Review: I'm Hooked!  **SPOILER ALERT**
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2014
How the heck did this happen?  I don't even like books set in the roaring twenties, and I certainly DO NOT like serial novels.  So, how in the heck did I get hooked on a serial novel set in the 1920's?  Can someone PLEASE explain that to me!  Da*n Amazon, or the author, or whoever it is who came up with the brilliant idea to offer this first installment for free.  LOLThis is the first of a series of novels in a continuing story.  Scarlett Bottom (yes that is her actual name, given to her by her parents) is 16 years old when she first meets Tony Galante at a Christmas party.  Tony catches Scarlett spying on her sister and her beau, while they are kissing.  Tony then proceeds to give Scarlett a punishment fitting the crime--he spanks her.  LOLFast forward six years later.  Scarlett and her family have fallen on hard times, and the once leisure girl is now forced to work for a living.  Scarlett has spent the last three years working to eke out a living, while simultaneously trying to track down her sister's whereabouts.  Her search leads her to Dapper Harry's a nightclub.  In order to fully follow up on the lead, Scarlett takes a job at the club working as a waitress.One night, while getting ready for work in a back room, Tony walks in on her.  One thing leads to another and the next thing you know, the two are having hot, scorching sex.  And I do mean HOT!!!Tony is all alpha male, and Scarlett is a feisty, smart-mouthed female.  They make quite a pair.  The story is so thoroughly engaging that I am absolutely hooked!  I can't wait to find out what happens next.  I've already been skulking around Ms. Sands' webpage and found two other installments in the book.  I hope to my heavenly Father that this serial ends soon though, otherwise I'll be broke.  LOLNeedless to say I absolutely recommend this book.  Just be ready to shell out some money in order to finish it.  It's well written with relatable characters.  My hats off to Ms. Sands.  Usually, whenever I read a first installment of a serial, I can take it or leave it.  That's not to say the story isn't interesting, but it doesn't get its claws into me.  One of the main reasons for that I think, is because the characters are not usually so well developed in the first book.  Here, however, Ms. Sand manages to give us a very thorough picture of Scarlett--I already like her and relate to her and her plight--although there is still a lot to be revealed about Tony.Great story!  Hot sex!  Awesome read!  Happy reading!