Widow – The Smut Report

Review: A Winter Rose by Amy Craig (2021)

September 3, 2021September 3, 2021 Ingrid

Heat Factor: It’s a slowish burn but hooo boy, it gets steamy.

Character Chemistry: It’s pretty instantaneous but there are SO MANY WALLS

Plot: Julien’s bike breaks down in Eliza’s small town at the exact moment she desperately needs help to keep her flower farm going–it’s like kismet. But both Julien and Eliza have so many legitimate barriers to being together (and surviving!) that it’s hard to see how they’re going to make it work.

Overall: Such a fantastically written book, just expertly knit together.

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Review: That Scandalous Summer by Meredith Duran (2013)

August 6, 2021July 30, 2021 Holly

Heat Factor: 🍆🍆🍆

Character Chemistry: Instant attraction → Denial → We can have just one night → Is this…love? → BUT DUTY!!!

Plot: The set-up is bonkers and makes no sense, but who cares?

Overall: The back and forth between these two is just *chef’s kiss*

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Review: Devil in Disguise by Lisa Kleypas (2021)

July 27, 2021July 25, 2021 Erin

The Ravenels, Book #7

(a.k.a. The Wallflowers, The Next Generation, Book #3)

(a.k.a. The Devil in Winter Epilogues, also Book #3)

Heat Factor: These are some horny Victorians

Character Chemistry: It’s totally insta-love, and it was written lucidly enough that it worked for me

Plot: “We’ll never work because of an unequal match” + “Why is someone trying to murder me?”

Overall: I re-upped my membership in the Bad Decisions Book Club for this one and read it in one sitting. No regrets.

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Review: Flirting with Forever by Sara Ohlin (2021)

June 16, 2021 Ingrid

The Graciella Series, Book #3

Heat Factor: It’s kind of an instant, angry, heated clash and then it burns but in a more friendly and less publicly appropriate way

Character Chemistry: This is absolutely a case of matching wounds meeting matching wounds but it actually made sense to me…THIS TIME.

Plot: Cass is on the tail end of a deeply traumatic experience—so traumatic she loses her sense of smell, and unfortunately she’s a food writer. She regains it when a really attractive farmer accidentally throws manure all over her, and then they get in a really rude argument, and afterwards they pretty much start matching themselves right up in ways that are understandable and steamy.

Overall: This was a really sweet read and it did surprise me in a lot of lovely ways.

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Review: Catch a Falling Duke by Eve Pendle (2021)

June 8, 2021June 7, 2021 Holly

Fallen, Book #3

Heat Factor: Sex first, emotions later.

Character Chemistry: He lifts the weight from her shoulders, and she does the same for him.

Plot: Duke has existential crisis. Runs away. Meets lady farmer. Has sexy rumpus, realizes it’s love. And then works on her dairy farm for a year to prove himself.

Overall: I liked it, but I didn’t LOVE it.

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