true false top 25% +=500 center top 50% top 33% true 1 1 none 0.5 0 none center top 50% top 33% true 1 1 none 0.5 0 none center top 50% top 33% true 1 3 none 0.5 0 none center top 50% top 33% true 1 3 none 0.5 0 none

Book Author(s): Brigitte Knightley

The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy (Dearly Beloathed, book 1)

The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy book cover

This review contains affiliate links, which earn me a small commission when you click and purchase, at no extra cost to you. Thank you for supporting my small business and allowing me to continue providing you a reliable resource for clean book ratings.

From the publisher:

Osric Mordaunt, member of the Fyren Order of assassins, is in dire need of healing. Naturally — such is the grim comedy of fate — the only healer who can help is Aurienne Fairhrim, preeminent scientist, bastion of moral good, and member of an enemy Order.

Aurienne is desperate for funding to heal the sick — so desperate that, when Osric bribes her to help him, she accepts, even if she detests him and everything he stands for.

A forced collaboration ensues: the brilliant Woman in STEM is coerced into working with the PhD in Murders, much to Aurienne’s disgust. As Osric and Aurienne work together to heal his illness and investigate the mysterious reoccurrence of a deadly pox, they find themselves ardently denying their attraction, which only fuels the heat between them.

Romance tropes 
Enemies to lovers
High interaction slow burn
Hypercompetent idiots
He falls first and harder
Evisceration as a love language

Rapid Rating: High.

Profanity includes 38 uses of strong language, around 40 instances of moderate profanity, and about 5 uses of mild language. Sexual content includes frequent vulgar references and an extended self-pleasuring scene.

Click here to purchase your copy of The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy on Amazon. 

About Rapid Ratings

The Rapid Rating option allows Rated Reads to rate more books for content. A quick search of an e-book can show all instances of profanity and at least some of any sexual content or violence. Likely, most Rapid Ratings will be of books rated High.

Scroll to Top