Heat Level – Blaze

Bewitching The Duke by Christie Kelley

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Bewitching the Duke
Grade-B
Hotness Level-Blaze
Kink Level-No Kink
Genre-Historical
Reviewed by Kay
234 pages

Selina is a wise woman/healer for the Duke of Northrop’s estate. She is caught trying to do a cleansing of his home prior to a wedding that’s to take place there. The Duke is furious about this because he blames a wise woman for the death of his wife and son. When he finds out that woman in his house is none other than the daughter of that wise woman, he is beyond furious.
He has her thrown out of the house and eventually off his estate. The only problem is that his tenants that he has neglected for eight long years love her. They even help hide her in his home for weeks. When his sister arrives and has health problems, Selina comes to the rescue. The Duke and Selina start a truce so to speak that leads to other things that bind this couple. But there’s a secret that can tear them apart.
I really liked this book. I am a big fan of Christie Kelley and bought this book almost a year ago. It has sat on my Kindle due to my ridiculous TBR list. I’m so glad I finally read it. She’s a great author, with great characters and good love scenes. I needed this book to be wonderful and it truly was. I just wish she wrote them faster!

Three Little Words by Susan Mallery

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Three Little Words (Fool's Gold #12)
Grade-B
Hotness Level-Blaze
Kink Level-No Kink
Series-Fool’s Gold #12
Genre-Contemporary
Reviewed by Kay
336 pages

Ford Hendrix has come home. A former Navy SEAL and hometown hero. He has come home to run a business with four of his military friends. He has come home to a family that overwhelms him and an ex-fiancé who jilted him for his former best friend. He also came home to the woman who has loved him since she was fourteen.

Isabel Carlisle has also come home. She came home from New York after a failed marriage. She’s running her family’s business, just until she can regroup and raise more money for her fashion business she wants to open in NYC. She has a sister she barely knows and has to face the man she loved years ago.

From Ford’s fights with Angel, to his mother’s please marry my son booth at the festival, to the fake relationship and the letters that bound these two people to each other, this was a great book. Funny, sweet and sexy. I even sighed. You even got a twofer, Kent and Consuelo’s story. That was the only weak part of the book. Their relationship was abrupt without secrets coming to the surface. Otherwise, another great one from Susan Mallery.

Never Deal with Dragons by Lorenda Christianson

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Never Deal with Dragons

 
Grade: B+
Hotness Level: Blaze
Kink Level: No Kink
Genre: Paranormal, Dragons
Reviewed by Anne
235pages
 
“It’s amazing how often my day starts with a three-legged dragon and an enraged dairy farmer.” p.11  So starts Never Deal with Dragons.  Myrna Banks is a rarity in her time – she can speak dragon language.  Ever since the dragons were accidentally created during World War III, humans have needed dragonspeakers and negotiators.  Myrna is good at both, though she is underappreciated in her current position.  This is due, mainly to some bad choices she made regarding her ex-boyfriend, Trian.  So she is much less than happy when he waltzes into the middle of her negotiations between the 3 legged dragon (pregnant with twins and very hungry!) and a dairy farmer less one cow and beloved pet.  Unfortunately it looks like Myrna and Trian will be seeing a lot more of each other as he works for a dragon who needs her help.
 
From the very first line to the end of this story, I didn’t want to put this book down.  It’s an interesting world with interesting characters!  Just the concept of dragons being created and then turning out to be dominate over humans…  really fun to read how this has played out and changed the world.
Myrna was a strong woman who seemed to get into a lot of situations, but they weren’t humiliating for the sake of humiliating her character, and she was very good at handling them.  This is good, because the whole story is told from her point of view.  That was a drawback for me, as I enjoy seeing the hero’s point of view, but it worked in this book.  
 
Myrna was frustrating at times.  She had a tendency to cut Trian off when he was trying to explain himself, and this created most of the conflict in the book.  If she’d listened to him, or asked a few more questions instead of assuming, the whole thing would have played out much more smoothly, and it still would have been a good story, in my opinion.
 
Trian wasn’t quite sorry enough for the wrong he did to Myrna, but she kept cutting him off before he could really say sorry, so I’ll cut him some slack, and his actions certainly made up for the past. 
 
The first half of the book was better than the second, but both were still good.  It was pretty funny throughout, though.  The situations with the dragons were real for the world created, but still really funny.  It was a wonderful world and I hope there will be more stories in it!