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Waking Up Pregnant by Mira Lyn Kelly

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Waking Up Pregnant
Grade-B+
Hotness Level-Blaze
Kink Level-No Kink
Genre-Contemporary
Reviewed by Kate
224 pages
 
Jeff and Darcy had one night of bliss in Las Vegas before Darcy snuck out. But what happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay there. Darcy ends up pregnant and heads to Jeff’s office to find out what they’re going to do now.
 
I was looking for a romance that was sweet and tender and yet spicy and this one fit the bill perfectly. Jeff and Darcy are open and honest with each other. There’s no secrets being kept between the pair of them. What a refreshing change from the typical everybody’s-got-a-secret storylines I’ve come across lately. And not only are they open and honest, but they talk to and actually listen to each other.
 
This one is loosely tied to Ms. Kelly’s earlier work Waking Up Married but can be read independently. Mira Lyn Kelly is a new author for me, but I know I’ll be going back to see what she’s got on her back list.

Her Valentine Fantasy by Nancy Warren

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Her Valentine Fantasy
Grade-C+
Hotness Level-Blaze
Kink Level-No Kink
Genre-Contemporary
Reviewed by Kay
91 pages
 
Jessica is on a first date at one of the city’s ritziest restaraunts with a total douche, who leaves her holding the bill at the end. Flustered and shocked, she accidentally leaves her hotel room keycard in the bill folder instead of her credit card, and then leaves. Sam, the owner of the restaraunt, was filling in for a waiter that evening and had flirted a bit with Jessica. Now, don’t go thinking that Sam is a jerk for flirting with her while she was on a date, because he didn’t start flirting until after he noticed the nose-dive the date was taking, and even then, the douche had left the table. When he finds the keycard, he decides to take it back to her at the hotel (a convenient few blocks away). What else would a non-douche-y guy do?
I struggled a bit with the ending. The main conflict in the story came from the fact that both Sam and Jessica were hiding something. Sam was hiding the fact that he was the owner of the restaraunt, and not just a waiter. Jessica lied and told Sam that she was from out of town. When the ending came around, the lies hadn’t been dealt with…at all. I would have liked to see the ending handled a bit differently, but that might have been expecting too much in such a short book.
All in all, this was a fun, flirty read. Just right for Valentine’s Day. I would recommend it for anyone who has a soft spot for Valentine’s Day or who likes their romances to be low-conflict. I’ll definitely be looking into more books by Nancy Warren.
Each year I try to read at least one Christmas romance, but this is the first Valentine’s romance I’ve read. Are you a fan of holiday romances? What recommendations do you have?

After The Storm by Maya Banks

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After the Storm (KGI, #8)

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Grade-C
Hotness Level-Blaze
Kink Level-No Kink
Series-KGI, #8
Genre-Contemporary Romantic Suspense
Reviewed by Kay
392 pages

Donovan Kelly is one of the Kelly’s of KGI. He’s the computer geek that looks like anything but a geek. He’s as devilishly handsome as his other brothers. He can lead in the war room or in the field. Donovan sees his brothers one by one falling in love and having babies and knows he wants this too but hasn’t found the right woman yet. He’s on the look out for her but not devoting himself to the search, much to his mother’s dismay.

Eve is in her mid twenties and in big trouble. She basically kidnapped her two younger half siblings from the father, her step-father. She knows he killed her mother and made advances on her. Because of her rebuffing him, he has had her declared unstable and alerted the law to her taking of the children. The three so them are on the run from him. They wind up in the Kelly’s hometown and on their radar. When Eve realizes this, she knows they have to run because she can’t afford to trust anyone.

I read a lot of reviews of this book and most of them very unfavorable. I thought the book was okay. It wasn’t the best in the series but it wasn’t the worst either. That honor still belongs to Nathan and Shay’s book. My complaint was that his internal conversations were so damn repetitive that I thought I would scream. I’ve waited for Donovan’s book for awhile, so it not being wonderful was a disappointment but not a total loss either. I’ll still read this series because it’s solid and I did get a catch up on all the other Kellys.