She stole my heat with this one
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I enjoyed the first book. I could totally see the book becoming a television series. It played so well in my head. I was very excited for book 2. Yep season 2 is mapped out. This is totally Dallas meets Kentucky Bourbon money. JR Ward is always so great with words. She paints such beautiful pictures. Living in Louisville helps since it's the model for Charlemonte.
The problems in this book just appear to be growing. It is nice to see Lane and Lizzie weathering this storm so well together. They are puzzle pieces that seem to really fit perfectly. Watching Edward do what he can to protect his siblings and love Sutton the only way he thinks he can. The stories of the life growing up at Easterly pull at your heart strings as you see what Edward has done to pull away knowing how much they counted on him.
I can't wait for book 3. I hope the picture she paints remains as beautiful and we continue to meet many more amazing characters. BTW "The Grain God" has to be one of my favorite characters. He's one of the most down to earth billionaires I've read about. I put money there are more like him in real life.
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She doesn't act the way he wants her to act.  She is also taking him out of his comfort zone.  Enjoy I did.
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The chemistry is off the charts. Nicole and Gabe are combustible when they are near each other. The authors sexy continues to slay. I loved the growth of Gabe. I discovered much about him and he still wows me!

The problem in this composition: Nicole. I did not like her. I did not find a single star to give her. She was the epitome of weak heroine and this is a fail for me in fiction because I favor the strong heroine or at least one who doesnt fall to attention seeking behavior then deflates when the games don't show her favor.

I was so sure this was the last installment, until I came to the end and it became clear another book is on the drawing table. It has to be. The problem with the end for me is that I found myself not rooting for them as a pair. Gabe is Gabe. There is nothing not to like about him. Hes set: the full-Monty.

Nicole is young and with Gabes career and her insecurities made bare, I am not inspired for a HEA for them. I do not see growth for her in dealing with the colossal hell she created, other than a miracle. The elements that dishevel her remain. She must learn how to offset them and in reality nothing but death to all of the women of Gabe's past could realistically calm her thoughts. Her issues are not Gabes they are her own. Shes hopeless until she can find her own footing in the world. The age difference is not the problem. The problem is she does what people expect or want from her and is lost and disheveled when pleasing them doesnt please her in the end.

