Manwhore (Manwhore, #1) by Katy Evans
Series: Manwhore #1
Published by Gallery Books on March 24th 2015
Genres: Romance
Pages: 357
Format: ebook
Source: Bought
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Is it possible to expose Chicago’s hottest player—without getting played?

This is the story I've been waiting for all my life, and its name is Malcolm Kyle Preston Logan Saint. Don’t be fooled by that last name though. There’s nothing holy about the man except the hell his parties raise. The hottest entrepreneur Chicago has ever known, he’s a man’s man with too much money to spend and too many women vying for his attention.

Mysterious. Privileged. Legendary. His entire life he’s been surrounded by the press as they dig for tidbits to see if his fairytale life is for real or all mirrors and social media lies. Since he hit the scene, his secrets have been his and his alone to keep. And that’s where I come in.

Assigned to investigate Saint and reveal his elusive personality, I’m determined to make him the story that will change my career.

But I never imagined he would change my life. Bit by bit, I start to wonder if I'm the one discovering him...or if he's uncovering me.

What happens when the man they call Saint, makes you want to sin?

I’m gonna be totally honest and say that I did not have high hopes for Manwhore.  I’ve attempted to read a couple of Katy Evans’ books now and I DNF’d one and hated the other.  I thought maybe this just wasn’t an author for me but since I heard such great things about Manwhore, I thought I’d give her another shot.  While I certainly had some issues with Manwhore, I found myself pulled into the story and I’m glad I gave it a chance.

I was a little put off by the whole idea of the story with this one.  Rachel is tasked with uncovering all of Malcolm Saint’s secrets and exposing them to the world.  To do that, her boss suggests she gets close to him and get him to want her.  Now, admittedly, she doesn’t tell Rachel to get involved with the man but she implies it when she tells Rachel that she got the story because she was the only single woman at the magazine.  Rachel had no qualms with the idea of the expose on Saint until she started to get to know him.  I’m sorry but shouldn’t you have issues exposing someone’s secrets to the world, no matter who the person is? I was really not impressed with Rachel’s morals when it came to the whole article on Saint.

Rachel was, otherwise, a pretty easy to like girl.  She was very down to earth and she seemed like a pretty smart girl aside from this one assignment.  She had some solid friendships and her relationship with her mom was, while not very visible, apparently pretty great.  She didn’t have a male figure in her life growing up and so she seemed to cling to Saint for that reason, among others.  He made her feel safe and that wasn’t something she felt very often.  With her dad dying through violent means at such a young age, it shaped Rachel’s ideas of safety and it made her very vocal about preventing violence in Chicago.  I really did enjoy that side of her and wouldn’t mind seeing more of her ideas and development of that side of her in the second book.  I also look forward to seeing more about Gina in the following books.  She got under my skin pretty early on with this story but I do want to know more about her.  She was so against the idea of Saint that she wasn’t willing to give him any kind of chance with Rachel and she was actually downright rude to Rachel when she found out about their relationship.  I didn’t appreciate how she had to compare every man to her scumbag of an ex.  One broken heart didn’t seem like enough to warrant her hatred of the whole male species.

As for Saint, I can’t do justice to that man.  Sure, he’s a player and a womanizer but he seemed to make that very clear to every woman that got involved with him.  They sought him out for his body, his money, his fame, or other similar reasons.  They all knew what they were getting when they got in bed with him so I didn’t see any reason why he should be hated for that.  Once he started opening up to Rachel, he actually showed that he was a wonderful guy, he was just very closed off.  His family relationships weren’t great and he was very isolated for a good portion of his life.  He decided he didn’t like that and from that point on he made sure he was always surrounded by people.  Rachel’s expose couldn’t have had much meat to it because Saint didn’t have dark secrets, he just liked his privacy.

The ending totally threw me for a loop because I went into this one not realizing there would be a sequel.  My bad.  It is a bit of a cliffhanger but luckily the series is complete so you can do what I’m doing and just binge read them back to back.  I look forward to seeing what becomes of Rachel and Malcolm’s relationship in book 2 and learning more about all the characters!

Overall, Manwhore certainly could have used some improvements but it’s quite an enjoyable romance that will definitely leave you wanting more of Rachel and Malcolm.  I’m glad I didn’t completely write off Katy Evans.