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The Mortimers: Wealthy and Wicked, Book #5
Heat Factor: There’s some finger-banging in Chapter 1.
Character Chemistry: More benefits than enmity.
Plot: Something about their family companies signed a contract and Wren is trying to get out of it via half-hearted malicious non-compliance. Jasper wants to bone Wren and also work with her but also not renegotiate the contract so her company doesn’t get screwed. Maybe?
Overall: DNF
Unwritten Rules, Book #3
Reviews of Unwritten Rules Book #1 and Book #2
Heat Factor: If you’re looking for characters with ED due to medication with partners who are with them 100%, I have a book for you
Character Chemistry: Every time they were gutted, I was also completely gutted
Plot: Jake and Alex had a whirlwind rookie season, glued to each other, until it all crashed and burned. Ten years later, they’re forced back together on their old team for a last chance to win a championship ring.
Overall: I felt like Eeyore until the end, when I had all the warm fuzzies.
The Doomsday Books, Book #1
Heat Factor: We open with sex, then get a whole lotta feelings, and then some more sex toward the end.
Character Chemistry: Both the antagonism and the support hit perfectly.
Plot: Gareth inherits a barony, a house, and a whole lot of trouble with smugglers when his father dies. Luckily, Joss is only too happy to help him out.
Overall: An enjoyable read.
Heat Factor: Much is implied, little is on the page
Character Chemistry: Falling at first conversation
Plot: Romeo & Juliet, Medieval Kings Edition
Overall: Somehow I couldn’t put this book down, even though it’s not presented in a particularly suspenseful way
Ten Tiny Breaths, Book 3
Heat Factor: Sex is frequent but not super detailed; we get only the cursory information of what bits are naked and in contact.
Character Chemistry: Girl with daddy issues + older man with white knight syndrome
Plot: Charlie needs money to disappear so she gets a job as a stripper and starts a thing with her boss. Also she’s reluctantly running heroin.
Overall: The purity overtones were unreal.
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