BOOK REVIEW - FATAL AFFAIR by MARIE FORCE - FATAL # 1 - CARINA PRESS - ADULT SUSPENSE ROMANCE

By: Marie Force

Published By: Carina Press

Released : Available Now

Details: Kindle purchase, 294 Pages

RATING: 4.5 NICK AND FREDDIE STARS!

Blurb: Goodreads

Washington, D.C., Metro Police Detective Sergeant Sam Holland needs a big win to salvage her career--and her confidence--after a disastrous investigation. The perfect opportunity arises when Senator John O'Connor is found brutally murdered in his bed, and Sam is assigned to the case. Matters get complicated when Sam has to team up with Nick Cappuano, O'Connor's friend and chief of staff...and the man Sam had a memorable one-night stand with years earlier. Their sexual chemistry still sizzles, and Sam has to fight to stay focused on the case. Sleeping with a material witness is another mistake she can't afford--especially when the bodies keep piling up.

BOOK REVIEW by Michelle:

This was a great start to this series. Straight off I know Sergeant Sam Holland is one tough, intelligent woman and I liked her.

Nick Cappuano is the sexy man behind Senator John O’Connor. I can’t help giggling at the Senator’s name because it sounds so action/blockbuster movie, like Bruce Willis', John McClane in Die Hard.

Unfortunately for John O’Connor...things didn’t go well.

Sam and Nick have a past. A one night stand you can read about in One Night With You. Fast forward six years and Detective Sergeant Sam Holland needs to get her profile back on track, due to reasons, and she is handed the Senator’s case.

Enter Nick Cappuano...again. He is John's best friend and pretty much family member to the O'Connor's. I liked how much was revealed to us about Nick in this first installment. Sometimes, to me, Sam felt like a much stronger person compared to Nick. This may have come across this way to me due to what has gone on in Nick's life. I really am looking forward to knowing him more in future installments.

The sub characters were a really great asset to this story, even the ones thrown onto the usual suspects list. 

Who makes it out alive?

Freddie Cruz, Sam’s partner and gorgeous sidekick is a character I simply love. I want much more Freddie in future books. 

Sam and Freddie get down to working the case, while Nick tries to win back Sam along the way. 

I really like Skip Holland, Sam’s father. Marie gave him a great role in this book, she gave him his dignity.

I was totally bamboozled for two thirds of the book as to the, who-dunn-it. As the reader we are thrown so many decoys. When Sam kept telling the reader a direction her thoughts were going in ... that is when I knew it wasn’t the direction. It was process of elimination that filled a great portion of the story line and some awesome smexy times filled others. But, I did enjoy the variety of usual suspects because so many authors don't give you a line up. My brain was working overtime trying to work it out, but then it became all too clear. 

Annnd, that is okay. I enjoyed watching Sam and Freddie work the room.

Visually I saw this book play out clearly and at times with gory colour. Crime and vengeance are never pretty.

I look forward to reading Fatal Justice up next and seeing what Sam and Nick get up to.

Michelle

BOOK REVIEW - HIS ROOMMATE'S PLEASURE by LANA MCGREGOR - CARINA PRESS - 4.5 JOSH & ADAM STARS

By: Lana McGregor

Published By: Carina Press

Released: 1st JULY 2013

Details: Digital, 83 Pages

Via NetGalley

RATING: 4.5 JOSH & ADAM STARS!

Blurb: Goodreads

It started with an accidental click…but where will it end?

Desperate to turn in a paper, Adam borrows his roommate's computer and mistakenly opens a folder that contains Josh's collection of porn. Adam had no idea that his jock roommate was gay—and into leashes, paddles and domination. And Adam, an inexperienced virgin who's only ever kissed one guy, is surprised to find himself curious about submitting…

Josh can't believe that his roommate discovered his spank bank—and he can't believe that Adam is so turned on by the thought of giving up control to someone. Taking a chance, he offers to look through the photos with Adam…and maybe try acting some of them out.

Night after night, the boys delve into their darkest fantasies of domination and submission. And as lust and experimentation grow into the promise of something deeper, Adam must decide if he's brave enough to tell Josh how he feels.

BOOK REVIEW by Michelle:

I am pretty fearless now with what I pick up as a blogger to read and review. It wasn’t that long ago that I was a very YA reader, of an adult age.

J.R. Ward showed us more conservative readers ( muah) how to write M/M with her lads Qhuinn and Blay in Lover At Last ...and we liked it! Now if you are over on NOTR After Dark’s site reading this review or any of the other reviews on here, you know this is the place for the steamier reads to be reviewed. If you are a younger chicken , you shouldn’t be over here.

Josh and Adam are the roommates at College in this story. Adam’s got an assignment due and his computer is packing up so he hops onto Josh the Jock’s computer to submit his assignment and gets a bit more than he bargained for.

Adam is openly gay, his parents know, his friends know.

Josh isn’t openly gay, but Josh knows what he likes.

But this is not a story about Josh coming out.

This is a story about two guys who had been roommates for six months, discovering there was a bit more to each other. Going from two guys who didn’t even talk, didn’t think they had anything in common.....to!!!!!

I thought this was a well written , novella sized read. It is only 83 pages, a quick read, but it packs a punch.

This is a story with BDSM in it and I think it was a great read. You will watch Josh and Adam get braver with each other in what they want from each other and what they desire. This is very much a self discovery journey for Adam.

Michelle