contemporary

Ravenous by Eden Summers

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Ravenous

Grade-C
Hotness Level-Inferno
Kink Level-No Kink
Genre-Contemporary
Reviewed by Kay
56 pages

Back in high school, Jesse and Erin were a couple. They were in love as only teenagers can be. After school, Jesse left their hometown and Erin for the big city and bright lights of Sydney. He became a chef and a success. Erin became a caterer and nursed a broken heart. She gets a visit from Jesse, who is home for a visit with his folks. He asks her to cater his mother’s birthday party. Erin is shocked to see him and discovers she’s still in love with him. Jesse has never forgotten Erin either.

This is a cute, short read about the power of a love that never dies, even after years of separation. The premise is one of my personal favorites but the story never fully hooked me. It wasn’t bad but it left me wanting more.

Own the Wind by Kristen Ashley

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Own the Wind (Chaos, #1)
Grade-B
Hotness Level-Inferno
Kink Level-None
Series-Chaos#1
Reviewed by Kay

Tabitha Allen is a biker club princess and when she was younger, a train wreck. She made unwise choices and she and the people she loved paid the price. As an adult, she tried to live what she thought was the dream only to have her world implode. She has always had a crush on Parker “Shy” Cage who is a member of the MC(motorcycle club) her dad is the president of.

Shy Cage has always noticed Tabby but never acted on it because of her age and the MC. He’s quite the ladies man and is very outspoken with his opinions. He makes a judgement call with Tabby when she’s younger and for a long time it defines their relationship.

I’m a big fan of Kristen Ashley. I have to say Knight is still my favorite but I really liked this book and Motorcycle Man. It would help if you have read Motorcycle Man first but you don’t have to. If you have, you’ll see that Tabby fell for a guy a lot like her dad, Tack. This story was very emotional and hard to read at times because of the pain these characters were in. The losses they had were staggering and changed who they were as people at a young age. I highly recommend this book for readers of Kristen Ashley’s books or anyone who wants a great story by a great author.

ETA: It turns out this book is on sale for 99c today (8/4/13)
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Unscripted by Jayne Denker

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Grade: C
Hotness Level: Blaze
Kink Level: No Kink
Genre: Contemporary

Reviewed by Anne
219 pages
 
Faith is “Faith Freakin’ Sinclair.”  She’s creator/producer/writer of an incredibly popular show in Hollywood.  Well, she was up until that point where she grabbed her boss by the balls, literally, and got herself fired.  She’s waiting for it to blow over, but it’s dragging on a lot longer than she thinks.  The only way she can see herself getting back in with the network is to bring back the star she fired months ago.  Now he’s at a small community college taking acting classes and she’s at the mercy of  Mason, aka Professor Mitchell, aka head of the theater department.  
 
Sometimes expectations really color your view of a book. I went into this one expecting romance to be the focus of the book. There definitely was romance, but I think the focus of the book was Faith’s personal growth. When you add in the first person POV, the pretty much perfect guy paired with the heroine full of flaws, and don’t forget the moments of humiliation… that reads more like Chick Lit to me, and Chick Lit is not my favorite genre.

I felt like there was a lot of time and detail spent on the set up of the story, and it dragged. I could have done without the flashbacks, or at least without most of them – the ones that detailed Faith’s crush on her young star and the embarrassing thing that happened between them.  I’m just not big on wallowing in someone’s humiliation.  And the humiliation wasn’t reserved for the flashbacks.  It was an ongoing thing.

On the plus side, the writing WAS funny. It actually made me smile at times. This would probably work really well for someone who liked chick lit or is a huge Kristan Higgins fan, but it was just ok for me.

One final comment – I really like this cover.  However, both the models on it are much younger than I pictured Faith and Mason.

So, where do you fall on the chick lit scale?  Do you like it or not?