Rochelle ♡'s Reviews > Cavalier

I don’t know what happened when reading this. Cavalier sounded promising with an enticing blurb that offered salacious deviance, an exclusive club setting, a dismissive hero, a feisty heroine and one explosive relationship. However, reading this made me so frustrated with everything that happened between Creed and Elicea.

I couldn’t connect with either character nor their relationship. It disappoints me because I loved Kandiland! Majority of this narrative is revolved around Creed and Elicea’s instant attraction towards each other in between some intimate scenes. I couldn’t step inside these characters’ heads, to feel that same attraction; to understand the inexplicable draw towards each other.

Creed doesn’t care, doesn’t have any feelings. He’s completely cavalier about everything, or so he says.

Creed is described as being quite aloof; the quintessential tall, dark and handsome brooding type. While this is an appealing characterisation, it didn’t work with Creed as these attributes were mentioned far too often they lost all lustre. I found Creed neither compelling nor enigmatic, because it felt as if an insignificant amount of information was disclosed about his personality. When we eventually learned more about this complicated character, it was repetitive detail.

On one hand, I appreciated Elicea—she’s a strong-willed woman with thriving independence and rooted pride. She realised her limits and understood them, believing that hard work is more fulfilling than accepting easy options and handouts, no matter how charming and spellbinding Creed is. However, on the other, she’s stubborn beyond anything else.

He's like heaven and hell wrapped in a package that was made purely for me.

‘Complicated’ isn’t an accurate word to describe this couple’s relationship. Sexual tension between Creed and Elicea created a desirable build up, otherwise they played a constant game of push and pull, or they’d keep running away from each other rather than have a mature conversation. Creed's friends—Echo, Darby and Falcon—are, too, immature asshats. One second they're vilifying Elicea, the next they want Elicea back with Creed.

I despised the ending trope. Without giving much information away, it felt easy. Cheap, a convenient excuse to bring the couple together. It added virtually nothing, sad to say.



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