5 Smooches!

Synopsis

TRUST – verb: to believe in the reliability, truth, or strength of another.

Up until now, Logan Mitchell has never had much of a reason to trust anyone.
Having struggled with a self-identity crisis throughout college, he’s spent the years since then creating a sophisticated facade to present to the world.
It’s an armor he thought was impenetrable—until he met Tate Morrison.
The gorgeous, headstrong bartender he’d sat across from only months ago has taken a tight hold of his heart, and Logan is discovering that it’s time to let go. 
It’s time to let someone inside.

After years of placing his dreams on hold for his family, Tate has finally chosen to do what makes him happy and follow his heart. 
The one thing he never would’ve imagined was that it would lead him into the arms of a man—and not just any man—the striking, never-takes-no-for-an-answer Logan Mitchell.
Tate has fallen hard, and as his world is turned on its axis and they move forward together, he finds his life becoming more entwined with the confident, successful lawyer.

Even though neither man expected the other, it’s time to trust in their relationship—but not everything comes so easily…

Review

If you have read the first two books in the Temptation Series, then I know without a doubt that you have been on pins and needles for Trust.  I know I have.  I missed Logan and Tate immensely, they are my most favorite m/m couple after all.

Trust picks right up where Take leaves off.  Ohh, the drama.  Trust is loaded with quite a good bit of it right off the bat.  You have Logan’s crazy ex trying to worm his way back in, Tate’s family issues to deal with, and Tate and Logan’s impending future ahead;  all kinds of big decisions about their lives together.  Throw in something really really tragic and ohhhh, my boys made me cry.

“I dare you to try.”

“Talk about coming full circle.”

But just because the conclusion of Tate and Logan’s story was full of angst doesn’t mean that it was not sexy as hell.  Because it absolutely was.  After all, who writes m/m sexy time better than Ella Frank?  That’s right, NO ONE!  It was even more seductive this time with a bit of role playing and even more kink added in.  Good lord, Logan.  Whew!

“You like that idea, don’t you?  Watching us fuck?”

Don’t worry though, because Tate really comes into his own in this book.  He really starts to truly accept his love for Logan even if it is something he never imagined for himself.  He was totally swoon worthy and so bossy at times.  EEP!

“Tonight, your ass is mine.”

As usual Ella’s writing is phenomenal.  I am not usually a fan of romance in third person but it has absolutely never bothered me with her books.  Her characters and writing just draw you in.  Tate and Logan’s story is epic, sweet, and sexy.  The conclusion to this tale is absolutely amazing and I enjoyed every minute of it.  I feel bad for any author I read writing m/m that I read after this series.  Tate and Logan are a damn hard act to follow.

“No one else would ever do.  You totally get me.”

~Amie

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4 Smooches!

Synopsis

My name is Logan Steele. I’m devilishly handsome, seriously ripped, well hung, charismatic and highly sexed. Women just can’t resist me. So when I lost my job in the construction industry and was struggling for cash, I decided to put my assets to good use.

By day I’m a private personal fitness trainer. By night I’m a high class escort.

Tell me your fantasy, I’ll fulfil it ~ So, who do you want me to be?”

Virgin for the Night

My next client is aspiring actress Summer Beresford, whose brief for the evening is that she wants to be treated as if she’s a virgin, to be seduced and wooed. I’d already felt conflicted when I’d received her booking form detailing her scenario, as a rule I didn’t do tender gentle love making, women booked me because of my reputation for fucking, hard. To compound my dilemma, I couldn’t stop looking at her damn photograph and had even used an image of her in my mind to get hard and come with another client. Not only was that highly unprofessional of me, it was potentially hazardous to my reputation in case I groaned the wrong woman’s name. I was already treading that very fine line between professional and personal. Before I’d even met the damn woman she had me breaking one of my cardinal rules, Never fall for one of your clients. The more I looked at her photo though, the more I wanted her.

Summer Beresford, I’m about to woo your arse off and have my own virginal experience, making love for the first time. 

Review

In the second book of this novella series we once again follow Logan; the hot, sexy, confident male escort but this time he has a night planned for Summer; the woman who already had him obsessed before he even met her. Will they both be able to keep it to just one night of sex or will they both start to feel something deeper?

“I couldn’t turn her away, I had to have her, to know if she tasted as sweet as she smelled, to know if she’d feel as good as I was imagining when I fucked her. It was only for the night.”

