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Blurb: Stephenie Meyer - Midnight Sun (draft 4)

 

Twilight told out of the point of view of Edward Cullen.

My Opinion:

After having read the complete twilight series, and previously the first chapter of this book, I decided I might take up the whole draft that you can find on the Stephenie Meyer website.

I was surprised at how good my memory was of the first Twilight book to put it all together with this one. But more I finally got Edward’s motives behind everything he does. (And get the film much better now as well since Rob Pattinson was given the draft to prepare for his robe as Edward). I truly hope that Stephenie Meyer finishes the book and that it gets released properly. The book and the fans deserve it.

 

Grade: 8/10

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Blurb: Gwyn Cready - Seducing Mr Darcy

Mr. Darcy just isn't Flip Allison's style. She prefers novels with hot sex on the bathroom sink to the mannerly, high-tension longing of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. That is, until she pays a visit to Madame K, who promises a therapeutic massage with an opportunity to "Imagine Yourself in Your Favorite Book." Somehow, on the way to a sizzling sink-top session with a Venetian Adonis, Flip lands right in the middle of Regency England -- and dangerously close to handsome Mr. Darcy. So close, in fact, that she discovers a side of him even Jane Austen couldn't have imagined.

 

Waking from her massage, Flip is on top of the world and ready for her upcoming book club -- that is, until she notices a new scene in which Darcy and spunky heroine Lizzy Bennet are arguing over...Flip Allison? Her rapturous liaison with Darcy has had disastrous consequences for Austen's characters -- not to mention millions of Pride and Prejudice fans! Flip has twenty-four hours to put the story back on course, and Magnus Knightley, a sexy but imperious scholar whose brooding good looks and infuriating arrogance are decidedly Darcy-like, is the only one who can help. The only problem is, Flip can't keep her hands off him, either....

My Opinion

How much can you do wrong if you end up in your favourite book. This is what this book is about. Well that and a romance. As the classic Pride and Prejudice gets changed by the protagonist in the book, we have 24 hours to change it back to it original form. But I fell in love with Magnus Knightley not the elusive Darcy (although he was my beau in the original Pride & Prejudice).

 

Grade: 7.5/10

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Blurb: Diane Castell, Karen Kelley, Rosemary Laurey - Texas Bad Boys

"In Bed with Someone" by Rosemary Laurey - Rod Carter was supposed to end up running the Ragged Rooster. Instead, Old Man Maddox gave the bar to his granddaughter, some prissy Brit art gallery owner right off the boat from London. Miss Juliet Ffrench - yeah, two "f's" - knows jack-all about beer, winning friends, and running tabs, but she's got a killer smile. All the lady needs is someone to give her an education in Texas hospitality, up close and personal...

"Run of Bad Luck" by Karen Kelley - Nina Harris loves photographing naked, sexy men. But, when she inherits her grandfather's ranch in Texas, and meets foreman Lance Colby, she thinks she may have met her match. Lance is pretty sure real cowboys don't drop trou for national magazines. Still, as a Texas gentleman, he'd be more than happy to give Nina a private showing...

"Come to a Bad End" by Dianne Castell - Silver Gulch Sheriff John Snow thinks women have their place - in his kitchen or his bed. He would certainly never go for some women's libber businesswoman like Lillie June. The men in town want him to close down her fancy new spa, and he's happy to oblige. But once he meets Lillie, soothing massages, personal pampering, and one-on-one body wraps don't seem like such a bad thing at all...

My Opinion

Yes, a book about bad boys, and Texas ones while we’re at it. This is not the first book I read about bad boys. There is a whole series of them, I’m working my way through very very slowly. But this one with the cowboy behaviours and the women not letting the men rule from the minute they meet, not bad at all. Good for a between books read, I love the fact that it’s only short stories that have to be read, so it’s easy to divide time to read them all.

