Heat Factor: It’s pretty hot. Except for the chlamydia. Chlamydia is not hot.
Character Chemistry: He fills her, pussy and heart (which might be one of my favorite lines EVER)
Plot: Chlamydia brings people together
Overall: Undeniably fun
The Rajes, Book 2
Review of The Rajes, Book 1
Heat Factor: Fade to black
Character Chemistry: Swoon-worthy
Plot: Ashna enters a cooking competition in a bid to save her floundering restaurant, only to discover that her competition partner is her high school boyfriend slash love of her life.
Overall: If you can power through the angst, the payoff is so worth it
Final Hour Series, Book 2
Reviews of Final Hour Prequel; Final Hour Book 1
Heat Factor: Sex on a boat! Not super explicit after the first time.
Character Chemistry: Loved these two together
Plot: Field operative can’t keep his eyes off quiet analyst…and then she’s framed as the mole!
Overall: I avoided doing anything on a Sunday in favor of reading this whole book at once.
Final Hour Series, Book 1
Erin’s review of the Final Hour Prequel Novella
Heat Factor: I’m just gonna go grab that fan over there…
Character Chemistry: They’re so angsty about each other! SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE AAARGH!
Plot: “I’ve got to stop a bioweapon from being unleashed and, what do you know, I need to use the ex-fiancé I thought was dead in order to do it!”
Overall: This book is what romantic suspense should always be.
Heat Factor: So pure. Like, shy first kisses pure.
Character Chemistry: Off the charts.
Plot: Teen boy has no interest in dating, is dared by his peers to date anyone who asks. Other teen boy asks.
Overall: I am dying of the sweetness.
Heat Factor: It’s cold in Iron Age Scotland in February. Gotta do something to keep warm!
Character Chemistry: Him: “I need a woman so my village doesn’t die out. You’ll do.” Her: “Look at those yummy biceps! Did you say something?”
Plot: Druid magic sends Connall to San Francisco, where he places a Craigslist ad for a wife. Ashley answers because her current life suuuucks and ends up in 2nd century Scotland.
Overall: This book is ridiculous and I was utterly tickled.
South Beach Romance, #1
Heat Factor: SPICY, SPICY, SPICY, but don’t worry because the hero is a tall drink of cold water.
Character Chemistry: These guys are opposites in a lot of ways but it’s all complimentary if you know what I mean…
Plot: A PR specialist struggling with PTSD from a stalker and kidnapping agrees to take on a very, very delicious cinnamon roll of a professional chef as he works to open his first restaurant. Sexy Chef Will creates the sexiest of safe spaces for Brett, who in turn takes a man who wants to hide and helps him shine just the way he is. (SIGH…)
Overall: This book just did something to me–it was sexy, sweet, vulnerable, funny, sassy. I felt things.
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