Review: Is it hot in here...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 6, 2013
Wow! Joshua Steele is... just, wow! He is another super Alpha, I can only imagine what he'll be like ten years from now. Sheesh!I read a few reviewers that thought he was overboard with his possessiveness with Carissa at such a young age,  but all I can say is "context", people. Think about it. Her mother's an abuser, physically, mentally, and verbally. She has neglected her daughter to the point of abandonment. Then her father, out of guilt because he hasn't been there for her in the past, puts no boundaries on her, and even though he doesn't intend for it to be this way, he has also abandoned her. She needs someone to care enough to tell her "no" to things that could potentially harm her. She needs boundaries to feel safe and loved. Enter Joshua.Please, people. Remember that this is fiction. There must be some suspension of disbelief when reading fiction. That means that you have to have a willingness to suspend your critical faculties and believe the unbelievable. I am a forty year old mother of a twenty-one year old boy and a seventeen year old girl. I would freak out if some boy tried to take over my daughter's life. BUT, I also am fully involved with my daughter, and she doesn't need a Joshua to do my parenting for me. PLUS, believing the unbelievable here, is that Joshua, though fallible in the story, truly loves Carrie, completely and thoroughly. He isn't selfish in his feelings for her. I'm not sure that there are any teenagers like that in the world. AGAIN, it is fiction. So let it go, haters!Anyway... I absolutely wished that there had been someone like that when I was in high school. I needed a hero, but everyone was in their own little world. No one saw me. But, I met my man, and three weeks and two days later we were married. It may have started as lust at first sight, but it was meant to be. So insta-love? Yeah, I believe it happens. He was my first, in every way, and he has been my only. Twenty-two years and still going strong. So, in my mind, Joshua and Carissa could happen. Is it unlikely? Maybe so, but I loved it.There was the typical high school angst in it. Joshua reacted to Carrie at on point, like the teenager he was: immature. He recognized what he did, and he did his best to make it up to her. I wasn't left with the opinion that they were more mature than their ages would permit. Joshua was a focused young man that knew what he wanted, starting with his college choice, his future career, and then when he met Carissa, she was put at the top of the list of his goals.My god, were those sex scenes between them hot or what? I loved how Joshua took his time with her because of her innocence. She wasn't just another notch on his belt, and he treated her like a princess. But even before he took her, took her, the things he did with her? Lord, I think I swooned a bit. He was so... no words. No words. And then after he made her completely his, *wink-wink*, things just heated up even more. Dang, that girl can write a love scene.So, bravo, Jordan. Once again, you've captured everything that makes a good story come alive for me. Keep up the good writing!And as usual, with Jordan Silver, you always get the same thing:NO CHEATING. Thank you very much!HEA