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Garrison’s Creed by Cristin Harber

Posted on by Dirty Girl Anne

Garrison's Creed (Titan, #2)
Grade-B
Hotness Level-Inferno
Kink Level-No Kink
Series-Titan #2
Genre-Romantic Suspense
Reviewed by Kay
280 pages

Cash and Nicola were raised together. Cash was Nicola’s brother’s best friend. Nicola had to enter witness protection and everyone thought she was dead. She became a CIA spy and she was pretty good at it. When Cash catches sight of Nicola through his sniper lens, he’s floored. The woman he thought was dead, the only woman he has ever loved is alive.

Reading this book was fun and sexy. Very sexy. Cash is a doll. I can so see how Nic fell in love with him. All girls fall for a bad boy at one time or another. He was a man-whore. A slut really. I mean seriously. He’s an alpha male without being an asshole. All the things I personally adore. Nicola was a tough chick and I enjoyed her character as well.

I would give this book three and half stars because I felt it drug in the middle a little too long and kind of lost me. It did pick up and I ended up enjoying It quite a bit. I definitely will read the rest of this series. I’m very intrigued about Sugar. Who doesn’t love sugar? The suspense is great for a romantic suspense lover. And she chose his last name after her time in witness protection was over, sigh.

Issy’s Infatuation by Shelley Munro

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Issy's Infatuation

Grade: C-
Hotness Level: Inferno
Kink Level: No Kink
Genre: Contemporary, Novella
Published: 3/10/2007
Reviewed by Anne
47 pages
 
Issy is a rugby player hoping to move up from her small team to a more competitive one.  She’s surprised when her new coach is her long time crush Tyler.  He proposes a month of hot sex between them and she takes him up on it, hoping he’ll be hooked on her and want to stick around until the month is over. 
 
This one just didn’t work for me.  The writing was hot, but the pacing of the relationship felt rushed. (I know, I know, it’s a novella, but still!)  I think the sex was well written, but the plot was weak and Tyler was kind of a douche.

M/M Monday-Apple Polisher by Heidi Belleau

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Grade-B-
Hotness Level-Inferno
Kink Level-No Kink
Series-Rear Entrance Video #1
Genre-Contemporary M/M
Reviewed by Kate
194 pages

Christian has been accepted into a teaching school that has strict requirements for their students’ dress and behavior, both in school and out. Christian is walking on egg shells because he’s pretty sure if anyone finds out he’s gay, he’ll get kicked out of the program. Max is one of Christian’s new housemates. Despite the fact that Max didn’t want Christian as a housemate, Christian finds himself drawn to Max. But Max is a mystery. No one knows what he does for a living or even what his last name is. When Christian’s aunt gets too sick to work at the porn store she owns, Christian finds himself offering to help out. But working at a porn store could definitely get him kicked out of the teaching program if anyone found out. Can Christian manage to keep so many secrets without losing Max in the process?

It always amazes me when an author can hold my attention when their characters are being such idiots. Christian has his head so far up his ass that he doesn’t see that he’s losing himself in order to become a picture perfect teacher. Luckily, Max is there and not afraid to tell Christian what’s what.. But even through all of Christian’s obliviousness, I kept turning the pages. Even when Christian pushes Max away because he doesn’t fit the perfect teacher mold, I kept turning pages. I’m not a huge fan of “I’ve got a secret or ten” plots. I prefer that the characters actually talk to one another. But despite all the secrets, this one worked for me. I got the need for the secrets in this case. Thankfully, the ending pulled everything to a happy conclusion, all wrapped up with a bow.

I look forward to reading more of Heidi Belleau’s strong characters, emotional plots, and page scorching love scenes in the next book in this series. Now if I only had more time to catch up on her backlist.