Tag: Criminal Hero

Hero – explicitly engages or has engaged in illegal activity (other than hacktivist)

Review

Review: The Master by Kresley Cole (2015)

Erin

The Game Maker, Book #2

Review of The Game Maker, Book #1

Heat Factor: They have amazing kinky hate sex energy

Character Chemistry: The “I hate you but I really want to jump you” dynamic is EXCEPTIONAL

Plot: She needs money to stay on the run from her serial killer husband, so she steps in for her friend as a very expensive escort for a night. He is bowled over by her breath of fresh air in his luxurious but monotonous life, but he also thinks everything she says is a lie. So obviously they fall in love.

Overall: Combo of “What did I even just read?” and “That was amazing.”

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Review: Custom Made by Chantal Fernando (2021)

Erin

Fast & Fury, Book #2

Review of Fast & Fury, Book #1

Heat Factor: It’s not not sexy

Character Chemistry: I confess I’m not sold

Plot: Lots of expectation re honesty and owed information

Overall: I just…what even…I don’t know

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Review: The Professional by Kresley Cole (2014)

Erin

The Game Maker, Book #1

Heat Factor: These two are just so creative. 

Character Chemistry: It. Is. So. Angsty. 

Plot: Natalie is kidnapped from her bath by her heretofore unknown, sexy AF bodyguard and flown to meet her also heretofore unknown Billionaire Russian mobster father. And that’s just the first three chapters. 

Overall:

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Review: The Hitman by Katrina Jackson (2020)

Erin

The Family, Book #2

Heat Factor: I think sex on a public train car might be a first…

Character Chemistry: “I can trust a man who wants to protect me so he can fuck me. Your motives are clear.”

Plot: It looks like a mafia book, but it’s actually more like a road trip/heist book

Overall: This book is so unbelievably fun.

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Review: Permanent Ink by Avon Gale and Piper Vaughn (2018)

Erin

Heat Factor: When it’s hot it’s hot

Character Chemistry: They’re both immediately physically attracted, but it takes a while for everything else to sort itself out

Plot: Sulky, directionless new adult ends up figuring out his direction while apprenticing with his dad’s best friend

Overall: If I’m honest, I was only looking for something to study daddy kink romance, so my expectations were not high, but I really enjoyed this book

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