Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Spectators by Maggie Wells

















18+ review


Spectators


By Maggie Wells


Book Blurb:
From the moment she steps into the exclusive Spectator Club, Grace Andrews finds herself caught between heaven and hell. Dark and light, two halves of a delicious whole, partners Damien and Gabriel are intrigued by the newest member of the club. Intrigued enough to take her initiation in hand...and mouth. And anything else. Because at the Spectator Club, anything goes.


These little dirty bits by Maggie Wells are hot little numbers. Super quick reads for only .99 that packs a punch. They are short yet they seem longer. This erotic novella, Spectators it the perfect little smut fix you are looking for. 

With a play on character names, you have the ever feminine Grace, the devil Damien and Gabriel the watcher. Mix the threesome together and you are taken on a voyeuristic trip to heaven. 

You can feel the thumping of the bar music and the feel the blinking lights as Grace enters the Spectators club. Looking to live out a fantasy with funds left over from an inheritance, Grace plans to just do that. In her high heels and her sleek and sexy clothes Grace joins the club to act out a sexual fantasy and Damien and Gabe are only too happy to participate.

Damien seeks out Grace almost as she enters the Spectators club. With three little words all women love to hear, "I want you" Grace willingly and lustfully turns herself over. For Grace the Earth tilts on its axis as she makes her way to the "special" one way mirror rooms to find her Utopia. The erotic threesome balance heaven and hell as Grace is taken on a trip between good and bad. Enjoy the journey as much as I did!


Teasers:  "Nothing more beautiful than a woman taking what she wants." 






Missed Connection by Maggie Wells


















18+ review


Missed Connection


By Maggie Wells


Book Blurb:
Saturday morning sorority girl-Cuppa Joe-Halsted St. 

At least that's what you look like to me. I see you every Saturday, ordering your non-dairy, decaf, why-bother version of coffee. 

You with the Goldilocks hair, big blue eyes, and toothpaste smile. You match your little gym outfits to your yoga mat and clutch your Blackberry like a lifeline. 

I shouldn't be attracted to you, but I am. You want me too. I've caught you, you know. You stare at me with the same hungry gaze you use on the chocolate croissants in the case. 

Do you have a craving for ink, Goldilocks? Are you itching to take a stroll on the dark side? Will you dare to take a bite, or will you deny yourself pleasure like you do pastry? 

Don't walk away again. Let me have you. Let me have just enough so I can stop thinking about you and you can stop staring at me. Take a taste of me. I dare you. 

Meet me at Cuppa Joe, Friday the 15th at 9PM. Don't settle for just right, Goldilocks - just this once, choose too hard and too hot. 





Before I read this hot little number by Maggie Wells, I had never heard of Missed Connections. I had never knew that there was an internet site dedicated to people posting about a missed meeting or a connection. I looked it up online and spent a little time on there smiling at all the people trying to find that missed connection that they let go by. Some great stories and ads on there. The whole concept is totally cool. What a great idea for a story and that totally got me into the frame of mind as I clicked to open my Kindle. 

Well that brings me to this Missed Connection. Seriously for .99 this sexy short story is super hot and full of fantasy. A hot tattooed coffee barista places a missed connection ad seeking out one of his pretty blond yoga pant wearing customers. When she visits the coffee house, she brings out the hunger in him. He wants that sweet Goldilocks and to take her on a ride to his dark side. He sends out the tempting offer into cyberspace and hopes she shows up and accepts his tempting offer. 

His piercings to her sweet ballet flats that are as opposite as night and day. However their lust for each other is completely mutual.  She answers his ad by showing up and that's when the pages start on fire. A quick erotic read that sets you off into an arousing fantasy where complete strangers just go for it. 

Teasers: you'll never eat a chocolate croissant again and not think about this story

  


A Lady Never Surrenders by Sabrina Jeffries















Lady Celia Sharpe and Jackson Pinter's book




A Lady Never Surrenders

by Sabrina Jeffries

Book Blurb:
With two months left to find a husband to fulfill her grandmother’s ultimatum, Lady Celia Sharpe sets her sights on three eligible bachelors. Becoming betrothed to one of these wealthy, high-ranking men will surely prove her capable of getting married, so hopefully the wedding itself won’t be necessary for Celia and her siblings to receive their inheritance. Step two of her audacious plan is hiring the dangerously compelling Bow Street Runner Jackson Pinter to investigate the three men she’s chosen. But with Lady Celia bedeviling Jackson’s days and nights, the last thing he wants is to help her find a husband. And when she recalls shadowed memories that lead his investigation into her parents’ mysterious deaths in a new direction—putting her in danger—Jackson realizes the only man he wants Celia to marry is himself!


Excellent conclusion to a wonderful series. 

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Out of the Sharpe siblings, Celia seemed to be the one placed off in the background in the other Hellion books. She was there but not much of an appearance in the other stories. So going into A Lady Never Surrenders, I really didn't have any confirmed perceptions about Celia. 

Mr. Pinter however has been in every single book quite a bit since he was the fore front investigator into the deaths of Sharpe's parents.  Celia labelled him "Proper Pinter" and that would ring true. He did come across as very proper and straight. I pictured him stuffy with a tight cravat wrapped around his neck. He was a "by the book" type of man. Celia and Jackson seemed to love to hate each other ever since book 1, The Truth about Lord Stoneville. That contempt made for some great reading and conflict resolution. Reading and feeling the ice melt around Celia and Jackson's hearts was awesome. Also the major steamy kisses were meltworthy too. 

I loved the murder/suicide puzzle that flowed through from book 1, The Truth about Lord Stoneville straight through to this final book, A Lady Never Surrenders.  The mystery was an excellent way to keep readers up to date with all the siblings and their spouses. There were twists and turns and just when I thought I figured it out, Mr. Pinter would take us on another route. I am not a mystery reader so I don't read well into the mystery formulas and their plot lines but I did enjoy this Hellion series. I would gauge it to be a light mystery but regardless, it kept my interest throughout. 

I adored their grandmother all the way along but I got a wee bit annoyed with her in A Lady Never Surrenders. Even though my annoyance was there, I still understood why she was making the decisions she did. It is only because I was privy to Celia and Jackson's point of view that made me mad at her. As always her heart was in the right spot. 

It was a treat to read each story from back to back and that is truly my favourite way to read a series. I had been wanting to read The Hellions series for a while so when this last book A Lady Never Surrenders was recently just released, I knew that this was a perfect time to jump aboard. 

PS - This series did annoy me that the paperback book is only 7.99 from Amazon but the Kindle versions were 10.25. I almost didn't start the series due to this pricing. Small font size in paperbacks drives me crazy. I need my Kindle versions. Not the author's fault by no means so this comment is not reflected in my perfect 5 star rating. Just a fact that makes me crazy!

Teasers: hunting competition for a kiss OR a new rifle, bastard's father revealed, cozy poacher's cottage, kidnapping