DNF Review: SLOW HEAT (Loveswept) Mass Market Paperback

I've finished "Slow Heat" by Erica Spindler.

Jack Jacob thrived on excitement, thrilled to a challenge, and always played to win, so when the sexy TV film critic was teamed with Jill Lansing, he expected fireworks. Five years before, they'd been wildly, recklessly in love, but he couldn't give her what she needed. Now she needed a hero, a man who'd share his soul. Original.

About the Author

A New York Times and International bestselling author, Erica Spindler's skill for crafting engrossing plots and compelling characters has earned both critical praise and legions of fans. Published in 25 countries, her stories have been lauded as "thrill-packed page turners, white- knuckle rides and edge-of-your-seat whodunits."

Raised in Rockford, Illinois, Erica had planned on being an artist, earning a BFA from Delta State University and an MFA from the University of New Orleans in the visual arts. In June of 1982, in bed with a cold, she picked up a romance novel for relief from daytime television. She was immediately hooked, and soon decided to try to write one herself. She leaped from romance to suspense in 1996 with her novel Forbidden Fruit, and found her true calling.

Her novel Bone Cold won the prestigious Daphne du Maurier Award for excellence. A Romance Writers of America Honor Roll member, she received a Kiss of Death Award for her novels Forbidden Fruit and Dead Run and was a three-time RITA Award finalist. Publishers Weekly awarded the audio version of her novel Shocking Pink a Listen Up Award, naming it one of the best audio mystery books of 1998.

Erica lives just outside New Orleans, Louisiana, with her husband and two sons and is busy at work on her next thriller.

Product Details
Series: Loveswept
Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Loveswept (April 1, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0553445162
ISBN-13: 978-0553445169

My Review:

This book is so bad I couldn't even get passed the first few chapters.  Bad character development and all they needed was to talk to each other.

DNF

1/5

RS Review: Slow Heat (The Bounty Hunters) [Mass Market Paperback]

I've finished "Slow Heat" the 5th book in her Bounty Hunter series by Lorie O'Clare.

Product Description

Slow Heat

Lorie O'Clare

As a new trainee at the King family’s bounty-hunting agency, Micah Jones is trying to keep his cool. But his latest assignment — to bring in a night-club owner suspected of money-laundering — heats up fast when he meets the “brains” of the outfit: an irresistibly beautiful bookkeeper who’s resisting arrest. So Micah takes her into custody — by taking her into his powerful arms and not letting go.

Held for questioning but released by police, Maggie O’Malley is still a person of interest — to Micah. And Maggie is interested, too — in his services. With his iron-hard muscles and tough-guy exterior, the Harley-riding bounty hunter is just the man Maggie needs to track down the real crook at the club. A slow-burning attraction ignites a firestorm of insatiable desire — until the secrets of Micah’s past are exposed. Explosive passion now must prove stronger than a history so terrifying it might haunt them forever.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; 1 edition (November 27, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312534604
ISBN-13: 978-0312534608

My Review:

Micah Jones is a new trainee at the King's family bounty-hunting agency.  His latest assignment is to bring in the night-club owner suspected of laundering money but when he meets the brainy and beautiful bookkeeper who resists arrest he almost loses his cool.  He takes her into custody and also into his arms and decides he doesn't want to let her go.

Maggie O'Mallery is questioned by the police but they let her go because they don't have any evidence against her.  Maggie hires Micah to track down the real culprit at the club.  A smoldering hot attraction ignites between them that turns into a smoking hot love affair.  Then a secret from Micah's past is discovered and exploited.

Micah is definitely a bad boy who has changed his ways at the end.  He is a wild man with a kinky quirk in the bedroom (Oh Boy one of the love scenes was very kicky and hot at the same time).  Maggie was able to handle herself with the big boys and was able to keep up with them.

4/5

Thanks Simon and Schuster Canada for sending me this book to review, greatly appreciated!

Books in series:

1.  Play Dirty
2.  Get Lucky
3.  Stay Hungry
4.  Run Wild
5.  Slow Heat
6.  Hot Pursuit - March 26, 2013

Slow Heat (Berkley Sensation) [Paperback]

I've finished "Slow Heat" the 2nd book in her baseball series by Jill Shavis.

Product Description

A great catch-from the USA Today bestselling author of Double Play

Baseball player Wade O'Riley's bad-boy image is about to be cleaned up by publicist Samantha McNead. But the sexual tension between them is about to drive Wade to his knees.

Product Details
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Berkley; Original edition (February 2, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0425233669
ISBN-13: 978-0425233665

My Review:

I did like Wade because he wants Samantha and hasn't forgotten their one night of passion!

I didn't like Samantha that much because she's so stand-offish and I wish she would loosen up!

3/5