I'm pretty sure Kaia will land this vessel in the next, but I'm not sure my adoration for Nicole can be fixed. "Closer" did her in for me.
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My friend, Sue, has been recommending Tami Hoag for years and I recently picked up "Night Sins".
Let me say, my environment and that in the novel could hardly be more different.  In Australia, January is mid-summer, and Adelaide has just endured two January heatwaves (the average temperature for January was 101 degrees, up to 112 one day!) and we have just entered our third heatwave of the summer.  And there I was, reading a story set in the Minnesotan winter month of January, with a windchill factor of minus 62 degrees.  I cannot imagine such cold!  We start whining when the thermometer drops to the (plus) 60's!
I found this novel impossible to put down.  I don't know why, because when put under my reviewing microscope, I found plenty of things to criticise.
"Night Sins" is a bodice ripper, disguised as a thriller - the crime is just incidental to the "romance".  Megan's bodice starts heaving and Mitch's pants start getting too tight (well, they would have, had he been wearing some) the moment they lock eyes.  How professional is that?  For someone with all her rules, she got her knickers off pretty quickly, not that she had much of a chance with Mitch's unrelenting persistence.  They spend so much of the novel having little spats and then making up, the other characters are justified in their derision (if not in the way they go about it).  I was not surprised to find Ms Hoag started out as a romance writer.  She hasn't moved on - had Mitch been an 18th century pirate or highwayman and Megan a damsel, the sex would have been the same.  This book almost needs a plain, brown wrapper!  Or Fabio in an unzipped parka on the cover (not the unexplained empty sneaker on the copy I read) - at least that would have issued some sort of warning about the contents.
Okay, being a woman in the male bastion of law enforcement is difficult, frustrating, etc.  After being told that every ten or so pages, I think we get it.
Why do all these lead characters (and that includes the parents) have to be dysfunctional?  Oh, for just one normal, well-adjusted human being with scruples - none here, I'm afraid.  Maybe Natalie, but her part was really small.
For someone who had a migraine, the beginnings of one, or the aftermath of one, during the entire story, Megan and her medicine cabinet purse managed to rise through the ranks of the BCA pretty sensationally.  The last thing I'd expect anyone to want during a migraine is sex, even with a Harrison Ford look-alike (right down to the scar on the chin - puh-leese).  After all Ms Hoag's casting advice, I'm wondering who they got to play the role in the mini-series - not Ford, I'm guessing.
Metaphors are useful literary devices.  That does not mean every sentence needs one.  Many of them were quite clever, but the sheer number of them had me groaning.
How long would a TV reporter like Paige Price, or a Sheriff like Steiger, last in the real world?  Don't both professions have codes of conduct, and people they report to?  They were SO ridiculously, laughably bad.
Somehow, it was practically impossible to have any sympathy for the parents of the abducted boy.  The father was such a rat, and the mother such a saint, I just wanted to bang their heads together.  And when the mother's bodice started heaving for the priest, and his trousers started swelling, well ... you know where this is going.
The best (and worst) part of this book is the weather - best because it's well written and so extreme (to me, anyway) as to be interesting, and worst, because without it, the novel would mercifully have been at least 200 pages shorter.
After 540 pages, you still have no idea of why the baddie did it, who he's in league with, where the kid was, what happened to him, or anything.  Oh yeah, you find out at the "end" that this is a two-parter and you're expected to wade through another 500 pages or so of clich&eacute;s, metaphors, stereotyped characters and steamy sex to find out.  And all the copies of "Guilty as Sin" at my libraries (I'm not buying this rubbish!) are out on loan - dammit!
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Alright, I have met Megan Erickson in person several times, and she is a sweet heart, and I absolutely adore her. That being said, I had a love-hate relationship with this book. This is the tale of second chances. Cal and Jenna were together and in-love when they were 18 and then life got in the way, 10 years late, Jenna is back and it looks like things are still hot and heavy between them. I loved the contrast between Cal and Jenna. Cal is all grungy, sexy, dirty mechanic while Jenna is all sweet, heels, and publicity director. I also really enjoyed the curve balls that came with this book and the car knowledge, both were and unexpected and pleasant surprise.

My biggest pet-peeve with this book was the back and forth. Cal and Jenna went back and forth just one too many times. Should we be together, should we stay away from each other. I wanted to reach into the book and slap Cal upside his thick skull in the hopes of knocking some sense into him *sighmen*. Otherwise, this book is hot, steamy, and really sexy.
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Wow!  Tawna spiced it up a good deal in this one.  I would say this book, (I've read them all), is the hottest one Tawna has written, to date.  The thing I enjoy as well, continues to be how she can take all sorts of situations, themes, ETC.,  with her wonderful humor added in.  Perhaps one of the things about Tawna's books is the fact that she comes up with such interesting characters, different than you might actually know, and makes them so likeable.  While this one might have made me blush, this is an author I will always follow.  She is my all time favorite.
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Although my green cheek is scared to death of this heated perch I does stay very warm if I was a bird I'd want one. It almost seemed like she got caught in the wire protector around the power cord.  I have to figure out how to return it :(
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It was awesome for the first two months of use. Then, it suddenly stopped getting hot. I went back to my beat up old champ, the FHI  Heat Nano Salon Pro 2000, and will be purchasing another soon, just because I don't want to risk this old one finally giving out on me during a client visit. I love you FHI, but this tool was a swing and a miss.
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Omg, She did it again bad boy with a big heart and deep secrets. Elec is hot and mysterious, makes me tingly all over, the best foreplay ever in this book.
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This one is HOT. The heat between Lucius and Gwenn just makes an oven out of my kindle. Porcia is still here and still crazy, but she has a nasty surprise in wait for her...you'll have to read to find out.
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This story is too hott to handle! I have NEVER read an urban book like this ish right here!  Ms. Bricilla Webb has mad style and is quick with her come backs. I'm going to have to steal a few of her lines. She had me cracking up! OMG, there has to be a part 2 please! Wax and his mother Vickie were off the chain. I'm sad that Briclla lost her baby and that things didn't work out with Wax. I got the feeling that he really loved her and wished things could have turned out differently. Ms. Diamond thief Vickie is what you call SHADY BOOTS! And the sex scenes were relavent to the book which is rare. Some books just write boring sex scenes when they are not necessary but not this book. I can't say enough good stuff about this book. This is the hottest book I have read since Noire's, Natural Born Liar and LaTonya West's Side Chic 4. This ish right here is FIYA!
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This was different from all the other books I've read from Kylie.  She really brought the heat with this one.  It's still filled with the humor I have come to expect and love in her books but she really did turn the heat up super high with this one.  The chemistry between Carrie and Zach was off the charts.

