This is one of my all-time favorite Nora Roberts series/trilogies. It's like Nora decided to writeReread July'2022
5+ stars - Horror/Paranormal Romance
This is one of my all-time favorite Nora Roberts series/trilogies. It's like Nora decided to write a creepy Stephen King horror story with romance, and it works.
This is one of my all-time favorite Nora Roberts series/trilogies. It's like Nora decided to writeReread July'2022
5+ stars - Horror/Paranormal Romance
This is one of my all-time favorite Nora Roberts series/trilogies. It's like Nora decided to write a creepy Stephen King horror story with romance, and it works.
I've tried, two different times, to read/finish this book, but I just couldn't get all the way through and ended up skimming most of it. The writing sI've tried, two different times, to read/finish this book, but I just couldn't get all the way through and ended up skimming most of it. The writing style didn't work for me, and there's way too much tedious, exhausting description and detail. *Bored yawn*...more
Boy oh boy did I love thisReread/listened to audiobook version Aug'2022:
5++ Contemporary Romance
Original rating/review:
5+ stars – Contemporary Romance
Boy oh boy did I love this book!! “Smooth Talking Stranger” is a sinfully decadent treat for contemporary romance lovers! It’s like Godiva for chocolate lovers and a good French roast for coffee lovers...just yum!
I loved “Sugar Daddy”, despite that it leaned more towards chick-lit and really liked “Blue-Eyed Devil”, even though it was heavy on the drama and lacked Hardy’s viewpoint, but “Smooth Talking Stranger” is straight up romance and nice and steamy, just the way I like it!
Bachelor playboy Jack Travis is positively delicious...pure male and completely irresistible. Miss Independent Ella Varner tries mighty hard to resist his charms, but she’s delusional if she thinks for one minute that would ever work against a sexy, sweet, confident, enticing man’s man like Jack. I kept screaming...girl, if you don’t hurry and snatch him up you are crazy!
There are so many funny, tender, sexy moments in this book that it’s impossible to do it justice. The banter between Ella and Jack is a real delight. And good lord, the scenes with Jack caring for and playing with the baby nearly made me faint! He’s just absolutely swoon-worthy! There’s really no other way to describe him.
Ella hales from Austin (where I happen to live) and Kleypas’s description of the hippie Austin boyfriend Dane, with his hemp shirt and Birkenstocks, cracked me up because it’s just so true. Being an independent-minded, liberal vegetarian living in the conservative Lone Star State myself, I identified a lot with Ella’s character, but knew she stood no chance against a force like Jack Travis! He could pursue me any day girlfriends!
Even if you didn’t care for “Sugar Daddy” and/or “Blue-Eyed Devil” or avoided them because of the mixed reviews, don’t miss out on the sheer pleasure that is “Smooth Talking Stranger”, and I think it would be okay as a stand-alone novel. It’s utterly delightful and a contemporary romance lover’s dream...big 5 stars!...more
It's hard to believe that it's been 11 years since I first read this. I still love Lisa Kleypas's writing, but I didn't love this booRe-read Oct'2021:
It's hard to believe that it's been 11 years since I first read this. I still love Lisa Kleypas's writing, but I didn't love this book as much this time. I didn't like Alex in the beginning but he grew on me. Lily's constant obstinance and continued secrecy drove me nuts. But it's a passionate, emotional romance, so I'm still giving it 5 stars.
Original rating/review:
5+ stars – Historical/Regency Romance
Although I’d previously read and loooved Kleypas’s Travis’s series, this was the first historical romance of hers that I read, and it’s no wonder that she’s such an incredibly popular romance author. The relationship between wild spitfire spinster Lily Lawson and stodgy Alex, Lord Raiford, from bitter antagonism to explosive passion that turns to cordial respect and then deep affection, is sheer magic to behold. This book inflamed my LK admiration that first began with my love for Sugar Daddy and then continued with my utter enjoyment of the entire Travis’s series, Dreaming of You, Again the Magic, and most recently with the Wallflowers series. I look forward to more wonderful books by this remarkably gifted author!...more
I love Julie James's books, and I find her writing witty and refreshing. I stiReread/listened to the audiobook Aug'2022:
4 stars - Contemporary Romance
I love Julie James's books, and I find her writing witty and refreshing. I still liked this, but I didn't quite enjoy it as much as I remembered, mainly because I didn't like Taylor or Jason.
(view spoiler)[I think being a Pri-ya sex slave...living only for food, sleep, and raw, primal, constant sex with an insatiable4 stars – Urban Fantasy
(view spoiler)[I think being a Pri-ya sex slave...living only for food, sleep, and raw, primal, constant sex with an insatiable, inexhaustible, expert, dominating lover/master like Jericho Barrons sounds pretty fecking delicious and tempting! I would have been content to remain in his room...especially his Sun King bed...forever! *naughty girl grin*(hide spoiler)]...more
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