Review: Fun, enjoyable and rather cheesy romance :)
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 1, 2014
3.5-4 starsThis was a pretty good story. Fair warning...this is not what I'd call a serious romance/erotica. This story is a fun and cheesy read. I give you the first paragraph of the story as an example:"It was a dark and stormy night in Bloodsuck, Texas—the kind of night vampire cowboy Rock Fangsworthy loved best. All except for the stormy part. Too much rain made the brim of his Stetson go limp. And if there was one thing Rock wasn't, it was limp. He was rock hard, through and through, from the flinty gaze in his slate-blue eyes to the diamond-tipped spurs on his custom-made, hand-crafted Lucchese lizard skin boots. In fact, Rock had only one soft spot, and that was for his ranch, the Double Fang."Rock Fangsworth is a vampire (who faints at the sight of blood) and is the owner of the Double Fang ranch. He wants to buy out the winery next door but when he goes to try to buy it from the new owners he finds a past lover, Buffi Van Pelt (who is a werewolf), is the new owner. They had been together 3 years before and split up due to a fight (details unknown). Buffi is torn about seeing Rock after all these years, especially since it's only to try to buy the winery so things don't go well on their first meeting. As you may have guessed from the story's name, Buffi has a secret she hasn't told Rock about and with him only seeing her to try to buy the winery she's not sure she should tell him the truth.At this time, Rock actually has a gold-digger named Chastity, as a house guest. She's willing to do whatever it takes to sink her claws in to Rock because all she cares about is money and sparkly gifts. Chastity isn't exactly smart and uses her implanted boobs to try to get her way with men. Things get even more messed up when a vampire hunter named Billy Bob Boberson comes to town looking to stake Rock. Billy Bob isn't real bright either but he does add some interesting twists to the story as he and Chastity end up in cahoots trying to scheme their way in to money they didn't earn.The story takes place over a couple days so obviously Rock and Buffi get things worked out pretty quickly. There's a number of back and forths as they try to stay away from each other but can't resist each other. Eventually they manage to forget about the past argument that broke them up and realize they want to be together. They manage to take care of the situation with Chastity and Billy Bob and (once the secret has been shared) start their HEA.This was a fun, enjoyable story. It is cheesy though so this story is not for someone looking for a serious romance. I totally intend to read the Nine Naughty Novelists other book If You Give a Duke a Duchy, Or, Love's Savage Whiplash. I'd recommend this for anyone looking for a fun read. :DA couple more quotes to give you a feel for the story:"Chastity Feelsgood had been told—more than once—that she wasn't the brightest bulb in the box. But that didn't mean she wasn't bright at all. At least, she was pretty sure that’s not what it meant.""She gave him a sultry smile, that sexy wolf smile that had haunted his dreams and fantasies for the last three years—or was it five? Whatever.“You have such a big...buckle,” she purred.“It’s custom made,” he moaned. “With the Double Fang logo.”Then she flicked the leather belt against his ass with a bite of stinging pleasure.“Ah! Buffi! You vixen.”She paused. “I’m a wolf,” she corrected him. “And don’t you forget it.”“No. Never.” He kissed her once more.She dropped the belt to the floor with a clunk of the heavy buckle. Then she dropped to the floor, too, her fingers now working at the fly of his jeans. When her fingers closed around him, her touch on his throbbing manroot almost brought him to his knees, and once again he gasped her name. His jaw clenched. The vein in his temple throbbed. He threaded his fingers through her pelt of golden hair and held her head as she used her mouth to take him to paradise, used her lips, her tongue, even, dammit, her teeth, those sharp, predatory, meat-eating teeth that made him just a little nervous when she was having lunch downtown. He groaned.""Sometime later—much, much later—Buffi drifted back down from another delicious cloud of bliss she’d been floating on. Something was digging into her back. She slipped a hand beneath herself and pulled out the handcuffs then, with a secret smile, tossed them aside. She ran a hand up and down over Rock’s rock-hard muscles.“Mmmm,” she said. “Oh, Rock. That was so good.”They lay twined together in her bed, sheets tangled around them. Her body ached with sweet satisfaction. He was the only man who could ever make her feel this way. It had always been like that between them. Uncontrollable. Undeniable. Unclothed."