4 Smooches!
Synopsis
One date with the sexier-than-sin Detective Drake Nash. Simple.
Until you take into account that my brother finally proposed to his girlfriend, so Nonna is on a warpath—and the crazy old bat has Cupid by the balls.
The upcoming mayoral elections has everyone running on full speed, and while I couldn’t give any less craps about the corrupt Holly Woods mayor’s office, a dead body in the middle of a campaign speech has me thrown right into the middle of it. The victim is close to the mayor, but all he cares about is minimizing the damage to his campaign, so he hires me to work alongside Drake to close the case as quickly as possible.
Bad news for our tentative relationship.
We disagree far more than we agree, but being at loggerheads won’t get this murder solved… Or deal with the arrival of someone from his past.
The mysteries behind the murder aren’t the only things unraveling, and despite being knee-deep in lies and corruption and bonds so tangled they’re almost indecipherable, I have to figure out if I’m willing to fight for Drake the way I do justice…
Or if he’ll be my one who gets away.
Review
There are a good many reasons why I am digging The Hollywood Files books by Emma Hart. We will get to all of those amazing reasons in a minute but first I want to touch on how each book works. Each book is a mystery to be solved and also it looks like in each book Noelle lets her wall down a little more to allow, the fantastically alpha, Drake inside just a smidgen more; which I happen to greatly enjoy! So each book has it’s complete own little mystery that is solved at the end and the romantic aspect continues to progress from one book to the next and you also get to know Noelle’s family more and more which is just completely wackadoodle.
Which brings us to my very favorite thing about this book! It is funny as hell! I mean all of Emma’s books are funny because her heroines are usually super snarky and sassy but these really take the cake as far as funny Emma Hart goes. The dialogue is laugh out loud hilarious and so are the inner workings of Noelle’s mind. I just love her to pieces!
Sweet baby Jesus on horseback!
OK, so Noelle and the funny are only half the reasons I love this series. Another huge reason is Detective Drake Nash. The man is smoking hot and so alphalicous. Seriously, he gets way mean sometimes and I faareaking love it! But he makes up for it with plenty of sweet. Swoon, ladies, swoon!
Drake Nash is a walking, talking, highly irritating, spectacular kissing machine.
Oh and he can dirty talk like a beast! I just love him!
I think he has my clitoris on speed dial.
Yep, I love me some Drake, but I also love Noelle’s family. Her brothers and their bantering and sweetness, her grandmother who is as looney as a bed bug. Her sweet and protective dad. The whole thing is stinking adorable and ridiculous and cute and funny.
“Holy shit. Is your family secretly the inspiration behind Jersey Shore?”
So, you have this wonderful family bond, a sexy romance, so many laughs, and then you throw in a heck of a mystery and I am sold. This is a great series and I am really glad that it is not over yet. I am ready to solve my next mystery and have some more alone time with Mr. Drake Nash! Another great book from Emma Hart!
~Amie
