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Leather, Lace and Rock-n-Roll by Mia Dymond

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Leather, Lace and Rock-n-Roll (SEALS, Inc., #1)
Grade-D
Hotness Level-Inferno
Kink Level-None
Series-SEALS, Inc. #1
Reviewed by Kay

The story starts out a rock concert for Jaydon Hawke’s band. Rachel, the heroine and Cameron, her best friend are trying to get backstage with only one pass. Cameron is trying to get Rachel to take a walk on the wild side and sleep with a rock star. Rachel is kind of shy and considers herself smart but not attractive.

Jaydon Hawke is a bonafide rock star. Oh yeah, and he’s also a a Navy SEAL. Rachel helps him with a stuck zipper and he’s hooked from there.  He’s undercover trying to capture a terrorist and thinks Rachel is somehow involved.

Nothing about this story worked for me at all. I tried, I really did. It has two things I love to read about: Navy SEALS and rock stars. Still those things did not help. Let me list what I liked and disliked.

Like- Max. He was a good character.

Disliked- A rock star that’s a Navy SEAL? Come on. Cameron grated my nerves so bad I thought I was gonna scream. The men in the story were a little Beta for me. The sex scenes-not enough and not hot enough.

I gave  the book a D rating because I admire authors and the sacrifices they and their families make so we as readers have something to read. Otherwise, my review rating would’ve been worse.

BB Dalton by Cat Johnson

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BB Dalton (Red, Hot & Blue Bonus Read)
Grade-C
Hotness Level-Blaze
Kink Level-None
Series-Red, Hot & Blue #3.5
Reviewed by Kay

This is a very short read. More of a short story than a novella.

BB Dalton is a Navy SEAL. His real name is William Robert Dalton. You guessed it…BB is short for Billy Bob. He was an underwear model in his life before the military.

Katie Jorgenson is an advertising executive, I think. She’s in charge of a project that will help recruiting for the military, supposedly. She has chosen BB to be the poster child of this project.

Despite his wishes not to be a part of this, BB and Katie start touring after BB gets his pictures taken. The two become close after spending this time together. Katie is very concerned with the age difference, as she is eleven years his senior. BB could care less about the difference in their ages. Katie fights her attraction but does relent eventually and really, who could blame her.

This is a semi-steamy short story that can be finished in one sitting. I had been wanting and waiting to read a Cat Johnson story for a while. I liked it but I thought it would’ve been hotter.

Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren

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Beautiful Bastard (Beautiful Bastard, #1)
Grade-C
Hotness Level-Inferno
Kink Level-None
Series-Beautiful Bastard #1
Reviewed by Kay

Bennett Ryan is the hero of the novel and he is a beautiful bastard. He’s attractive so that covers the beautiful part. He’s also a bastard because he’s is arrogant and an ass of the highest order. “Beautiful Bastard” is his assistant’s nickname for him.

His assistant and heroine of the book is Chloe. She works for him at his family owned media company as part of an internship for her college degree. She doesn’t have any family in the area, so the Ryans have taken her in to their family in a way. Bennett was over in France during that time so he really didn’t know her.

This novel is predominantly a collection of sex scenes with some story sprinkled in. Don’t get me wrong, I love sex scenes but I would’ve liked a little more story to go with them. The characters were kind of unlikable too. Bennett was an ass and Chloe was bitchy. Together they were explosive but hard to root for. Regardless, I did enjoy the book.