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Review of Phobia by Keri Lake

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Synopsis:
This is a standalone follow up novella to Nocticadia in which the siblings of the original respective couple meet, and what ensues is… curiosity, chaos, and understanding.

Review:
I wasn’t sure if I was going to like this book at all, because honestly, it felt like Bee had a lot of problems and I wasn’t sure that I would care about seeing her star in something. It seemed that Lilia was always covering for her and trying to keep her on the up and up, but Bee was clearly disturbed. Because of that, when she ends up in a rather dangerous situation, she finds herself understanding “Mr. Caed” more than one might expect.

I wasn’t really as big of a fan of this novel, in part because despite having gone through quite a lot of tribulations before the beginning of the novel, Bee is still very young and because of that naïve. If you loved Nocticadia this may allow you a bit more of a release from the stranglehold the first novel casts, but they are not at all the same type of book; in the word’s of Keri Lake, “The setting and tone of this short story is a complete departure from Nocticadia, and echoes my gritty contemporary books.”

Star rating: ✯✯✯✯

Review of Hunted: A Stepbrother Romance Novel by Olivia Long and Olivia Hawthorne

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Hunted: A Stepbrother Romance Novel
By Olivia Long and Olivia Hawthorne

Star Rating: 

Genre: Romance
Number of Pages: 196

Date Started: June 16, 2016
Date Finished: June 16, 2016

Synopsis:(From Amazon)30333481
Chloe has to watch Chase sleep his way through hundreds of women while she secretly harbors her crush on the hot ex-Marine. She could never have him, so why can’t she just move on?

Chase can run away from the truth all he wants, but when the rest of the world is telling him he can’t have the one woman he has ever truly wanted, that’s all he can think about now. He’ll break all the rules just to get what he wants.

But now he is on the run from his long time enemy, and when he learns that Chloe is also in danger, all hell breaks loose. Can he save her before it’s too late? And can he make the world accept their love?

*Filled to the brim with angst, drama, and dirty sex, so please don’t read if you’re not into hot bad boys and steamy scenes that will curl your toes and make you want to take a shower.

Review:
I briefly remember thinking there was something about this book that bothered me in the beginning… and I quickly forgot as I continued reading what is a very well done romance.  This story isn’t just a case of longing, it isn’t the taboo stuff that everyone thinks of, that they grew up as kids and then decided they wanted each other.  Chase and Chloe met when they were both in their late teens, and as such, found themselves caring a bit too much for people whose parents were dating.  Their parents were given ample page time, and helped drive the plot in their push for Chase and Chloe to spend more time together as family.

Chase’s past was well thought out, well written, and expertly tied together his absence from the family life as well as his current predicament.  Chloe’s age and inexperience also played a large part in why, as adults, they were still thrown together by their parents.

As for the romance– in the beginning, it was very good, steamy, taboo– perfect.  As the rising action got higher and higher, the intimacy continued to be juicy, but jarring, because the situation in which Chase and Chloe find themselves calls for diligence, and rolling around in the sheets is the opposite of what they should be doing.

Looking for more steamy stepbrother romance?  I found Stepbrother Dearest tantalizing, juicy, and taboo.  See my review here, and the Amazon link for the book here.

Author Bio: (From Amazon)
What Amazon tells me of Olivia Long and Olivia Thorne is that they are the same person, and that’s it.