Review: I want to go this more than 5 stars.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 21, 2014
I have been waiting for Hot As Stone since I first read Cain’s Salvation.  I LOVED that book.  Surely nothing could top it, right?I am not sure if Hard As Stone topped it because I really love Cain, BUT, if it didn’t, it is right up there with it.  I loved loved loved Hard As Stone.  (That is a triple love there you see.)453 pages read in one day.Yep.I could not put this book down.  It was one of those books that had me carrying my iPad around the house with me, to the store, outside while the kids were playing.  Anytime I had a spare minute I read and I kept reading until 2 this morning when I finally swiped over to the last page.  I actually kept reading still because there is the first chapter of the next book after Hard As Stone and I had to see which sister it was going to be about.Jacob Stone has had one hell of a life.  He has been with the DEA and is searching for the man he believes to be responsible for his sister’s death.  He has no time for love, he does his job, usually as an undercover agent, and gets out.  He isn’t proud of everything he has done, but he isn’t ashamed of it either.Harmony McKinnon.Those McKinnon sisters have more trouble coming to their front door than any other family I have read about.We know from Cain’s Salvation that Harmony was married to Tanner and through that horrible relationship she has a beautiful daughter named Heaven.  She doesn’t date, she doesn’t give her heart away, and there are very few men she trusts.These two meet at the family’s restaurant and the story takes off from there.I was so happy to see all of my favorites back in this book.  Zeke, Cain, Abel, Aunt Orla, and all of the sisters.  I cannot say how much I love the interactions between this family and their extended family.  The sisters make me long for more sisters (I suppose I shouldn’t 2 brothers for 2 more sisters).  I mean, I love my own sister, but we are not nearly as funny as the 4 McKinnon sisters, though we would protect each other just as fiercely.There were moments in this book where I was snorting I was laughing so hard.  I almost facebooked the authors at 1 in the morning because I was rolling in my bed reading the scene where Patience was drugged up.  Rolling I tell you.  I am surprised I didn’t wake the house up.  The wit and the comedic scenes in this book alone are enough to make me keep following Sarah O’Rourke and all of their books!But it isn’t just about the funny.  They write amazing dramatic scenes.  Storylines that carry over from one book to the next (both Cain’s Salvation and Hard As Stone are stand alones, no cliff hangers).  Just an example, as I said before we learned about what happened to both Honor and Harmony in the best.  That storyline came back up and was more involved as Sarah weaved details of the past in and out of the current situation, tying it all together.Then there is the hot scenes.Holy cow.I was fanning myself.I think I may have blushed.See, these books, this series, is listed under erotica and THIS is the kind of erotica I like to read.  It is not just about sex with some lame story line thrown in.  This is an amazing, HOT, suspenseful, dramatic, funny (SO funny) book.  It is so much more than erotica, though that is definitely there.I am going to say it again, amazing amazing amazing read!  I cannot say enough how much I loved this book.This is seriously one of those books that make you rethink the stars you have rated every single other book, because if this is 5 you are not sure how all the others that you loved were 5s also.I thank the authors so much for my copy of Hard As Stone.  One of my favorite books that I have read this year (and I have read 141 books so far this year).