Grade: 6.5/10

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Blurb: Kristin Harmell - Italian for beginners

Thirty-four-year-old Manhattan accountant Cat Connelly has always lived life on the safe side. But after her little sister gets married, Cat wonders if she has condemned herself to a life of boredom by playing by the rules. She decides to take a chance for once, accepting an invitation to spend a month with an old flame in Italy. But her reunion with the slick and gorgeous Francesco is short-lived, and she finds herself suddenly alone in Rome. Now, she must see if she has the courage to live outside the lines for the first time - and to face a past she never understood. It will take an unexpected friendship with a fiery Italian waitress, a whirlwind Vespa tour of the Eternal City with a handsome stranger, and a surprise encounter with an old acquaintance to show Cat that life doesn't always work out the way you expect, but sometimes you have to have fall in order to fly.

My Opinion:

What happens when your grandma embarrasses you in front of the whole congregation when your little sister is getting married and you’re still single. Well that’s what happens to the leading lady in this book. As we discover her journey to Rome (I love that city myself) we get swept away by the romances, the self discovery and well any one who knows Rome memories of the eternal city. I love my memories of the eternal city.

Grade: 7.5/10

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Blurb: Meg Cabot - Nicola and the Viscount

In Regency London, every girl wants to make a good match. Nicola thinks she's done it with the fabulously handsome (if conversationally challenged) Viscount Sebastian Bartholomew. Turns out she's wrong -- but it may be too late!

My Opinion:

As in my opinion of the other historical by Meg Cabot “Victoria and the Rogue”, I found this one a weird read to be a book by Meg Cabot. It was fluent enough and I didn’t mind reading it but since this is one of the earlier book (before the bunch I’ve read Queen of Babble, Heather Wells Mysteries) I could not say it was a page turner for me. Since it was only a short one I only spend 2 days on reading it.

Grade: 6.5/10

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Blurb: Melissa Marr - Wicked Lovely

The clash of ancient rules and modern expectations swirl together in this cool, urban 21st century faery tale. Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries. Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in the mortal world, and would blind her if they knew of her Sight. Rule #2: Don't speak to invisible faeries. Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring, is trying to talk to her, asking questions Aislinn is afraid to answer. Rule #1: Don't ever attract their attention. But it's too late. Keenan is the Summer King and has sought his queen for nine centuries. Without her, summer itself will perish. He is determined that Aislinn will become the Summer Queen at any cost! Suddenly none of the rules that have kept Aislinn safe are working any more, and everything is on the line: her freedom; her best friend, Seth; her life; everything.

My Opinion

 

This book was my reintroduction to the world of fairies. Last time I read something with fairies I was a child and it might have been something like a Disney version of Peter Pan. To be honest in comparison to the child-like fairy tales this comes as a little shock. I liked this new view on the world of those fairies. I want to read more from this series. (I’ve read the first in the manga series Desert Tales that follows this story since I read the book and now)

Grade: 7/10

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Blurb: Lynsay Sands – The Deed

Inheriting a fortune when her chaste husband dies, virgin widow Emmaline Eberhart is promised as part of a political agreement to knight Amaury de Aneford, who is surprisingly challenged by his innocent new wife.

My Opinion:

After reading 11 of Lynsay Sands’s book in the Argeneau/Rogue series, I wanted to check out her previous work in historical romances. This being the fist one on the list and the first one I read. Well I love to say that she is one heck of a writer cause this being different from the normal vampire romance that I’ve read I loved the story.

Grade:7.5/10

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Blurb: Deirdre Martin, Gery Buckley, Annette Blair, Julia London – Hot Ticket

Deirdre Martin's Same Rink, Next Year has a sexy concierge hooking up with the same gorgeous hockey player every year. Uncomplicated? Not when love enters the picture.

 

Julia London's Lucky Charm listens in on an uninhibited radio host who goes head-to-head with a hot-shot shortstop-on-the-air and off.

 

Annette Blair's You Can't Steal First follows a Red Sox star player who's interested in a sexy sporting-goods magnate. But first he has to prove he's not just playing the field.

