Book Review: Double Take

Author: Leslie Kelly
Title: Double Take
Publisher: Harlequin Blaze
Publish Date: April 15, 2014
Buy: Amazon

Review Copy Provided By: Net Galley
Book Blurb: 

Getting under her skin…

When her research about orgasms goes viral, sex therapist Lindsey Smith needs a place to lie low. Substitute teaching on Wild Boar Island, Michigan, promises not only privacy, but an opportunity to not think about sex. Which, thanks to the town's too-tasty police chief, lasts exactly one second.

After the dangerous streets of Chicago, Mike Santori figured the island was a safe, sane place to settle down. Getting hot for the new teacher wasn't in the plan. Especially when he discovers that Lindsey is more than she claims to be. Mike decides to use every sexy trick in the book to strip Lindsey of her defenses and reveal all of her secrets. It's a wickedly sensuous journey, one that pushes both of them beyond their limits…to the heart of their desires.

Review: Leslie Kelly has always been on my list of favorite writers for the Blaze line. Her stories have plot as well as hot steamy sexy.

The best part is, the sex doesn't take up the whole story. In fact, in Double Take, Lindsey and Mike don't get it going on until halfway through the book!

Keep the two of them out of bed gave you time to get to know both characters and it really gave you time to fall for Mike. I mean, why aren't there real guys out there like him? And why can't I find one? Oh yes, this is  romance novel and these kinds of guys don't exist.

Drat!

Because Mike is one awesome guy. He's kind, smart, sweet, funny. I mean the scene when he finds some of her work related "toys" was priceless. I laughed out loud.

There aren't many authors that can make me laugh, especially romance writers, Leslie is one of them, the other is Stephanie Bond.

Oh and back to the work related toys, which are "sex toys" because Leslie is a sex therapist that is just a little bit infamous for some research she did. That research is part of the reason she's staying on the island for a few months. Ah, Thinkgasms.  I won't explain, you'll just have to read it to find out.

I also loved the small town mentality going on in Wild Boar. However some of the ultra-conservative views you see with certain townspeople make you think you are in the south and not on an island in Michigan.

This was a super, fun read. (Great for the poolside, if you have one)

Rating: 5 flowers

Book Review: More Blazing Bedtime Stories

More Blazing Bedtime Stories will have readers taking a cold shower before heading to bed. Julie Leto and Leslie Kelly have created two stories that are part fairy tale and part paranormal erotica.

Into the Woods is the story of a fairy godmother that wants to get out of the fairy godmother business and with good reason. As a fairy godmother Tatiana has to match up princesses and princes but she can never get a match for herself. That's why she takes things into her own hand crossing into the real world.

Tatiana and Jack St Cloud have unbelievable chemistry and his sister is the key to her gaining her freedom.

This story really was a hot and spicy read. It didn't take Tatiana very long to get busy with Jack and some of the scenes between the two are actually beyond steamy, but what really makes the story work, is that you really feel bad for Tatiana, who has spent 400 years granting wishes, but she never got her own wish granted.

Then there's One Upon A Mattress, by Leslie Kelly. A rather wicked queen is looking for a match for her son and enlists the help of a werewolf to find the missing princess. The only problem is, werewolves mate for life and the werewolf just happened to fall madly in lust with Princess Penelope who has more piercings and tattoos than any sensible princess would have.

I personally had a hard time wrapping my mind around the goth girl princess thing, but that didn't make the story any less enjoyable. I just spent a lot of time wondering why Penelope did the things she did, in her quest for answers about her family, but again...WOW! The scenes with Lucas in the bedroom were really hot.

This book gets five glasses of ice water!