Review: Would have given each of the books different ratings but the price makes it an amazing purchase
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 25, 2014
This is a box set by Mandy Roth.  I got it for the price of $0.99.  For that price you can forgive some minor problems.Executive Decision:  was my least favorite of all the stories.Liz Rogers works for some big marketing company.  The story opens with her in a "relationship" with her boss.  Dale is not only her co-worker but her closest friend.  They act like an old married couple but they never have sex. Both of them insist that they are only friends.  It becomes very clear very quickly that their "friendship" is actually both of them in denial as so their true feelings.I had a hard time with this story.  I can not imagine have a platonic relationship with someone for that long that I "walked around almost naked in front of".  The whole boss thing also was really yucky for lack of a better word.Some of their arguments seemed confusing and the story developed in a strange way.  I was very confused by Dakota and the things that came to light about him in the end.I would have give this book a 2.5 starsIt has graphic sex scenes and some language.Crazy for You:Meredith has decided to stop running and return to her roots.  She literally bumps into Landry on her first day in town.  It is clear from the beginning that the two of them get each other and should be together.This is a fun story.  I liked both of the main characters and most of the supporting characters.  Again it had some confusing moments to it.  She started school young, went off to college, but also married and got pregnant?  When before she left for college, after she left for college...It was confusing.  She worked at the dinner for 5 years, when?  Was she 12 because she left for college at 17.As you can see there were parts of the back story that just didn't make sense to me.SPOILER:The two times that they had meet before they meet and neither remembered or recognized the other was too much of a coincident for me.  One time I could believe but two times.....But I really liked the story and the characters.So I would have given this story a 3 star.Again there was some graphic sex scenes.Simmering Seductions:This was my favorite of the three stories.  Warning this is not a spoiler the author puts it in her letter to the reader, this book deal with abuse.  Physical as well as mental.  The subject matter may not be for everyone.  It is done in a way that will make some people very angry.Devon has just moved to New York.  She left her famous pro-football playing husband about a year ago and she is ready to start her life over.  As she is moving into her new apartment building she bumps into Kurt.  There is an immediate attraction between the two of them.Devon "feels" like she has know Kurt forever.  Kurt knows within minutes that they share a past.I loved these two people and you root for them right from the beginning.  It was hard to believe that it took Devon so long to figure out who Kurt is to her, because the reader begins to understand almost from the very beginning.  Everyone in Devon's life seems to be in on the secret but she is clueless for a very long time.Not sure how anyone could be that clueless.  Neither of them have figured out who Brody is to them, Kurt doesn't realize that it is her in the painting in his restaurant, She doesn't know that the woman who helps her through her terrible time is his mother....the list of things that no one clue is on is long and unbelievable.The other thing I  had a hard time with was how quickly her brother and Jack were comfortable telling her entire life story in front of a stranger.  Who would do that?But it was a powerful book.  Her defense of Drew was I don't even have words.  Good people can become very bad people when they become addicts.  When you see how she feel into her relationship with Drew you understand why she stayed.  It had some very tough themes but I felt like it was down in a very honest way.Book has some flash backs of violence.  Some graphic sex and some language.I give it 4.5 stars for being so honest and brave.