 

Geri Buckley's Can't Catch This spies on an adventurous female football fan who discovers that the hottest action is in the stands.

My Opinion

What to say about this book. Honestly I read it because there was a story in by Deirdre Martin that fitted in to the Blades series, which I’m reading. But all the other jocks in the other stories were charming as well. Since I started reading the Blades series I discovered the world of the male athletes in writing and honest to God I love ‘em. So about this book again then, well I loved the fact that I had one story to read per day, not going overly fast since I read mostly on the train and if the stories are short enough I can finish a story per day. And then the other reason for liking this book is the oh so hot and scrumptious men.

Grade:7/10

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Blurb: Donna Kauffman – Bad boys in Kilts

You know those Scottish bad boys - they don‘t wear anything under their kilts, and who would want them to? Now, USA Today bestselling author Donna Kauffman introduces the Chisholm brothers, three of the sexiest lads ever to leave a woman hungry for moor

My Opinion

I’ve already stated that I love those Scottish men somewhere in some other review of a book with some highlander in it. Well this time they are rugged, and of this time and age. I recommend this book to all the women who want to swoon for a Scottish burr.

Grade:6.5/10

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Blurb:Kerrelyn Sparks – Sugarplums and Scandal

And just in time comes this grand gift of seasonal mystery and romance from six of popular fiction's most supremely talented "Santas"-;for 'tis the season for scandals, suspense, and all sorts of unexpected surprises! Enjoy Lori Avocato's tale of the sexy fraud investigator and the delinquent dentist, and Dana Cameron's suspenseful story of a not-so-merry Christmas Eve at an English manor house. Savor Mary Daheim's scrumptious gathering of lively loved ones and one ghostly guest, and Cait London's blood-chilling tale of a menaced Christmas do-gooder. Suzanne Macpherson delights with a Yuletide fable about a perky, persistent spirit and her haunted ex-fianc

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Blurb: Dawn Atkins – Her sexiest surprise

All Chloe Baxter wants for her birthday is one kiss from hottie Riley Connelly. She gets that and more. That one kiss leads to the most amazing one-night stand of her life. Sex with Riley is beyond spectacular. But when morning comes, she's resigned to returning to real life.

 

Except that for Chloe, real life has gotten complicated.

 

Her big job promotion has landed her in the middle of Riley's undercover investigation. Worse, he wants her to spy on her employers. Can she betray the people she cares about for a man she can't keep her hands off? And if survival means choosing between her head and her heart, Chloe's not sure which one will hurt worse if she loses it..

My Opinion

My last indulgence before I left on holiday. I hadn’t finished so I took it with me on the plane, by the time the plane touched down (only a 2 hour flight) I finished reading it. Even though this is a harlequin story, I sometimes thought if it was a little longer it just could have been a regular romance book(with a little detective work in there).

Grade:6.5/10

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Blurb: Deirdre Martin – Chasing Stanley

Professional hockey player Jason Mitchell is thrilled when he's traded to the New York Blades-the team of his dreams. There's just one problem: his pooch isn't adjusting to city life too well. Good thing he crosses paths with dog trainer Delilah Gould. And then he begins to fall for her...

 

Now, with the season heating up, Jason realizes he'll have to score big to win the Stanley Cup-and the woman who has tamed his dog and unleashed his heart.

My Opinion

My first official read of my holidays. And there were a few that I dragged along just to have enough to read. I love these books, one hot man and a humongous dog equals a story you should read. Although earlier on about a previous story in the Blades series I said I had a d

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Blurb: Kerrelyn Sparks – The undead next door

Three signs that something is very different with your new man:

1. He sleeps all day . . . which would be annoying except he's so attentive at night.

2. He's attacked by sword-wielding assailants, yet insists he can handle it on his own.

3. He never seems to age.

 

Heather Westfield has always lived a quiet life, but that all changes when she helps a very handsome, very mysterious stranger. There's something not quite right about Jean-Luc, but still, she's never been with a man so charming, so attractive . . . so wonderful. Now if only a murderous villain wasn't after them, they might get their happily-ever-after.

