Devil's Temptation Book

This book checks all the romance boxes, which is great if that's all you want! I loved the characters, and the added "who dun it" was a fun twist on the typical romance. Gabriel and Maura had off the charts chemistry and a pseudo-enemies to lovers origin ("pseudo" because they aren't *exactly* enemies per se).

The two tropes I disliked that appeared in the novel:
1. It's one of those romances where she's keeping secrets for pretty much the entire book. Open communication is more my thing. And it even had one of those "she almost tells him but then he figures it out on his own and gets angry" moments. Like COME ON.
2. I know "the heroine almost dies at the hands of the villain because she encountered them alone" is typical, but it was kind of disappointing. It was obvious it was going to happen, and I was overwhelmed with this desire for Logan to have tried something new. Not her fault, but still.

Another thing: I figured out who the villain was about half way through the book, I'm sure there were earlier signs that I missed, and yet Gabriel and Maura didn't figure it out until nearly the end. (Maura doesn't until she's actively confronted by the the villain and even then he has to literally tell her he's the villain.) I wish Logan hadn't made it so so obvious to the reader so much before the characters themselves figured it out.

All of that said, this book does really check off all of the things we'd want in a romance. There's even some oddly mean dirty talk? (It was while they were still pseudo-enemies.) And, to be fair, some people love the tropes Logan played on. Overall, a great romance.