Review: who would have thought making a Naughty List could be so exciting?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 20, 2013
Ever since the fiasco that led to her breaking off her engagement Lacey McGuire has avoided jumping back into the dating pool.  Instead she opts for the BOB and focuses her fantasies on her best friends and business partners Bram and Ryan.  Unfortunately those fantasies are starting to overwhelm her thoughts and with Christmas just around the corner well… it’s time to make up her Christmas wish list – add a little alcohol and that list could turn very naughty.Bram Colton and Ryan Hollister are having a bit of trouble adhering to their hands off policy where Lacey’s concerned.  They’ve been best friends forever and the only time they’ve ever come to blows was when they confessed to their mutual desire for her.  Since neither man was willing to step aside and let the other one have her they agreed that she was off limits to them both.  Fortunately it looks like all their years of self-restraint are at an end because Lacey mistakenly emailed them her Christmas naughty list, in fact she sent it to everyone in her ‘lame laughs’ directory.Bram and Ryan adhered to their pact to keep their hands off Lacey but her Naughty List mentions them by name.  The very last item on her list boldly states ‘I’d have a threesome with Bram and Ryan.’  Of course the first six items on her list are just as tantalizing and Bram and Ryan’s pact has changed from keeping their hands off Lacey to a mission ensuring that Lacey gets to check off every single item on her Naughty List.Lacey’s horribly embarrassed that her goody-two-shoes image is completely blown and tries to play off her Naughty List as nothing more than a joke.  Ryan and Bram aren’t buying it though, they know her too well – and now that they know her desires are much like their own, they’re going to show her just how good they can be together – in business and in love.Confession time!?  Do you make lists?  You know; the shopping list, things to do today, Christmas wish list… oh and the one you never, ever put in writing – the Naughty List.  After all, how embarrassing would it be to have a list of your most illicit fantasies brought out into the open?  Jodi Redford’s THE NAUGHTY LIST takes readers into just such a situation with wickedly delicious results.  Lacey, Bram and Ryan are the best of friends so it’s easy to see where they might fear the results of acting on their desires – at the same time the pull between them is so intense that as a reader you have to wonder how they managed to resist it for so long.  In addition to the scorching romance Ms. Redford injects the perfect amount of humor so this is simply a genuinely fun story to read – any time of year… Christmas stories don’t just have to be read at Christmastime you know?If you like THE NAUGHTY LIST then be sure to pick up a copy of CHECKING IT TWICE, released in November 2012.  This story involves Bram’s sister, Jana, whose appearance in THE NAUGHTY LIST make you wonder just how naughty little sister can be.Chrissy Dionne (courtesy of Romance Junkies)