My Opinion

A French vampire, with all the misunderstandings in it. Since I’m working my way through a few book series and this is one of them, I just dumped it in my suitcase and dragged it along. This might seem like I didn’t like it, but I did. When selecting my books to go on holiday I was very careful not to get books about the same topic. This was my vampire book. And since most of these books( the Love at Stake books) have a little bit of action in them, it is really nice to read when you can finish them in one go. Yes I did finish it in one go, started just around noon and finished at night.

Grade:7.5/10

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Blurb:Judi McCoy – Almost a Goddess

21st-Century

Performance appraisal

Kyra

Position Title -- Muse of Good Fortune

Evaluated by --

Mighty Zeus, President, CEO, Top God

 

Performance Assessment

Kyra's performance has, quite frankly, been a disappointment over these past one hundred years. Our Muse of Good Fortune, despite her exceptional charm and unearthly beauty, has been slacking off, getting by on her looks, wiles, and considerable sex appeal -- not to mention her privileged position as the daughter of Mighty Zeus Himself!

Performance Objectives

The best place on Earth for the Muse of Good Fortune to make a difference is . . . Las Vegas. Therefore Kyra is to spend one year at the famous Acropolis Casino, where she will inspire good fortune. During her sentence, she is forbidden from getting romantically involved with a mortal, and most especially not with Jake Lennox. This professional gambler-turned-investigator is too seductive and attractive for his own good. Besides, Jake has an agenda that may prove too dangerous for Kyra's soft heart. So, if she falls in love, all bets are off.

My Opinion

I bought this book to have an other type of romance on my shelves. It appealed to me since this was about gods and muses. I really liked his book , but as you can expect when you read a blurb like this, love is going to happen, if the main character wants it or not. I can’t wait until I can buy the other 2 books in the series once I finished my enormous TBR list.

Grade:7.5/10

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Blurb: Richelle Mead – Succubus Blues

Succubus (n.) An alluring, shape-shifting demon who seduces and pleasures mortal men. Pathetic (adj.) A succubus with great shoes and no social life. See: Georgina Kincaid.

 

When it comes to jobs in hell, being a succubus seems pretty glamorous. A girl can be anything she wants, the wardrobe is killer, and mortal men will do anything just for a touch. Granted, they often pay with their souls, but why get technical?

 

But Seattle succubus Georgina Kincaid's life is far less exotic. Her boss is a middle-management demon with a thing for John Cusack movies. Her immortal best friends haven't stopped teasing her about the time she shape-shifted into the Demon Goddess getup complete with whip and wings. And she can't have a decent date without sucking away part of the guy's life. At least there's her day job at a local bookstore--free books; all the white chocolate mochas she can drink; and easy access to bestselling, sexy writer, Seth Mortensen, aka He Whom She Would Give Anything to Touch but Can't.

 

But dreaming about Seth will have to wait. Something wicked is at work in Seattle's demon underground. And for once, all of her hot charms and drop-dead one-liners won't help because Georgina's about to discover there are some creatures out there that both heaven and hell want to deny...

My Opinion

Last year on a book shopping trip I bought the 3rd book in this series. Since I check all the books I buy if they belong to a series, I noticed that I had to get the first two books to read before I could read the 3rd book. So I bough book 1 and 2 in august to start at the beginning. It took me about 20 pages to really get into the book, but that’s not bad it means I wasn’t into the world of Succubae at the moment I started reading. Once the book picked up and I got further and further in the book I really started to like the book. I’ll soon read the 2nd book in the series.

Grade:7/10

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Blurb: Lynsay Sands – Devil of the Highlands

They call him the Devil, the most notorious laird in all of Scotland. But Cullen, the new Larid of Donnachaidh, pays them no heed. He cares only about the survival of his clan, and for that, he needs a wife. He wants someone stout to bear him sons. He wants a pliable woman who wouldn't question his dictates. He wants a passionate woman to warm his bed...one out of three isn't bad. Evelinde has lived under the cruel thumb of her stepmother for too long. That is the only explanation for her eagerness to wed the "Devil of the Highlands". She's determined to be a good wife, but this Devil needs to learn that there is more to a marriage than what goes on in the bedchamber...

