Review: Box Set Heaven!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 24, 2014
I love Marian Tee and for anyone who hasn't read any of her books and wants an introduction to her style of writing then this is ideal. This box set contains two completed stories of two of the group of billionaires known as the Three Pussketeers as well as the first part of the third. There is also a novella about the first pussketeers story.Chased, Courted, and CagedThis was one of the first books/series by Marian Tee that I read. This was, in my memory anyway, the series that I liked the least. To be able to give a better review I decided to re-read the series (what a hardship I know!). Upon re-reading this I realised that in fact I love this series. Unlike some of Marians other books it is quite tame, don't get me wrong the steamy scenes are there but the full on intimacy doesn't come until later on. The clues are in the names of the individual books!! Yup Yanna makes the Dutch billionaire, Constantijin court her!I had completely forgotten Yanna's initial words to Constantijin, how I managed that I will never know!! I mean from going to say Hello to changing it to Holy . . . .(rude word amazon doesn't like even **ed out!) that will make an impression. As you can expect with him being a billionaire his arrogance will cause problems in the relationship, in fact what he does is just plane horrible. Yanna has a habit throughout the story of slapping him accidentally (yup accidentally!) but when she slaps him properly boy does he deserve it! Yes there is a HEA and in fact at the end of the box set there is the final chapter of their HEA in a sweet novella in true Yanna and Constantijin form but I will talk about that later!When Fangirls Lie and When Fangirls CryI fell in love with Saffi right away when she answered the phone to the gorgeous Staffan to the words 'Suffering Sardines'!! Yup you read it right suffering sardines!! In explanation Saffi loves her fish and when she gets overly emotional comes out with fantastic phrases all including the name of a fish.Saffi is the #1 fangirl for Staffan Aehrenthal and is delighted to receive tickets to go see him in concert. These tickets come around when Steffan cannot forget about the fan he rang for a birthday call. Saffi doesn't realise he knows who she is and some amusing situations result involving her alter ego 'H' (don't ask!). Steffan has been hurt in the past and this makes it hard for him to trust Saffi.In the second part of the story you know that Steffan was going to come to all the wrong conclusions, which he did, but you never expected Saffi to dig her heels in determined to keep the man she loves and make a family together. At this point i'm at a bit of a loss as to what to say so as not to ruin this fantastic book! Needless to say Marian Tee manages to combine scorching romance with comedy perfectly, what threw me was how she managed to add an event that is devastating to so many women in such a way it doesn't detract from the fantastic storyline.What really got me was the lengths that Staffan ended up going to to get Saffi back.How Not to be Seduced by DukesThis is the first part of the last of the Pussketeers stories. This is all about Rathe and Mary. This for me was completely different to all of Marian Tee's stories but in a good way. The characters in here are the same but different at the same time. Your probably wondering what on earth I mean!! I mean that unlike a lot of Marian's other characters these two both have a really horrible past. Mary more so but it is the mental scars from how Rathe viewed his parents relationship that has him balking at the fact that there is a 16 year difference between him and Mary.This confronts some contentious issues with Mary and her stepfather, you can probably guess. This is a great start to what promises to be yet another fantastic story to Marian Tee's library.How Not to Marry a BillionaireThis is the novella for Yanna and Constantijin. This is their big HEA, the clue is in the title. In true Yanna and Constantijin fashion it is not easy to get Yanna down the aisle, she was undecided about their relationship so getting her down the aisle was always going to be eventful. With Mr Fix It at the ceremony too Constantijin's jealousy was always going to cause an . . .interesting scene, and in front of Yanna's parents too!!!!!Please note I was provided a copy of this box set in exchange for an honest review.