Modern Love, Book #2
Heat Factor: Sweet and awkwardly real
Character Chemistry: Two-way pining is the best!
Plot: #planebae reimagined
Overall: This book is so excellent! Read it!
Review: Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai (2020)
Tag: Uptown Girl
Review: Holding Pattern by Jennifer W. Smith (2020)
Landing in Love, Book #2
Heat Factor: closed door
Character Chemistry: Instant tingles → “I haven’t felt this way in forever…or ever.”
Plot: Billionaire entrepreneur needs to chill out, lobsterman can help with that
Overall: Easy breezy
Review: Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (2019)
The Brown Sisters, Book 1
Heat Factor: P-r-e-t-t-y steamy
Character Chemistry: They spend a ton of time together so it’s very good.
Plot: Near death experience triggers desire for living more fully; very good-looking super helps
Overall: I’m in squee territory
Review: Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas (1994)
Gamblers duology, Book #2
Heat Factor: Toe-curling
Character Chemistry: Mousy woman with steel spine brings worldly man low, and he’s totally into it
Plot: “We come from different worlds so I’m going to save you from yourself by refusing to be with you even though it’ll kill me to live without you.”
Overall: It’s basically a replacement for chocolate.
Dueling Review: Priest by Sierra Simone (2015)
If Holly were to review this book, she would call it a Recommended Read. If Ingrid were to review this book, she would write a Rant. Clearly, we needed to review this book together.
Welcome to Dueling Reviews.
Moderated by Erin, who has no emotional investment in this book at all.
Ingrid’s Take:
Heat Factor: It’s scorching…which is fitting, because with the stuff these two pulled in a Catholic church they may very well end up somewhere toasty.
Character Chemistry: I don’t dig what they dig…but they dig it, and each other, a LOT.
Plot: Catholic priest ends up attracted to a woman who is apparently irresistible but has no hobbies or interests or personality and they end up finding a new, sexy spiritual path together.
Overall: This book has some majorly interesting dynamics but I had to put it down out of sheer frustration many times (and not the FUN kind of frustration, either).
Holly’s Take:
Heat Factor: Absolutely filthy, in the best way
Character Chemistry: Father Bell would have chemistry with a cardboard box
Plot: Catholic priest has sex, angst ensues
Overall: I had so much fun reading this book
Review: Hurts to Love You by Alisha Rai (2018)
Forbidden Hearts, Book 3
Heat Factor: For as raunchy as the sex is, there is not nearly enough of it.
Character Chemistry: They are too busy having Feelings about their Complicated Family Drama to actually interact that much.
Plot: She’s had a crush on him since forever. He’s had a crush on her since…last month. Now they are in a wedding together at a secluded cabin in the woods.
Overall: Too. Much. Angst.
Review: Brazen and the Beast by Sarah MacLean (2019)
Bareknuckle Bastards Series, Book #2
Heat Factor: I love the way MacLean writes sex. A+
Character Chemistry: The bickering-because-I’m-into-you is great
Plot: bananas
Overall: I wouldn’t mind being Hattie
