Review: Easy fun reads
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 12, 2013
The first story has Eve at a bank robbery gone worse than average, she's almost taken hostage and ends up with the robber's blood all over her when the cops have to take him down. Sebastien freaks a bit about this as he is in love with her, despite the fact that he is 11 years older than her and her step-brother. The character development in this story was well done, and what could have been prurient came off romantic and well done instead. I gave this story a solid 4 stars.The second story is, admittedly, the main reason I got this book, as it had characters referenced in "The Rocker That Holds Me." So, Lexi had been in a horrible car accident 6 months before and, as a result of some brain damage, forgot the 3 months leading up to that point. When Jared enters her life, through a business deal with her father, she doesn't remember him or why they broke up. Jared is thrilled, because he is hoping to be able to win her over without their negative history impacting them. It starts out well, as Lexi is very attracted to Jared, but then her cousin/best friend, Gabrielle, comes to visit. She is the one that had introduced Jared to Lexi to start with and knows why they broke up. Really she knows just enough to cause massive problems. Gabrielle is pissed that Lexi is letting Jared back into her life and does some stuff to try to get him gone again. Eventually Jared gets Lexi to listen to him explain everything that happened and we get our HEA. Yay! I only give this story a 3.5 star rating. I'm hoping that if Terri Anne Browning gives Axton (a secondary character in both this book and in TRTHM) his own story that he won't have to end up with Gabrielle (as we get yet another peek at how much of a witch she is in the epilogue) or that if they do end up together that she gets a major personality overhaul. Gabrielle has a boat load of crappy traits that she needs to make up for.Overall, these were some sweet, easy reads. I personally insist that my romance books have HEA endings and these do. There are no cliffhanger endings (a personal peeve) and everything wraps up nicely.