Review: Bare Assets. Another smash hit!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 12, 2013
How smokin hot is that cover?! It's one I want sitting on my bookshelf all pretty and sexy like. Skip reading the reviews & go buy it. This book has catapulted up my ladder so I just wanna slap you & tell you to go to your one-click happy place & buy this book, then read it pronto!M.L Stephens' writing is nothing new to me. When I read Love You More (book one of her Broken series), I fell in love with her smooth style, heartfelt words and passages that are so meaningful and heartfelt that I wanted to read them over and over again. So when she asked me if I would like to read it, I politely accepted by typing 'Hell yes! I mean...I'd love to.' I cleared my reading schedule, popped by babies to bed & turned my phone to silent. I knew I was in for the duration. Let me tell you right off the cuff, I didn't regret it for a moment. She had me under her spell."Dean Murray did something to her that no one else had ever done. He left her breathless, speechless and trembling in the knees..."Bare Assets delivered the goods in spades. It was full of the beautiful story telling I've come to expect from Stephens & characters so perfectly developed that I felt their emotions and their back stories pouring off the pages. Rumors, secrets, betrayal, banter and romance that is told so perfectly it had me highlighting passage after passage."They were kindred spirits who had been carelessly tossed into the winds of agonizing loss and left to drift on the currents of loneliness. Two broken spirits had saved one another from the chasms of eternal solitude."There were moments of understanding, forgiveness and falling in love and there were times of sadness, heartbreak & tears. I felt all these things as I stayed up early into the morning devouring their story. Times I giggled, and times I openly sobbed feeling like my heart was broken."There are countless occasions when kind words are desperately needed, but then where quiet times filled with anguish and sorrow that required silent understanding."Don't forget the sexy times. Man-oh-man, did it have sexy times! The authority Dean had during those times was panty dropping & the liberating shower was hella hot. For me, the sexy scenes really did set itself apart from the other novels I've read in this genre. They weren't smutty or crude. They were tasteful, erotic & cold shower inducing. Dean was the master of oral seduction."He was a man determined to bring this woman to the doors of ecstasy and then calmly lay her down in a bed of sated acceptance and desire."In 2 weeks everything has changed. Come unravelled. Her business was sabotaged, she's got to decide whether to close a door, and whether to open another one. Pick up this story today to find out what happens...Well done Stephens