Heat Factor: Closed door
Character Chemistry: When he kisses you, you know
Plot: Pride and Prejudice, from the servants’ perspective
Overall: This is a great read
Review: Longbourn by Jo Baker (2013)
Tag: Servant / Slave Hero
Hero – Specifically position of servitude – not corporate assistant – includes footmen, butlers, valets, other household staff or personal servants
Review: The Leopard Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt (2007)
Premium Journals, Book #2
Heat Factor: Animalistic. But like, in a sexy way.
Character Chemistry: Confusing for everyone involved. Until it’s not.
Plot: Lady Georgina decides that she wants to sex her steward. Also someone is killing sheep.
Overall: This was Hoyt’s second book, and the pieces of what make her later books so great are there, but they’re not quite fully developed yet. Still bonkers and fun.
Review: Blood of the Land by Adrik Kemp (2016)
Heat Factor: There’s a lot of sex. It’s graphic. And most of it isn’t between the protagonists.
Character Chemistry: So, the book isn’t actually focused on Mack and Jason’s relationship as such
Plot: Sociopath vampires wreak havoc on a ranch in colonial Australia. And then it’s the 90s.
Overall: WUT
Review: Be Not Afraid by Alyssa Cole (2016)
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
Review: Jake’s Redemption by Jamie Schulz (2019)
The Angel Eyes Series, Prequel
Heat Factor: Let’s fix your sexual trauma by having sex!
Character Chemistry: She literally owns him.
Plot: There’s a lot going on, and also kind of nothing at all.
Overall: Unfortunately, this book committed the cardinal sin of being not that fun.
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