My Opinion

Yet an other book about a highlander, but this time by one of my favourite authors. What to say about it, all I can say is I loved it. Since I haven’t read a bad thing by Miss Sands since I started reading her books, I knew this book wouldn’t disappoint me. This being the first of 3 books I’m looking forward to the next ones, since they still need to be released I have a little while to wait.

Grade:8/10

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Blurb: Carly Phillips – Lucky Streak

Long ago, a witch proclaimed an eternal curse that every Corwin male who married for love would be destined to lose his woman and his fortune.

 

The good news is that Mike, a police officer, awakens after some hard partying in Vegas $100,000 richer and married to Amber, the gorgeous woman he met the night before. The bad news: His last name is Corwin. The really bad news is that Amber's a consummate con who took his money and ran. Seems the family curse has finally hit him. (Hard).

 

But to Amber, Mike isn't business as usual. Something about her new husband softens her steely heart, even as she betrays him. If only she didn't need the money to ensure her father's safety, she might have actually fallen for the intense lawman. Instead, she's on the run. From the bad guys. From her former con partner. And from the man she might have loved.

 

Now Mike, first hell-bent on revenge (divorce), welcomes a second chance to defy the curse. and turn his run of bad fortune into a lucky streak!

My Opinion

I started reading this book while I was still abroad, and read further on the plane home and even more once I got home. I read the first book in the Corwin Cursed series I think at the beginning of the year, I ordered this one from the moment that I saw a pre-order version online. And I’m looking forward (and I pre-ordered) the 3rd book in the series already. With saying all this I just want to say I like the series. This is the book I took with me to have a change in paranormal urban romances (not counting the hockey book which I always call the hockey series), and a big change it was and I think it was my best choice in “not-to-heavy” drag along books I could have made.

Grade:7/10

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Blurb: Kelley Armstrong - Bitten

Elena Michaels is a self-described "mutt," a werewolf who left her secretive pack in upstate New York for a life among humans. In the year since she relocated to Toronto, she's embarked on a career as a journalist and begun a pleasingly mundane relationship with a decent man. All this is jeopardized when she agrees to help her old packmates hunt some troublesome mutts who are converting common criminals to werewolves and leaving a trail of conspicuous carnage. Reunited with her former lycanthrope lover and forced into brutally predatory confrontations, Elena finds the call of the wild subtly reasserting itself. Armstrong prepares readers for her tale's twists with several key revisions of werewolf lore the werewolf taint is mostly hereditary, and werewolves can be killed as easily as any human or wolf. Her true achievement, though, is her depiction of werewolf nature in believably human context. Elena's feral sensibility, like her psychological vulnerabilities, seems a natural outgrowth of her abusive childhood, and her relationship with the pack is that of any prodigal child to a close-knit family. The sensuality of Elena's transformations and the viciousness of her kills mesh perfectly with her tough personality.

My Opinion

This was my back-up book on holiday, but since I didn’t get to read it while on holiday I just read it the moment I got home. What can I say, werewolves are as paranormal as it gets and this is the first real werewolf story I’ve read since actually finishing Breaking Dawn. Only to note that this is much more mature and that after hearing so much good about this book series I have to agree with the good reviews it truly is a great book for one of those quiet days in house.

Grade:7.5/10

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Blurb: Erin McCarthy – Flat out sexy

Independent single mother Tamara Briggs wanted to find a new, sexy, no-strings-attached man - just not one as young as NASCAR driver Elec Monroe. But he sure does get her heart racing. And after she's tricked into a blind date with him, Tamara gives in to her passion. Things screech to a halt, though, when he asks to meet her children. Whatever happened to wham-bam-thank-youma'am? Suddenly Tamara has to decide how much risk she's willing to take to experience the power of true love.