I enjoyed this story as I enjoyed the other one before it. It’s short but it’s hot, sexy and has a story line that keeps developing with each book. I was excited to meet Sunmer; the woman who has already captured Logan’s attention more than any other woman has and I loved getting back to Logan; he is beyond hot, he talks dirty perfectly and in this story we start to see a softer, kinder side of him.

“However hot Logan looked in his pictures, was nothing compared to the man in person. He just exuded confidence, masculinity and raw sex appeal, no wonder he came so highly recommended. When he smiled I almost felt as if I was going to faint and swayed on my feet. O shit Summer, he’s going to eat you alive.”

These books are really short so you can’t expect too much; the story is developing as you read each book but you still move forward in terms of getting to know Logan better and seeing the beginning of Logan and Summer’s relationship. The sex was once again off the charts, I love the dirty talk and how it seems each novella is going to look into different fantasises.

“I’d had so much sex over the years, especially the last four, some downright kinky, but nothing, nothing compared to the way my mind and body felt with Summer beneath me.”

My only worry is that this could get a little repetitive. If we keep following Logan as he attends different woman for their night of hot sex I can see myself maybe getting a little tired of the same thing? But I am hoping what we will see in the next few novellas is Logan and Summer’s relationship and how or even if they come together and the dramas that will unfold!

~Bethany

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4.5 Smooches

Synopsis

Strong. Arrogant. Hard. 
Ryder Cole is the King of Atlanta’s nightlife — and the one man who can erase my past.

I’m running from secrets that could destroy me and there’s no room in my life for someone like him: too damn cocky, and sexy as hell. I should keep my distance, but smart goes out the window the minute he looks my way. And when he puts his hands on me … A girl could forget her own name.

But what happens when the past catches up with me, and all the things I’m hiding from tear our lives apart again? I can’t keep running forever, and Ryder always wins.

He’s not the kind of guy to let me go gently, Ryder will give it to me Hard.

Review

I love getting excited over a brand spanking new series and that is exactly what I am over Eve Jagger’s Sexy Bastard series and what a feakin’ fantastic title. The first book Hard, sees nightclub and underground fight club entrepreneur Ryder Cole clash with Cassie McEntire over her brothers unsettled debts towards Ryder, a problem that is soon rectified by Cassie offering to work as the accountant for Ryder’s nightclub business but that is also more complicated as the sexual tension and innuendo flares between the two.

The initial surprise meeting between Ryder and Cassie was crafted to perfection, it was downright hilarious and executed to its full potential and what made it such a great comedic element was Eve’s use of snappy dialogue between her characters, the bantering and one-up-manship, trying to verbally trounce the other as well as communicate the simmering heat and attraction between the two sparring leads and this is something that is consistently entertaining the whole way through the book. It makes great use of that old adage that there’s a fine line between love and hate.

‘He approaches, bends toward me, putting his hands on either side of my hips. “Promise me one more thing.” he says. His lips almost brush my ear, the proximity a tease, like a ghost of a kiss. “That the next time you try to suffocate me, you’ll use your thighs instead of a pillow. It’s be a much more pleasant experience for us both.”

Ryder is utterly flawless. Even when he’s being an arse and saying the wrong thing you just know that wasn’t how he intended it to sound and when he admits he’s wrong the man knows how to apologise, there’s no dragging out the misunderstanding for longer than necessary. He’s gorgeous, fairly humble for being so filthy rich and he has a terrific dry sense of humour. I need Ryder off the page and in my life NOW please. Cassie is the type of female protagonist I love to read about, she has a serious amount of sass, sarcasm and spirit in her but has an abundance of compassion and loyalty especially when it comes to family. Eve Jagger managed to take a fantastic flirty and fun story and add an element of danger and realism to it to in the form of domestic abuse, something she accomplishes with sensitivity and aplomb and what makes Cassie an even more heroic figure in my eyes is the fact that she never concedes or admits defeat when threatened, she’s strong and just the type of girl you could be friends with in real life.

Hard is the start of a brilliant new series and I cannot wait to get my hands on the next bachelor! The writing flows with fun and drama in equal measure bringing in side characters to the fold and creating a fantastic group dynamic between the girls and the boys and paving the way for further stories. The only small problem I had was the abrupt ending. I feel like it needed an extra chapter or an epilogue to tie up all the loose ends for Ryder and Cassie’s happily ever after.

~Nicole

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