“Two things about me: I dance and I dance.” –Dovey Beckham
The heroine:Dovey Beckham - scholarshipThe player and the dancer
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“Two things about me: I dance and I dance.” –Dovey Beckham
The heroine:Dovey Beckham - scholarship student at the prestigious Briarwood Academy. None of the wealthy students pay any attention to her, but her best friend is a British Bad Boy name Spider that rarely is with the same woman more than once.
“Two things about me: I play football—and girls.” –Cuba Hudson
The Hero(es):Cuba Hudson - he is the most talented football player at BA and on track for a football scholarship. What nobody knows is that his mother is sick and it is his fault, or so he thinks. He likes to forget about home through football, working out and girls, and he is a player in every sense of the word.
The story: Cuba notices Dovey one day while at football practice. She is in the dance studio near the football field and he can’t take his eyes off her, but can’t figure out what it is about her that is holding his interest. Especially after finding out she is a scholarship student and seeing her with Spider. This was a great prequel to the next book in the series, “Very Wicked Things”.
This was a short but very good prequel to Broken Beginnings. It details the first meeting between Lucca and Claire when she is 10 anNice start!
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This was a short but very good prequel to Broken Beginnings. It details the first meeting between Lucca and Claire when she is 10 and he is 18. He is just starting out as a Mafia Enforcer and loves his job a bit too much. However, he is good at it and he is seen at home after buying his first house.
Lucca grew up as a foster kid so never had a place to call home. He meets his neighbor, a little girl who likes to come out to talk to him when her Dad isn’t home. Lucca feels protective of Claire and wants to help her since she seems very lonely. I am starting Broken Beginnings right away. :).
I don’t usually read such short books, but I had an hour before bed and didn’t want to start something I couldnCould have flowed more smoothly!
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I don’t usually read such short books, but I had an hour before bed and didn’t want to start something I couldn’t finish. I didn’t expect much of a story in 47 pages, but what there was of a story was a bit silly for me. I mean the boss, Ben was sitting in a conference room in the middle of a meeting to decide if his company should shut down for the Corona Virus and he was fantasizing about the receptionist during the entire meeting. Not saying that doesn’t happen in real life, but it made him seem a bit flighty.
Ben’s thoughts were far from professional as he blatantly ignore the rest of the board members and drifted into fantasy. It was pretty funny especially when he started to get hard and had to start listening to the conversation so nobody would notice.
The receptionist, Samantha, had a fight that morning with her landlord after just moving in the previous day about her dog which he said she could have but changed his mind when he saw it was a German shepherd. So when Samantha tells Ben she is homeless, he says she can live with him as long as she will do whatever he wants. He sees it as a good way to get some free BDSM play since the clubs are closed due to the virus.
There is insta-love though they had both been attracted to each other for a while when they worked in the same office. So I don’t know if that truthfully can be considered insta-love. Though they did go from just co-workers to in love in less than 24 hours. As with most short-reads that are erotic romances, this was quite steamy!
I read the first book before discovering that this prequel existed so I read them out of order, but I’m stilPerfect introduction to the series!
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I read the first book before discovering that this prequel existed so I read them out of order, but I’m still glad I read this one. It clarified a few misconceptions I had that were sort of glazed over in the other book and it shows how the two main characters got estranged in the first place. The story is about Annie Jamieson who is the daughter to Rock superstar Jax Jamieson.
She was raised by her Aunt and Uncle in a modest house in Philadelphia and she thought they were her parents and called Jax her uncle. When she was ten and her Aunt and Uncle we’re having problems, Annie overheard Jax and her Aunt Grace talking and found out he was her Father. She remained with her Aunt and Uncle while her father was touring and only moved with him full time when he retired a few years ago.
Jax surprises Annie one day when he has her friend Tyler move in with them. Jax runs a music foundation for underprivileged kids and he saw that Tyler has a gift with the guitar and wanted to help him. He also will be paying for Tyler to attend the same private school Annie attends. Annie and Tyler were best friends in Philly but they had lost touch over the past eight months when he had stopped answering her calls and texts. She felt like he had let her down during a time when she had things going on and really needed him.