My Opinion

After all the books about Scottish highlanders, hockey players, vampires, werewolves,… I decided I needed something else, maybe get into an other sport and then I saw the Erin McCarthy book online and immediately ordered it. Since reading other work by her I knew I would be in for a treat. This is the first time I really read a book about a car sport, or a driver. Not bad, not bad at all, is all I have to say about it and the second in the series is on my buy list.

Grade:7/10

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Blurb:Simon Says - Lori Foster

 

Sexy ex-fighter Simon Evans has the perfect life - until he catches his girlfriend cheating. To Work off his rage, he goes back into the ring full-force. But a gutsy and gorgeous P.I. is about to send him reeling with a secret about his family - and one about her heart.

 

My Opinion

Something different again, but still hot athleted. This time fighters and regimes they need to follow. Well we all know what happens when a man gets tempted with the woman who might be the one, they will do anything to get them were they want them (mostly meaning in their bed). So that is wat happens here as well, eventually. And the whole way up to the happy ending, which I at one moment thought might not happen, we are falling in love along with the main characters.

 

Grade:7/10

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Blurb: Robyn Sisman – Weekend in Paris

One Friday afternoon, unappreciated by her boss, Molly walks out of her job. Boarding a Eurostar to Paris she begins to live life to the full in a world of leafy boulevards, luscious foods and smouldering Frenchmen. By Sunday night, she is a new person.

My Opinion

I bought this book just when I finished reading a more recent book by this author. I thought that book was really good. So I decided to get an older book by the same writer. I took my time reading the book (In my case taking my time mostly means reading over night and during the weekend a book I started during the week), and I think it’s not a bad book. Set in Paris and some French free love, who can resist wanting to go and spend a weekend like that in the capital of France??? After finishing the book I was thinking maybe I should go back to Paris myself and see what’s on offer for a single girl like me :lol:

Grade:7.5/10

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Blurb: Erin McCarthy – My Immortal

In the late eighteenth century, plantation owner Damien du Bourg struck an unholy bargain with a fallen angel: an eternity of inspiring lust in others for the gift of immortality. But when Marley Turner stumbles upon Damien's plantation searching for her missing sister, for the first time in two hundred years it's Damien who can't resist the lure of a woman. But his past sins aren't so easily forgotten-or forgiven.

My Opinion

Since only recently reading a Erin McCarthy book, I thought I knew what I was up against when starting this book. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Since I already read a few books from this author I knew there would be some hot passion in there, but this one was a little bit different from all the other books, and I loved it. This is the first book in the SEVEN DEADLY SINS series, the sin LUST is the one portrait in this book, and what better city than New Orleans to be the stage of this story. I recommend it to all chick-lit readers who like some hot scenes in their books

Grade:8/10

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Blurb: Lora Leigh – Only Pleasure

Since Chase Falladay came to her rescue two years ago, Kia Stanton has never been able to forget the powerful man or the kind of life he leads. So two years later when she runs into Chase and his friend, Khalid, and leaves with them that night, she knows exactly where it is all heading. However, little prepares her for what it is like to be in Chase's arms, and in his bed. After years of holding back, Kia is finally able to be the woman she's always dreamed of being in his arms.

 

Kia is a dream Chase has not allowed himself to entertain. Now that he has her, it's her heart he's after and he's determined to win it, no matter the cost. And even though they both agreed that it would only be for pleasure, somewhere along the way it becomes and all-consuming love.

My Opinion

I’ve read, up to now, all the books in the bound hearts series. And even though they are very hot from time to time, I did feel a progression over the many books. The books are no longer pure sex but also some detective work in it. I so feel that it’s good to have read all the books since otherwise I might be shocked a little at some scenes (like I was with the first book). This one is recommended in the series, maybe even as a stand alone but since we are meeting a lot of people of previous books it’s best to start at the beginning *grin*

Grade:7/10

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