friends

My Review:

Great friends-to-lovers story!  Very light and warm, loving, friendly.  I love that the hero wants a family and has been hoping to find the right woman for five years.  The hero/heroine are friends and he's her boss.  I liked how he couldn't help but smile and be happy when she got the positive pregnancy test result.  The book has a lot of comedy to it, and I really liked that.  It was cute how the hero calls his future sister-in-law "pork chop" and she calls the hero "sugar lump".  I thought it was hilarious that coming from an ultra Catholic family the sister says her new special someone is an atheist and a woman.  The epilogue made me laugh and just GRIN... it's 11 years after their marriage and they do a run down of all the times the heroine got pregnant with each child.  Hilarious.  Really warm read, I loved this couple and they have such a happy life together. 

My Rating: 4.5/5 stars, really really good book.  It's rare that I mark a SD a KEEPER, but I'm going to label this one.  It's a really great light and funny book.  Must read. 

(that means you Margie, LOL!) 

NFM

Sheyna Simmons and Jace Beaumont have been friends forever and they work together too – Sheyna works for Jace's family's hotel chain as a human resources manager or something. But ever since Sheyna dressed up as a French Maid to clean Jace's windows as the result of a bet, they've been a little too aware of each other for comfort.

Favourite Scene: (she's ovulating and called him over to have sex)

"Did you run all the way here?"
"The Jeep was blocked in by a delivery truck. I thought it would be faster on foot. Did I miss it?"
"Miss what?"
"Your egg. Is it too late?"
"Oh, I guess I should have explained, my egg is good for at least twenty-four hours after the hormone surge. Sometimes even longer."
"That would have been nice to know."  

My Review:

Aw, the cover is cute, the hero is a cute blond and the H/h are embracing and their image is reflecting in a mirror.  I adore friends-to-lovers stories, and this was a great one!  She wants a baby, and he volunteers to be the father.  They start out having sex for the sake of conception, he wants to make it good for her, from the start there's more to this than just sex.  They love each other from page 1, they just haven't yet admitted to themselves it's the "in love" kind of love too.  They both have issues with their unconventional/bad family lives.  When her building has a fire, she stays at his place and intimacy grows.  The love and passion is so strong, the characters are real, even the secondary characters are lovely.  Every time she calls the hero to tell him she's ovulating... he RUNS home and it's adorable how he drops everything.  The ending was sweet, they resolved their family issues and showed how much they know and love each other. 

Rating: 4/5 stars, great friends-to-lovers story!  NFM

I loved this book.  Maggie is, in my opinion, a likeable and believable character who has some issues but they are issues that I am able to accept as legitimate.  I find her best friend, the local Bridezilla, as another believable, if fairly tragic character.  I think the moral of this story is being overweight doesn't have to destroy your self confidence and being thin isn't always the answer.

Back Cover:

She made the bold proposition to get under his skin. And by Tomas Carlisle's reaction, Angelina Mori succeeded. Angie knew that tragedy had turned her friend hard and remote...like the Australian outback he loved. Still, she was scandalized that after confessing her secret fantasies about him, after offering to bear the Carlisle heir his father's will demanded in one year's time, he'd dared to suggest they make a baby...without sharing his bed. Well, she'd wanted Tomas to imagine a better way.

The way nature intended.

Because being so intimate with Tomas might not simply save his family's fortune...but the man himself.
 

Awesome!  They had a friendship when she was 14, him 20.  He taught her how to kiss when she asked.  Now at 24 she meets him again at a society wedding.  He thinks she thought he wasn't good enough for him.  He offers her a job.  They go away together and he tries to seduce her.  They end up in bed, he finds out she's a virgin, they have a post mortem on sex, he reveals he loves her, she reveals she loves him.  Yummy. 

Rating: 4/5 stars, a tad dated, but it's a wonderful story of discovering passion. 

Warm and fuzzy!  The couple are best friends, who love each other and are fighting their physical attraction to each other.  It's undeniable though!  They keep getting pulled physically, he thinks he can deny it and makes "rules" for them to follow to stay apart, she silently accepts the rules but thinks how silly he is to say "avoid kitchens" as if it will be the only place they are tempted to kiss.  It's a great romance and love story, with solid passion. 

Rating: 4/5 stars, this was almost a keeper for me, I was sad that they spent so many years as friends before FINALLY getting together!