September 5th, 2009 — 4 Stars, A-C, ARC, Contemporary, Cowboy, Cursed Lead, Friends, Mistaken Identity, Ranching, Secret Baby, United States of America, Western
Lucky in Love is a riot. Brown had fun putting phrases together that read like classic stereotypical western and modern feisty romance rolled into one. You’ll find expressions like: “my hide tacked to the smokehouse door,” “she belongs like a horse apple in a church social punch bowl,” and “heartache bigger than Dallas” to name a few. They were probably my favorite part of the book and never failed to make me smile or laugh out loud when they appeared.
Anthony “Beau” Luckadeau is lucky at everything but not lucky in love. He plans to prove them all wrong by proposing to Amanda, though his heart has long been lost to Amelia Jiminez, a one night stand at his cousin’s wedding. When he does propose everyone forces a smile and shakes his hand but nobody is congratulating him (not that he notices) because Amanda is the worst wife Beau could have picked. She hates ranching, barns, his friends, his workers, his home, and his nickname. It’s not classy enough for her.
Amelia Jiminez on the other hand is none other than sassy Camellia “Milli” Torres. She’s in Oklahoma to help her Granny and Poppy out on their ranch while Poppy is healing from surgery. She and her toddler Katy would never have stepped a foot out of Texas if she’d known Beau was Poppy’s neighbor. If making him dance in the dirt under fire of a .22 rifle doesn’t force him to keep his distance nothing will… and part of her doesn’t want him to stay away which makes him all the more dangerous.
Rating: 4 Stars
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June 11th, 2009 — 3.5 Stars, 4 Stars, Book Review, Contemporary, Erotica, M-O, Musician, United States of America
The first time she met Dex Wilder she was in a bed sheet and body glitter. The second time she was in handcuffs. Could a girl never catch a break?
Sydney Stratton is a tall honey-blond light blue-eyed struggling singer. She wants to make it big and doesn't want to use her looks to get there. Sleazy talent agents, grabby hands and propositions are a hazard and ones she's learn to avoid. When she isn't with her band playing a gig in a seedy bar, she's sleepy, writing music, or most likely working her tailbone off at a caterer job to make ends meet.
She meets Dex Wilder on the eve of his fame. They hit it off, attraction sizzling between the two enough to set her toga on fire (not literally). They have wild heart-pounding, breath-stealing sex, and when he wants her number she runs off. Sydney tried to relegate their fling into a one-night stand and forget him, but soon his picture is everywhere, his music everyone.
When they meet again, she's still as she was, struggling to get her big break. The lust is at an all time high and it's only ratcheted up a notch or two or twenty with the handcuffs. He's still interested in her, wants to take her to dinner but the perils of his fame are already zapping. Scared and unsure of his sincerity, Sydney runs... it's a good thing Dex has longer-legs or he'd never catch her.
My two favorite lines:
I instantly knew what sex with him would be like: hot, hard, and devastating.
Dex Wilder was definitely better than anything you could order from a catalog.
The story is good, solid, and sexy. The editing, not so much, which by now is a dead horse.
Rating: 3.5-4 Stars
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