Bravo Family Ties

121. From Here To Paternity (Bravo Family, 19, Bravo Family Ties, 6) – Christine Rimmer, Silhouette Special Edition #1825, May 2007, ISBN: 9780373248254, 242p.

Featuring: Brand Bravo and Charlene Cooper

120. Married in Haste (Bravo Family, 18, Bravo Family Ties, 5) – Christine Rimmer, Silhouette Special Edition #1777, September 2006, ISBN: 9780373247776, 243p.

Featuring: Brett Bravo and Angie Dellazola

119. The Bravo Family Way (Bravo Family, 17, Bravo Family Ties, 4) – Christine Rimmer, Silhouette Special Edition #1741, March 2006, ISBN: 0373247419, 249p.

Featuring: Cleopatra (Cleo) Bliss and Fletcher Bravo

What happens when the boy you love issues an ultimatum, choose your family or choose me?  Can young lovers find their way back to one another after ten years, especially when there is now a 9 year old child in the picture?

     Until I find some of the older Bravo Family Ties books, or the next new one in the line-up is released, I'll be putting the Bravos aside for awile.  But oh, I do love Rimmer's Bravos!  I'm especially looking forward to Tanner's, Kelly and Hayley's big brother ~ story (could it be Crystal in his future?) and Bowie... will he and Glory, at long last, make a family for their son.  I'm very curious to see how Bowie does his growing up!
     I've loved the time spent reading these stories and will be impatiently awaiting meeting up with them again.

RATING:
Excellence: Great to Very Good ~ 3 stars
Steaminess: Sensual

   This was one of my two newly bought Bravo Family Ties books from the Silhouette Special Edition subscription that I had.  I'm not really sure just how I came to be collecting books from this saga, especially before I had a clue what the Bravos were all about, but I truly believe that this was serendipitous!   The deeper that I go into this saga, the more I appreciate just what Christine Rimmer has created.  A whole cast of characters that come alive in the pages of the books.  So far there are 21 published and after the next book in the series, that I have, there are only two more of Blake Bravo's sons waiting for their loves.  I can hardly wait! 
Will there be more to come after Tanner and Bowie both have their own stories?  Well, as things stand now, I dearly hope so!

RATING:
Excellence: Great to Excellent ~ 3.5 stars
Steaminess: Sensual

     From one of the previous stories ~ Bravo Unwrapped ~ we saw that both Buck, the oldest, and Bowie, the youngest, are the wild Bravo boys in New Bethlehem Flat.  Both middle boys, Brett, a doctor and Brand, a lawyer, have striven to be the antithesis of their father as well as remain the calm, level-headed Bravo boys.  Well, that's their intent!  As to Brand, I can't really say if he's successful, but Brett was sure that he was as far from the wild personality of his father and oldest and youngest brothers as can be... until he found himself married to the girl next door ~ and falling head over heels in love with her.  Definitely NOT in his plans! 

RATING:
Excellence: Excellent ~ 4 stars
Steaminess: Sensual

     When I read this book, I really had no idea where Fletcher came into the large Bravo family, but finding a link to a definitive Bravo Family tree ~ especially including Blake Bravo's rather numerous, and often confusing, children ~ on Christine's site was heady stuff.  I love being able to place everyone where they belong... and it just makes, for me, the stories flow that much better.  'Sides it was a lot of fun figuring out the whole fam-damily.   I'm a bit of a dweeb, but I'm an organizational dweeb that likes my I's dotted, my T's crossed and every piece in it's proper place! 
    I've also noticed, as the saga progresses, that the steaminess levels definitely increas after the first few books... good one!

RATING:
Excellence: Great to Very Good ~ 3.0 stars
Steaminess: Sensual

     I am deplorably behind on my reviews, so I will do my best to both catch up and to write complete reviews. 
     On the back of the book, a Signature Select new release, it says:
     A New Chapter in the SAGA of the Characters You Love 
and, yep, it is.  Man, that bad-boy, black-sheep Blake Bravo spread his "love" around!  With six different women that he "married" he had 14 children; all but two were boys.  Another excellent chapter in the Bravo saga:  Man, Blake may have been scum of the earth, but the women that he picked musta had some fantastic genes, 'cause the kids all turned out as decent people!  This is the seventh of one of Blake Bravo's offspring to have their story. 
 

RATING:
Excellence:  Great to Very Good ~ 3.5 stars
Steaminess: Sensual

     I had actually started to read this book before I figured that I should check my Bravo books that I had with their place in the series.  That's when I realized that I had a number of books that came first ~ and far be it for me to not start as close to the beginning as I can... well, when I've got the books anyways!  This is Starr's story and both Starr and Beau played fairly big parts in Zach's story... the third of the three original stories.  Glad to finally get to it!
In the slot for 'book read' I put that this is either the 14th or 15th book in the series.  The reason that I'm not sure of which it is is because the story after The Bravo Billionaire, was an eHarlequin online read; of which I can, alas, find no trace.    So that leaves me either counting it as the ninth or disregarding it entirely.  Ah well... maybe if I make enough noise, someone'll take pity on me? *grin* 

RATING:
Excellent to Outstanding ~ 4.5 stars
Sensual