Heat Factor: The fire is banked.
Character Chemistry: It’s that snapping, snarling: “I hate you and everything you stand for, so why am I so horny around you?”
Plot: Trying to keep everyone’s heads attached to their bodies during the Reign of Terror
Overall: This book would have benefited significantly from better editing.
Heat Factor: It’s a slow and scorching burn
Character Chemistry: It comes on slow and then BAM
Plot: Megan and Scarlett were BEST friends but had a falling out. When their old friend begs them to attend her wedding in Quebec, they agree to pool resources in order to roadtrip there. And boom goes the dynamite.
Overall: This book had me up until 2 am and I wasn’t even mad about it.
Continue reading “Review: Hairpin Curves by Elia Winters (2020)”
Heat Factor: HOT
Character Chemistry: The bump along grumpily until they bump along quite happily
Plot: Ingrid (not me), a driven, smart, fierce New York transplant, runs into her high school dance date from Indiana at a work mixer. Noah, in New York on his summer break in an effort to make his brewery dream a reality, is immediately drawn to his “snooty” and slightly abrasive classmate.
Overall: I spent the whole time on the edge of my seat wondering how in the heck these two memorable characters were going to pull this off.
Continue reading “Review: Ten Week Turnabout by Amelia Rose (2020)”Originally published in the anthology For Love and Liberty: Untold Love Stories of the American Revolution.
Heat Factor: Just a little bit warm
Character Chemistry: Surprisingly believable emotional connection considering the length
Plot: Two enslaved Black people choose opposite sides in the Revolution and find themselves thrown together in a British encampment
Overall: The depth in this short story was marvelous
Bareknuckle Bastards, Book 3
Review of Bareknuckle Bastards, Book 2
Heat Factor: Very sexy
Character Chemistry: If you’re looking for a 380-page grovel, you’ve come to the right place
Plot: Stay with me – He tried to kill her when they were kids – Stay with me! – Now he’s a fraudulent duke – Stay with me – And she’s the queen of the Covent Garden criminal underground
Overall: MacLean nailed the close on this trilogy.
