Heroine
Heat Factor: This game of “truth or dare” got p-r-e-t-t-y daring
Character Chemistry: More told than shown, at least until they start with the sexytimes
Plot: Longtime friends meet up at wedding and play a game of “truth or dare” that changes everything
Overall: There’s a lot of expository text, but the games they played were enough to keep me turning pages
Holidays with the Wongs, Book 1
Heat Factor: It starts with a pretty hot one-night stand, but it’s also not heavily detailed
Character Chemistry: “I really kind of wish I hadn’t let that one-night stand just be a one-night stand.”
Plot: Two adults have one-night stand. Oops! Same two adults are set up on dates with different people at a family Thanksgiving dinner.
Overall: Totally warm fuzzy cute fun
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.
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