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I love reading and as of now that is fiction only. Love all genres except horror and for the past few years, been gorging on romance. Thrillers are my first love and add some romance to it then all the more better.
Not a book I connected with much. Heroine was dumb, hero was just okay. They have been hooking up forever, he wants more, she doesn't and on it goes. The suspense plot was stupid.
Ooh, La La!
I generally like reading contemporary romances but truth be told, there aren't many authors that I read obsessively. Robin Wells while not being an auto read has yet to disappoint me and this book is no exception. Was it perfect, no, but it had its good and bad moments. The heroine is a history professor who is competing for tenure while dealing with her about to be teenage daughter who wants to know about her "missing" father and her overprotective mom when she is drafted to be a technical adviser on a movie. The hero Zach is a Hollywood product, former child actor turned director. His last two movies haven't done well and the movie he just pitched is his last chance to make sure his career survives. So, he thinks the heroine will be just a figurehead but she isn't, she tells him his script is factually wrong, locations etc and his blood boils because he is already under a lot of pressure and the heroine comes across as an uptight schoolmarm at first.
Of course the hero decides to change her mind by using the information he discovers from her mom and daughter, that he was her school girl crush but the hero is the one on whom the table turn. He discovers the heroine is damn sexy and they have crazy chemistry. She of course figures him out and freezes him.
The hero is a commitment-phobe having been always set aside by his parents and used all his life while the heroine despite having been burned believes in love. There is a subplot with the heroine's mother and her need to be overprotective and vigilant and the heroine's lies about her daughter's father which I knew would come back to bite her.
Was the book predictable, yes but it was enjoyable as well.
Growing up the heroine didn't have the best life, so she fixated on a guy who she felt had the perfect family and would give her a happy ending, so when she moves back into town and hears that, that guy is finally single, she thinks to herself, this is the perfect chance but there's a problem, she overhears that the guy is sexually adventurous and she is not. So, when the hero turns up at her house in the middle of the night, she kind of blackmails him into sexually tutoring her. Of course things don't go as planned and the hero falls for her hard and so does she but she is terrified since he doesn't fit into her plans. I kind of enjoyed seeing how clueless the heroine could be.
Rating 3.5 starsLess enjoyable than the author's first book. First off it was too unrealistic and second off all the heroine's twin came across as selfish. Plus virgin heroine turns into sex kitten for the hero was weird.
Rating 3.5 starsThe heroine was total self doubting martyr yet the book pulled me in. The heroine has been unloved all her life by her family and just found out that she is adopted so she goes off to find her mother and instead finds the hero. The hero was fabulous and it was so evident that he was falling hard for the heroine but she had plenty of self esteem and trust issues.
Seaspun Magic (Harlequin Superromance No. 168)
Rating 3.25 starsThis book was a tangled mess and so was the heroine who had ESP and whose ability destroyed her marriage, so she ran away and took residence in a small town and gave birth, her ex-husband not being aware of her pregnancy. Her life is quite, her son, her work and her single mom neighbour but all that changes when the hero comes to stay over at her place. The heroine finds herself feeling like a woman again after a long time. Of course things get messy, he leaves promising to come back but she doesn't believe him and casually starts dating a guy who seems fishy from the start to the reader. He keeps asking her about her ESP and passwords and I soon figured out his game and his connection to her friend but the heroine persisted on acting stupid. The book had plenty of potential but it kind of never got there.
Rating 3.25 starsFor me this book lacked depth, the relationship didn't really feel so real since the hero and heroine hardly spent that much time together and I felt the romance was rushed. The book seemed sickly sweet sometimes, the heroine is the recently discovered illegitimate daughter of the President, revelation that came out in the first book of the series, while the hero is a royal. I really wasn't that invested in the romance.
Rating 3.25 starsKind of an okay book, hero convinces the heroine to act fake engaged with him, she agrees. Then they get married for a year as well. The book didn't capture me much.
No Stranger to Scandal (Harlequin Desire Series #2222)
Well, this is one of the better books in the series. The heroine is ten years younger than the hero and the step-daughter of the owner yet she is treated badly at work. The hero is investigating the phone hacking scandal that happened at her media house and thinks her stepfather is guilty. The hero is a widowed single father. He thinks she is protecting her stepfather and both of them start at the opposite sides but attraction has no logic and before long they are involved. The hero of course thinks she is too young and thinks they can't make it long term. Still I enjoyed the book a lot.