Annie is not liked by the school’s elite and the Queen Bee at the school, Carly has it out for her. Annie thinks the same will happen to Tyler especially when everyone finds out he is a poor kid from Philadelphia living in their pool house and her Dad is paying his tuition. However, Tyler shows them all that he could care less what they think and they all love him for it.
This is a quick little novella at 100 pages and a great introduction to all the players in this series and it gives all the background as well as some of the struggles they have gone through and are going through. It sets up the next book perfectly and is certainly worth the read!
I liked this short (111 pages) romance about a drunken Vegas wedding. It has all the right elements to make a good book! I reallSexy and Short.
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I liked this short (111 pages) romance about a drunken Vegas wedding. It has all the right elements to make a good book! I really don’t like to read short books under 80 pages. I think anywhere from 80 – 130 pages is a good length for a short read to have enough of a story including world building and character development. Anything shorter is usually missing something and some are just basically a few scenes glued together and are more pieces of porn than actual short stories.
This book was perfect for the type of book it is. Peyton is a Librarian and she is in Las Vegas for the wedding between her best friend Theo and her sister Jillian. She is happy that the two of them have found love together and is the maid of honor in the wedding. Peyton doesn’t let the two of them know, but she has been unhappy for a while with her own life. She wants what they have and she is sick of continually being the bridesmaid in other peoples weddings when all she wants is to be the bride in her own.
Her feelings happen to come out at the worst time and to the wrong person. It happens to be the best man in the wedding, Kingston. Kingston is the guy she has been crushing on since she moved in next door and became friends with his brother Theo. Kingston has always either ignored her or teased her and she hardened herself against him and pretended to hate him like he seems to hate her.
”Kingston has always treated me like crap. I won’t lie, every single time he was mean cut me to the quick. I started pushing back for the sake of self-preservation. If I didn’t like him, then he couldn’t hurt me. After a while, it just became second nature.”
In one drunken night everything changes and Peyton wakes up to discover she is married to Kingston. However, Kingston has hurt her in the past and Peyton doesn’t know if she can trust him with her heart now. Though he says he wants to give the marriage a try. The romance is steamy, I give this a 4 out of five flames for hotness ...more
Short and Steamy! [image] Hailey gets invited to appear as a contestant on a reality show similar to The Bachelor called Cupid’s Arrow. One guy gets to Short and Steamy! [image] Hailey gets invited to appear as a contestant on a reality show similar to The Bachelor called Cupid’s Arrow. One guy gets to choose between ten women and each week he gives one lucky lady an arrow ...more
I should have looked closer at this book when I grabbed it out of my “Short Reads” Folder in my Kindle. I knew it was Book one but a lotArghhh!
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I should have looked closer at this book when I grabbed it out of my “Short Reads” Folder in my Kindle. I knew it was Book one but a lot of times you can still get a decent amount of the story in book one. Not that this wasn’t a good story. The writing was good and the story was also good. My problem with this one was that I wanted to read a short book last night before bed because I had an hour to kill and I didn’t want to start anything big.
However, I knew I would be starting something else today so I didn’t want to get into the entire five boo serial. However this entire book was about this couple, Violet and Gavin, that meet at Violet’s art gallery on the night of her opening show and they are very attracted to each other and decide to have a one night stand.
Though they can’t leave until after the show and after party since the entire night is for Violet and she has to be there. So the whole night is them flirting with each other and getting more and more interested and hot for each other and then the book ends right when they get to Gavin’s place.
This is what I hate about these short serial reads. Plus it takes almost as long to write the review and post it everywhere as it does to read the book. But I am dedicated. I think it is available in a box set, so that would be the best way to read this. Just all at once!
Perfect Sizzling, Steamy, Short Read to pick you up between long and intense books.
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I really enjoyed this book. I have been reading quite a few Perfect Sizzling, Steamy, Short Read to pick you up between long and intense books.
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I really enjoyed this book. I have been reading quite a few longer books recently and this was just what I needed to cleanse my pallet so to speak. It was the perfect balance of story and sexiness to make it very hot but not smutty. It truly felt like a couple falling for each other, though very quickly and intensely. And in today’s world many couples do not wait until the third date or later before doing the deed, so it was very realistic.
