the physical. I did find myself frustrated with both of them when it came to whether or not they should pursue a commitment to one another. Gage couldn't seem to clue in as to why Chloe was resistant even after his best friend both hinted and laid everything out more than once. Then there was Chloe who was insistent on keeping it just about sex and walking away whenever things became too emotionally intense. However, I could more than appreciate the parallels between the whole deal with cooking and their pursuit of an actual relationship and who everything had to be about taking their time, though that ending did feel like it was suddenly on fast forward. Tell Me You Need Me was a 4.5-starred series starter. ♥

Release Date: 16 November 2015

Date Read: 14 November 2015

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