Posts Tagged ‘Harlequin’

Kathleen O’Reilly is one of my new favoritest authors. I just finished Hot Under Pressure, and I laughed my (smart)ass off all the way through. Just buy this book. Or borrow it. Get out to the library and see if they have it.

Just do it.

Ashley Taylor owns a chain of boutiques and hates flying. And virtually every flight she’s on there seems to be one little cookie-filled monster after another. Then on one trip, David McLean gets the seat next to her and there’s a flight delay. After a little sex talk, they end up in the airport hotel. Va va va voom!

The sex and the jokes hardly ever end. When they’re fighting, Kathleen still finds a way to make you smile. It’s a feel-good book, that I highly recommend to anyone. Loved it, shared it with all my friends, and now I’ll read it again. Now THAT to me is the symbol of a good book.

carrie

5 tails out of 5

Hard to resist by Samantha Hunter is a Harlequin Blaze. Hot and steamy oh yes. So can you have hot steamy sex AND a good story? Absolutely.

Heroine Lacey Graham is photographer for Bliss magazine. Her assignment? A photo shoot with twelve heroic hunks. Gosh, does that sound like a boring assignment or what? Makes me want to drop my day job and learn how to run a lens.

Hero Jarod Wyatt is a Texas Ranger who’s chosen to participate as one of the hunky heros. Gotta love a man in Wranglers and a cowboy hat eh?

There’s thrills and chills and plot twists galore. The sexual tension between Jarod and Lacey is hot hot hot. The sub plots are spine tingling and the secondary characters add a whole new dimension to the story.

Very enjoyable read. 4 out of 5 donkey tails

I love Stephanie Bond. I’ve read most of her books and enjoy her sense of humor. Until I got to this one. It stopped me cold.

The premise is a group of ladies who start a book club with a little added spice. The librarian, Gabrielle Pope, is nearing 40 and challenges the other women of the group to take their favorite erotic book and make it real. Find themselves a man to practice it on, so they don’t end up like her. She’s not even 40 for pete’s sakes! Sorry, for me the premise just doesn’t make sense. As a matter of fact, I moaned and groaned throughout the book, not in suppressed lust, but in agony. Several times I even tossed it off to one side, then started reading again, owing it to myself to wring my full $4.99 out of the book.

Granted, it’s four short stories all crammed into 209 pages. That makes it tough for anyone, even Stephanie Bond to write a good story. And the one, I didn’t mind so much. Cassie, an architect, tries to win back her ex-boyfriend, using Lady Chatterly’s Lover as an example. After that, it goes downhill.

Shy retiring Page seduces her boss, with a dominatrix overtone. Yes, including a black leather bustier. Party girl Wendy seduces her best friend via Fanny Hill and icy Jacqueline goes for The Slave.

Maybe I’m a prude, and that’s why I didn’t like the book, or maybe not. There’s some terrifying writing reminding me of the 70’s romances I used to read (yes, I am that old) but the plots themselves are just truly unbelievable.

Buy it if you’re a fan of any of the above mentioned books, otherwise save your $4.99 for something more exciting like a bag of Hershey chocolates.

carrie

Storm Watch by Jill Shalvis promised to be a good read. Harlequin Blaze, gorgeous guy on the fro9cover, and I’ve always enjoyed her books. But, sorry, I struggled with this one. I know Blaze’s have lots of steamy hot sex, but when they almost crashed their jeep into a tree (hey, lets have sex) and when they were in water up to their waists surrounded by floating debris (hey, lets have sex) By the time they actually got dried out and got to have sex, I was tired of reading all the almost-got-to-have-sex’s!

Lizzy and Jason are great characters, she fills them out nicely, but I struggled and struggled hard with this book. The premise is Lizzy’s little sister is having a baby, and Lizzy just “knows” today is the day and drags Jason (military man who assists with natural disasters) with her. They fight all the way through floods to her sisters apartment, barely managing to restrain themselves from having sex every 10 minutes, and once they get there, her sister is gone. ALL THAT STRUGGLE FOR NOTHING! but at least they get to have sex. whew. got that out of their system.

And truth to tell, the part about little sis – who  is out in the back of some guys Hummer actually having the baby – I enjoyed THAT part of the story so much more. There was humor, one liners, snappy conversation. All while having a baby in a deluge.

So, yes, I’ll still buy Jill Shalvis’ books, but I wasn’t enamored of this one!

carrie