Shaken: The Martini Lounge
- 4.3 out of 5
- 53 ratings
- 150 pages
Overall Content Rating: Adults Only NC-17
This is an adult romance about a law student and bar owner who falls for a man she believes is a chauffeur but who is actually her prospective boss at a law firm. The plot mixes career secrets, club ownership, and an unstable ex who disrupts their relationship. Parents should expect romance and light thriller-adjacent drama, not a young-adult story. Language is frequent and adult throughout, with heavy mild and strong swearing and repeated harsh insults in tense moments. Sexual content is the dominant concern: explicit, detailed encounters between consenting adults occupy a large share of the book, with graphic description of acts and body parts. A brief scene involves a gun, a punch, and visible blood; there is no sustained graphic violence. Themes fit sexual content, profanity, and romance outside a purely sweet category; violence is minor by comparison.
Reviews first uploaded September 29, 2026 10:13 pm. Revised October 7, 2026 1:28 pm. Page updated October 7, 2026 1:28 pm.
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Crude Moderate
7Beyond general profanity, dialogue during intimacy includes blunt oral-sex requests and descriptions. Harsh gendered insults appear during jealousy and the weapon confrontation.
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Specific words
- suck: 7
Fbombs Heavy
57Strong four-letter language appears dozens of times, often clustered in sex scenes, arguments, and internal monologue. It is used both for emphasis and as part of explicit sexual talk between the main couple.
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Specific words
- fuck: 57
Profanity Heavy
114Swearing is woven through narration and dialogue from the opening chapters through the end, including workplace banter, breakups, and explicit intimacy. Besides very common mild expletives, characters use harsh name-calling toward an ex-partner, anatomical slang, and compound insults during a volatile scene with a gun.
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Specific words
- damn: 47
- hell: 20
- dick: 19
- shit: 8
- ass: 7
- goddamn: 6
- bitch: 5
- bullshit: 2
Sex Extreme
51This adult contemporary romance centers on immediate physical attraction between two professionals. The story includes many detailed on-page scenes of intercourse, oral sex, and foreplay, with graphic anatomical language, condom use in some scenes, and a stated desire for unprotected sex. Customer notes describe the central relationship as steamy and a major draw of the book.
Specific words
- cock: 19
- dick: 19
- cum: 7
- orgasm: 2
- bareback: 1
- clit: 1
- hooker: 1
- tit: 1
Violence Mild
2Most of the plot is romantic and professional drama. There is a short, intense confrontation in which an angry ex wields a gun, someone is punched, and blood is noticed afterward; police are called.
Amazon reviews mentioning violence
Specific words
- blood: 1
- punch: 1
About this book
There’s something to be said for lust at first sight. Redd wasn’t looking for Mr. Right but Mr. Right now. But the moment Nikko walked into her bar she felt that first rush of need. She wasn’t shy about getting what she wanted even if only for one night, which was all her chaotic lifestyle would allow. Besides, not many men wanted to date a woman who worked in a nightclub, even if she were the bartender. It tended to make them sneer. She didn’t know which was worse. When they found out she was part owner or when they found out she was a law student. That intimidated some. She didn’t really care. Nikko wasn’t looking for anyone. His life was full as the senior associate at a law firm and he just found out he was being considered for partnership. His life was about to become even busier. Then something happened that left him shaken. What should have been one night of uninhibited pleasure became a weekend, then it became more. How did that happen? And did he want it to stop? Shaken was previously part of the Club Prestige Collection. It is also book 1.5 in The Young Guns Series. Other books in The Martini Lounge Collection Shaken Stirred Frozen The books in this series can be read in any order. The Prison Guard’s Son Book 1 in The Young Guns Series Read more