🎧 Reviewed by LD | Rating: 2.1/5 | Steam: 🔥🔥
⚠️ This is a full spoiler review. If you haven’t read Instant Gratification yet — go read it first. We’ll be here when you’re done.
The Opening
Book three of the Always Satisfied series and unfortunately my least favorite of the three — well, maybe that’s not really possible since I disliked them all. If Satisfaction Guaranteed disappointed me with a prologue that promised more than the book delivered, this one disappointed me by feeling like a Hallmark movie where everything is too perfect, everyone is too reasonable, and nothing has any real edge to it.
The Full Story — Spoilers Included
The Setup
Truly is Malone’s twin sister, which makes her Jason’s best friend’s sister and therefore strictly off limits. They have had simmering attraction for years and six months ago they slipped up and slept together. Truly has been trying to pretend it didn’t happen ever since. Jason very much wants it to happen again.
Jason needs a date for a series of weddings where he has been hired as a groomsman or best man. His original date just landed a Broadway spot and is gone. He makes a deal with Truly: she’ll be his date for the weddings and in exchange he’ll help her research for the bar expansion she’s been planning. We all know where this is going.
They attend a bar together for her research. A man starts talking to Truly and Jason gets visibly jealous and makes it obvious he wants to continue whatever they started six months ago. She is less enthusiastic.
Then they go to one of the weddings together and she turns out to be a good fake girlfriend. They end up hooking up and in the middle of having sex her phone rings and she hops off him to answer it. It’s the investor she’s been hoping to get for her bar expansion. She takes the call.
I mean. The timing alone.
She goes on afterward about being a workaholic and being proud of it, which is fair, but the phone moment is genuinely strange.
The Break
They decide to be together. Then Jason loses a job he thought he had secured and a guest spot falls through at the same time. He decides he has too much going on and his attention has been too spread out. He goes to Truly and tells her they should put things on hold and reassess when things settle down.
She agrees, not really, but tries to save face.
They run into Malone, who tells them they are being idiots. He thought they were coming to tell him they were officially together, so he tells them to smarten up.
A friend helps Truly understand that Jason is just spiraling. They have one last wedding to get through together that night and at the wedding Jason figures out how stupid he has been. He tells Truly he loves her and they need to be together. She agrees and decides she doesn’t want to be a workaholic anymore.
And then everything resolves perfectly. The bride from the wedding offers Jason his dream opportunity. The guest spot he thought he lost turns out not to have been lost at all — just a miscommunication because a new co-host position was opening and they couldn’t tell him yet. Every single loose end gets wrapped up in the most convenient way possible. Multiple epilogues follow. Seriously — multiple, and then a few more.
Best Part of This Book
Malone showing up and telling them both to stop being ridiculous was the most fun moment in the book, which probably tells you something about the rest of it.
Worst Part of This Book
Where to start. The full cast production includes singing. Actual singing. It was so unnecessary and added nothing. There are too many epilogues. And the whole thing has a Hallmark movie quality where everything is perfectly timed, everyone makes the right call eventually, and nothing feels like it has any real stakes. Jason’s professional crisis resolves itself. Their relationship crisis resolves itself. Everything wraps up with a bow in a way that felt more like a wish fulfillment checklist than an actual story.
The Steam Rating Breakdown
🔥🔥 — There’s a hookup, there’s some heat, but this is not a spicy book. The mid-sex phone call is probably the most memorable moment and for all the wrong reasons.
The Ending — Satisfied or Disappointed?
Disappointed. Not because it’s a sad ending — it isn’t. But everything resolves so perfectly and so conveniently that it never felt real enough to care about.
Would I Reread It?
No.
Who Is This For
If you loved books one and two and need to complete the series, here it is. If you loved the premise of Satisfaction Guaranteed’s prologue and are still chasing that feeling, this one won’t be it either. If Hallmark movies are genuinely your thing and you love a tidy everything-works-out ending with zero rough edges, you might enjoy this more than I did.
Where to Get
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More from the Always Satisfied Series
- Book 1 — Satisfaction Guaranteed | Reviewed by LD | ⭐ 2.3/5 | Steam: 🔥🔥🔥 — [Read the Review]
- Book 2 — Never Have I Ever | Reviewed by LD | ⭐ 1/5 | Steam: 🔥🔥🔥 — DNF at 50% — [Read the Review]
- Book 3 — Instant Gratification | Reviewed by LD | ⭐ 2.1/5 | Steam: 🔥🔥 — [Read the Review]
- Full Series Review — Is the Always Satisfied Series Worth Reading? — [Read the Review]
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