(read: 25/Oct/11)
Let it Ride & Afterburn
Prod dets
Uniformaly hot. 2 books in 1
Pub: 2009, Harlequin
Author: Jillian Burns & Kira Sinclair
Cat: romance
Format: Blaze trade paperback; story 1:
213 pp w/ 16 chapters, story 2: 211pp w/16 chapts
Whose: Jordan & Cole. Chase &
Rina
Age Range: Adult
[Came off someone else’s shelf]
Synopsis
Let It Ride
Working in a Vegas casino, Jordan
Brenner took her bets off the sex table ages ago. Until, Major Cole Jackson
sends Jordan’s thoughts and hormones into wicked places. What Jordan doesn’t
know is that Cole made a deal with his buddies: get some hot-‘n’-heavy action,
or pay up! But Cole doesn’t need an incentive. Every time he looks at Jordan’s
lips, he’s immediately aware that something is up—and it isn’t his ante!
Afterburn
Before he shipped out, Chase and
Rina enjoyed a sizzling night in Vegas, topping it off with a tacky mock
wedding. Or so they thought... Because when Chase comes home, he learns that
he’s very legally hitched to the feisty captain! Their mistaken marriage is
strictly against Air Force rules. There’ll be hell to pay if it’s discovered. But
the martial benefits are so very, very good...
my Thoughts (review)
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These were my first contemporary
romances I have ever read. Even though I thought that they were boring, in a
way that all of you would if you read something like this after years and years
of nothing but paranormal romances. There is just so little going on in these
books that it’s almost not worth reading it.
Book one (may as well go this way)
was my fav of both the books, and also the less complex’s and yet it fit, or
maybe more so worked for me. I loved it, the characters—Cole and Jordan where
so right for each other and yet you could see why it wouldn’t work. As well as
all the reason that it cool and it made for a great read in how he figured all
this out and changed his life (being that he’s was the only one that need it)
to make his life truly happy, and at the end of it all isn’t it about
happiness?
I liked the way they came together,
the reason for it, the fact that even though she was falling so deeply for him
she knew all the reason that it wouldn’t work out. All the reason that she need
to stay strong and live. She couldn’t
follow him where he was going to go, and for some really great reason’s.
This was one of those books that
would work so well on any level, and it wasn’t until book two that I really got
bored of the thing.
Okay, so onto book 2. This book was
about two people that came together and separated (because of their jobs), came
together, left—came together again. This book bored me for the fact that I’m
not into the whole, ‘job first’ mentality, i believe that happiness comes there
first and then life, work is just something that’s needed for you to have success
at the first two. So this one wasn’t for me.
I also found that it was odd, too
many different personalities for the woman, that weren’t filled in probably I
found that she was a little 2D even though she had multiple sides and the ‘bad
guy’ in this one was the highlight, though only because he was the only one
with real emotions. Ones that you could relate to, or may understand more, because
of its relevance.
I found that this book dragged on;
there wasn’t anything in it that made me hold on. Made me want to read it. There
wasn’t anything that got me tingly, or could give a good daydream, it was a
very flat tale of nothing more than two people who were meant to be together if
only she could see it. Which was kind of the problem, she could see it too,
right from the beginning and even when her job couldn’t stand in her minds way,
something else did that made even little sense.
It wasn’t the story for me in any
way, though I don’t believe that it was a waste to read the book, only that it
held nothing in it that made you feel with it, and if anything that’s what you
need from a romance that has nothing other than two people falling in love.
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