Carrie was known as the "Good" girl. The Pediatric nurse who just came out of a long-term relationship that left her feeling repressed and rebellious.  She wants to make up for six years of sexual repression by making a "wish" list...well let's be honest a sexual wish list. And now she just has to find a bad boy to help her perform each task on this list.  One night after her Happy Ending book club meeting she meets Zach. He's tall, dark, handsome, bearded, with broad shoulders in other words, the bad boy she's been looking for.  All it took was some liquid courage, a willing Zach  and BOOM she had her bad boy. Or did she?  Do bad boys cook breakfast for their one night stands the morning after and does he offer to help you carry out all the things on your "wish" list in the next two weeks?  Zach is a well respected Professor of Anthropology who is back from living in remote locations in Indonesia.  Little did he know that his grown out hair and beard would lead him to be with a beautiful quirky woman.  He is more than willing to play the bad boy to help her safely check off each item on her wish list. The last thing he wants is for her to go up to random guys to help her with this list. But at the end of their two week arrangement when feelings get involved who will be hurt the good girl or the bad boy?

Although I loved the heat and the quirky situations these characters found themselves in, I really enjoyed seeing how they found themselves and who they truly were. In turn discovering their true feelings for one another.  I loved how their story unfolded and they found their HEA.

This book will have you laughing out loud one minute and reaching for a cold glass of water the next.  I'd read Carrie and Zach's story again and again.
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I was chilling with my girl riding around Chicago in my jeep (you know, regular boss s***) and My girl put in this CD.... FIrst of all its 2014 and she put in a CD.... Thats grounds for the back hand but I let it slide.... THen I hear these drums and some African sounds and thats when I almost went off on her completely.... See A man like me use to CHeef Keef and Rick Ross on the regular so I was offended when SHe put this In... But as the music progressed something happened to me... Its almost as if a certain part of myself that Is African that has been hidden for all my life came to the surface... I couldn't believe the way I felt. Its dam near antarctica in Chicago right now and these sounds had me felling like i was somewhere humid and tropical. if I could cry I would have.... But I cant because Its a cold world and crying don't get you know where... All in all if you like great music and enjoy happy sounds get this Music... Olatunji For life @elessicempire
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Alysha was in a loveless relationship. Her boyfriend was so unworthy of this sweet, beautiful, curvy woman. She did not deserved to be cheated on. How could he do that to her. But sometimes the universe works in our favor and fate steps in.

Arthur and his identical twin brother Esben were close when they were younger but now that women and their raging hormones were in the picture they were at war. Esben always wanted what Arthur had. My heart truly broke for Arthur. The pain and longing he felt and not just long for someone to love but what use to be.

After a night of hot steamy sex between Arthur and Alysha, Esben had become envious. This was the last straw. It is time so show who is the better bear. Will Alysha have to chose between the two? Will one of the twins end up killing the other? Will Alysha just walk away?

If you love bear shifter books you will love this one. I actually listen to the audio of this book. I think R.P James did an amazing job writing the book and D Rampling did an amazing job narrating the book. I have to say listening to the book during the steamy parts I thought I was going to have to go take a cold shower.
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It's a great story, but if you do not like hot,steamy sex, don't read it.  I want one like she got.  Better have the fan on you or you will melt.  Don't know where she got her imagination from, but I want to live in her head.  Lol
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I love the way she talks to you. Not like my wife. Lol.
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I was ring announcing in a parking lot in Newark NJ for three hours where the surface temperature was 109, and the heat index was 126 (not a typo).  By the end of the third match, I had completely sweat through my suit jacket, it was dripping off of me from every pore and yet somehow I still didn't get the "swamp @$$" that I expected.  This event was the exact reason I decided to pony up for the ExOfficio, and I was simply amazed.