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The Rajes, #4
Reviews of The Rajes, Book #1, Book #2, and Book #3
Heat Factor: They have a lot of sex, but it’s almost entirely fade to black.
Character Chemistry: They critique each other out of love.
Plot: They’re working together to make the world a better place, but their families would have a conniption if they dated.
Overall: A nice finish to a solid series.
Heat Factor: The door closes early! And I don’t often feel this way, but it’s actually disappointing because there’s a lot of possibility there for building the relationship during those scenes.
Character Chemistry: I honestly didn’t care what else was happening when Finn kept saying “my wife” (swoon!)
Plot: Woke up married (Irish tourist edition) plus Hollywood politics drama
Overall: The epilogue is from the dog’s perspective. 😐
The Friendship Chronicles, #1
Heat Factor: It’s low heat, but only because the hero and heroine aren’t in the same room together all that much.
Character Chemistry: When they ARE in the same room, hooo…it’s fluttery.
Plot: Rae loves shoes and ends up making a “risk list” to push her to open her life up to happiness—and one of those items seems to keep circling back to her college love, Jake.
Overall: This was absolutely more of a Women’s Lit than Romance because Rae’s dealing with so many other plot critical things—but it’s fun, romantic, and makes your heart swell up.
Heat Factor: It’s pretty sexy. Except for the book with the demisexual protagonist, which is a slower burn, these guys have a lot of sex. Some of it is kinky funtimes, too.
Character Chemistry: The chemistry between the protagonists largely worked for me (I mean, I binged this series HARD, so something was working)
Plot: Navy SEALs navigate queer love in a macho-type workplace while dealing with work-related hurdles and personal dramas
Overall: I’m not always one for the military romance (though more me than Holly or Ingrid), but this series totally did it for me.
Continue reading “Series Review: Out of Uniform Series by Annabeth Albert (2017)”Blood and Bone, Book #2
Review of Blood and Bone, Book #1
Heat Factor: It’s hot but it’s also really deep and intense.
Character Chemistry: Having been a Team Mia fan in the first book, I am shocked to find myself fully team Erin in this one.
Plot: Having researched and ghostwritten singer Jack’s memoir, Erin is stuck in a situation of her own making–she’s fallen in love with her subject, he’s famous, and she’s pretty sure he’s still in love with his late lifelong love and bandmate Mia.
Overall: This was such a satisfying ending to the first book–Mia and Jack’s happily ever after is hard-earned, slow, and satisfying.
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