The heroine J.J. runs her own editing company and is invited to her ex boyfriend’s ugly sweater Christmas Party. He dumped her six months ago after repeatedly telling her for that he wasn’t ready of marriage or children, and he is now engaged to someone else. She wants to show up and prove to him that she is just fine without him.
J.J. meets wealthy businessman Liam outside the Party and Liam is immediately attracted to her. They go to the party together and end up sharing an intense kiss, afterwards she gets anxious and runs out. Liam tries to find her and can’t. Though eventually he does and they begin a passionate relationship.
Of course their relationship is not without issues but I will not give away any spoilers since it is a short read. But to say that I thought the characters were developed well and I enjoyed the story, especially the passion between the two main characters. It was scorching hot and Liam was awesome. He was romantic, tender and gallant as well as just a bit dominant. The end of the book had a preview for the next book, “Dipped in Gold” about J.J.’s roommate Clara and the guy she met at the dance club. That sounds terrific as well. I can’t wait.
Thanks to S.A. Clayton for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Just when I started thinking it was too crazy, it got really good!
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I was at a place in this book where I thought Jude is just too psycho to be rJust when I started thinking it was too crazy, it got really good!
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I was at a place in this book where I thought Jude is just too psycho to be redeemable. I had no clue how this book could dig itself out of where it was going. Then all of the sudden it started to dig and it got really good. I want to tell you haw that happened and why that makes it so much better, but that would be giving the whole thing away. Suffice it to say this is the best book so far.
Jude starts out showing us his true self a bit more than he has in previous books, he talks about his childhood and his father which helps us understand him more and helps us want to cheer him on a bit. He also begins to get a bit frustrated with Ronnie, because she apparently talks too much when he gets home. Though he locks her up in a room all day by herself while he goes to work then stops on his way home to “play” with Patty. So what does he expect?
Agent Blake is a bigger jerk all the time, so I hope he gets karmic retribution at some point. I certainly feel bad for Agent Chase following him around like a puppy dog. He is the worst. His inner commentary about women uses the most misogynistic and derogatory terms.
Ronnie is a surprise in this book because she wasn’t in the last book all that much and she plays a bigger role in this book. She is so good at being the submissive and doing exactly what Jude tells her, but at one point in the book she really comes out of her shell.
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Of course everything starts to come together towards the end and I was surprised at how much I was truly enjoying the book and how things were working out so far. But of course since there is one more book, it ended on a cliffhanger, like the others and this one was a doozy!
Things are heating up and getting very interesting!
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The story is moving forward and the romance between Jude and Ronnie (a.k.a. Pet) is advancinThings are heating up and getting very interesting!
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The story is moving forward and the romance between Jude and Ronnie (a.k.a. Pet) is advancing. Ronnie believes everything Jude tells her at first and sees him as the Hero that saved her life, which he actually did. However, what she doesn’t realize is that he also kidnapped her and is holding her and wouldn’t let her leave even if she wanted to. So it is probably good that she doesn’t want to.
By the time she realizes who he is, she has fallen for him and he is already her “safe place” so to speak, so even though he tells her he might not be able to stop himself from hurting her, they take their relationship to the next level. The problem is that Jude’s love for her and her feelings for him don’t seem to curb his crazy.
Jude still has pressure behind his eyes and the “red haze” which wants blood and needs him to kill in order for him to get relief. He feels if he doesn’t then his “Pet” will be at risk and he wants to keep her safe from himself.
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The book also continues to follow the FBI case of The CK (Cascades Killer), who they as of yet have no clue is Jude. Agent Donovan Blake is a jerk and describes himself as being very much like the men he hunts aside from the fact he does his hunting behind the safety of the bureau. He is having a torrid affair with his underling agent Emily Chase, whom he treats like crap in front of the other male members of the team and is dominating in the bedroom, which I guess she likes, but it all seems crazy to me, so maybe he is a lot like Jude.
The story also followed this other couple on and off throughout the book which turned out to intersect with some of our main characters toward the end, right before the cliffhanger. So it is on to the next book. The storyline has been so intriguing, and steamy and at this point I just don’t know who or what I am rooting for. Though I do know that I hate the FBI guy Blake, so I hope he doesn’t catch the CK.
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