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Beyond Addiction by Kit Rocha

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Grade: A
Hotness Level: Inferno
Kink Level: Moderate Kink
Genre: Dystopian
Series: Beyond #5
Published: 8/11/14
Reviewed by Anne
229 ebook pages

For starters, you really have to read this series in order.  You officially start with Beyond Shame, book #1, but if you want a smaller taste, you can read Beyond Solitude, which is #4.5, but stands alone really, really well.  And I think you should read this series, because it’s dark and gritty and really, really good.  Oh, and it’s really, really hot, too.

Trix has long been a background character in the O’Kane gang.  She’s a bartender and a dancer at their bar.  At the end of book #4, Beyond Jealously, Trix gets kidnapped and taken to Sector 5, and we learn that’s where she escaped from her life as a prostitute addicted to drugs.

Finn is an enforcer for Mac, the evil overlord of Sector 5.  He actually lives just to undermine Mac, and has since Mac facilitated the overdose of Finn’s favorite girl, Tracy.  He doesn’t care much about living or dying, but he knows Mac is horrible and he’s working on a one man mission to ruin his rule over Sector 5.

That all changes when Finn is called into Mac’s office and sees the newly kidnapped Trix.  Trix is Tracy.  She never really died, she escaped to Sector 4 and changed her name.  Seeing Trix/Tracy spurs Finn to action like nothing else has, and Trix and Finn end up on the run.  They’ve got a twisted history, since their prior relationship took place when Trix was hooked on drugs and Finn was her supplier – giving her the drugs in exchange for sex.  They both had deeper feelings, but the addiction between them blurred everything.

So the question is never really whether Trix and Finn love each other, but it’s how can they work through their history and issues together.  This is complicated somewhat by Trix now being a member of the O’Kanes.  That means Finn will have to find his way to a place in the gang.

The relationship between Trix and Finn was a strong point for me.  I really enjoyed watching them find their way to each other with nothing between them.  The sex scenes are scorching hot, as expected in this series.

Also as expected in this series there’s a menage scene.  That was a bit of a let down for me in this book.  It seemed a bit out of place and it didn’t quite work for me.  I was also surprised at how easily Finn was accepted as an O’Kane, especially given his history of working for Mac Fleming.  Those were the only two week points in the book for me.

Besides Trix and Finn, I really enjoyed checking in with everyone else in the O’Kane gang.  So awesome seeing Dallas and Lex truly sharing power.  I’m also getting curious-er and curious-er about Doc (whose name is Dylan!).  And what’s up with him and Maddox?  I want to go back and re-read the entire series, taking notes this time.  I thought Maddox was paired up with someone.  And then there’s Lili from Sector 5.  That’s one messed up lady, so you know she’s going to end up in Sector 4, hopefully getting some control over her life.  She’s right up Lex’s alley.

So, if you’re reading the series, who is your favorite character?  I’m a huge Noah/Emma fan, but Maddox is probably the one I’m most curious about right now!

No Strings Attached by Reece Butler

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No Strings Attached (MFM)

Grade: C+
Hotness Level: Inferno
Kink Level: Moderate Kink
Genre: BDSM, Contemporary, Menage
Series: Climax, Montana #4
Published: June 2014
Reviewed by Kate

Lila is taking over the ranch while her parents head out on a cruise.  She’s out to prove to everyone that she’s got what it takes.  When Jet and Houston come along looking to hire on as ranch hands, they’re just what the doctor ordered-both for the ranch and for Lila’s sex life.

The main thing that bothered me with this one was that Lila’s parents-Matt, Eric, and Nikki-and her aunt and uncles-Simon, Lance, and Marci-were so open with everyone about her budding relationship with Jet and Houston.  It was a little squick-inducing to hear them tell her to go at it. And to hear them tell Jet and Houston that she needed to be spanked.

I also didn’t really care for the fact that Beth Elliot (an ancestor of Lila and the heroine from Barefoot Bride for Three which took place in 1870) was still in this one, coming back as a spirit. The woman’s dead and buried.  Let her be.  I loved her in her book, but her popping up in the Climax series of books is stretching my boundaries of believability.

This one was filled with everything that I’ve come to love and expect from a Reece Butler read-steamy, hot sex and romance that tugs at my heartstrings.  I’m still enjoying the books, but I would like to see what Reece could do with a different series.  As much as I like the Bride Train series and the Climax, Montana series, I’m ready for something new.

 

 

Winter of the Wolf by Cherise Sinclair

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Winter of the Wolf (Wild Hunt Legacy #2) by Cherise Sinclair

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Grade: A-
Hotness Level: Inferno
Kink Level: Moderate Kink
Genre: Paranormal, Shifter, Menage
Series: Wild Hunt Legacy #2
Published: 3/23/12
Reviewed by Kate

I just finished reading this Cherise Sinclair book, you know how I love a Cherise Sinclair read, and couldn’t wait to tell you about it.  Anyway, this one is part of her shifter menage series.  I read the first one in the series (Hour of the Lion) a few years ago and always meant to get around to buying/reading this one, and I finally did.  I don’t know why I waited so long!

This one is about Bree-I don’t know that I’ve ever met a more tortured heroine.  Bree was found at the age of 3, abandoned in the woods with only a picture of her parents and a unique bracelet.  She grew up in a series of foster homes, finally running away.  She has settled into a comfortable home life sharing an apartment with her foster-sister Ashley.  But one night a hellhound brutally attacks them, killing Ashley and raping Bree.  And completely ruining the life that Bree worked so hard to build.  Bree flees to recover and decides that she may as well use that time to see if she can track down her parents’ identities as well.

Shay and Zeb fight hellhounds as a team and have complex backgrounds as well.  I’d go into more detail, but I think the main point is that they move together from place to place a lot.  But Shay, Zeb, and Bree all end up in Cold Creek at the same time.  And despite being terrified of anything large and male, Bree finds herself drawn to them and feeling safe and protected when they are around.

I will say that this one was a little predictable for me.  There were multiple points in the storylines that I had called ahead of time.  But somehow that didn’t detract from the story at all.  Between the wolf pack politics (I’ve mentioned that Shay and Zeb are werewolves, right?  No, well I did now), more hellhound attacks, and Bree’s discoveries, I’m surprised that there was room for a romance in this book.  But there was!  There was such a romance in here.  *contented sigh*

A definitely must-read for fans of the first book (Hour of the Lion), but it’s easy to read as a stand alone as well.  Flowing between hot and intense and sweet and gentle, this one should satisfy any menage shifter fan’s reading requirements.