Oh Beth!You poor Beth, you made me cry, you made me mad, you made me feel so bad for you. Beth, is a teenager but she isn't a typical teen, she is one with deep issues and problems. Her mom is an addict who has a habit of choosing the wrong men, men that like hitting Beth. So, she hangs out with her friends Noah and ISAIAH, going back only to take care of her mother. No-one really knows how messed up her life really is and even at a young age she is a cynic and hides behind her clothes and make-up.Then, things change, when she takes the fall for her mom, her uncle who she hasn't seen in ages comes back on the scene and he wants Beth to live with him and his new wife. Beth doesn't want to but he threatens the freedom of her mother, so she leaves, all the while planning and scheming, on how to get free and take her mother away.
Ryan to everyone is a typical jock whose parents adore him but that is not the truth. The reality is his parents can barely stand each other and his beloved older brother is estranged because he had the balls to admit that he was gay. That was something his parents couldn't accept so he lost his brother and struggles with his parent's expectations.
Beth doesn't like Ryan, he's too perfect and he too doesn't have a favorable impression of her, but her uncle is his idol, so he tries to suck up.
Now, I have to admit Beth annoyed me, she was just so damaged that she couldn't see a good thing in front of her. She thought she was responsible for everything, when in reality she was a kid, her mother and her mother's issues were not hers and it took her such a long time to come to grips with that fact. The book truly depicted a child's love for their mother, no matter how undeserving that parent is.
I truly hated her mother and how she changed Beth from a cute little girl to one who was so cynical about life and who took the blame for everything. I really liked the complexity of the book and the whole reverse bad girl, good boy thing.
Overall I really liked the book but Noah's and Echo's book still remains a favourite.
ARC provided by the publisher through Netgalley.
Crossing the Line (Pushing the Limits, #1.5)
Such a cute novella about Lila and Lincoln. I really like the way this author writes.
Rating 3.25 starsI really wanted to be WOW'ed by this book but I wasn't. The storyline seemed unbelievable to me, hero/heroine are kidnapped, escape and then run around Mexico trying to rescue a kidnapped girl and bring down a cartel. The heroine was pretty ingenious, her dream of being a cop ended five years ago when she was shot yet she still hangs on, on desk duty letting her life pass by. The heroine on the other hand works with ICE and loves the ladies but that life doesn't seem to be working for him, ever since his best friend got hitched to the heroine's sister he has felt restless and weird. He thinks the heroine is uptight, the heroine thinks the hero is a romeo but both get stuck together. I liked that the hero fell hard for the heroine while she was hell bent on building walls between them since she thought she was just a convenience for him. I felt the book had potential but there was something missing for me.
The heroine is a princess and she has been engaged twice but both the times her relationships never worked out because she never got over her first love, Marcus, the guy she was involved with eight years ago. Marcus broke it off with her, because he was an orphan, a nobody and even though she begged him, he broke her heart and now when is attending her sister's wedding Marcus is there as her bodyguard and she can't stand to be around him and leaves. He of course follows her and they get stranded and sleep together, of course admitting it's a mistake and part ways. The pregnancy changes all of that, the hero wants to get married but the heroine is having none of it, she has the resources and the family to raise her baby on her own and when she wanted a chance the hero broke her heart. The hero wants his baby wants to have a father unlike him, he does have class and esteem issues. I did like the book, the heroine especially, the hero was okay.
Until Fountain Bridge (On Dublin Street, #1.6)
Short novella that offers us a glimpse into Ellie's chase for Adam and what all they went through to get their happy ending.
Well it was, weird reading about a hero who is not such a charmer with the ladies. The hero is a rancher whose life is turned upside down when the heroine a princess comes into town with her entourage that consists of his eighteen year old son, whom he knows nothing about. The heroine's friend spent a drunken night with the hero and never contacted him and now that she's dead its the heroine's responsibility to contact him. The book was decent, the heroine decides to go all in with him and is so deep that she is willing to live with him on the ranch. The hero meanwhile is afraid of not measuring up but eventually decides to follow his heart.