Review: Sway by Katherine Savage

 Try and keep up as I try and explain my love-hate relationship with this book. It starts out easy enough to understand. Girl has top secret job working for an agency so secret that it doesn't have a name. Girl works for a guy that's so smart that he intimidates everyone around him while turning her blood to molten lava with unfulfilled desire. Girl and guy get caught in a gun fight and must hide out in an ultra luxurious villa under some new and secret protocal that girl can't figure out and then spend the weekend breaking down headboards and burning up the sheets. With me so far? Well good, because that's about as far as I got before the twists and turns got out of control.

Now, I will say that this book kept my attention. It was just weird and intriguing enough for me to read all 2 million pages (at least that's how long it seemed). I was all with the unexplainable attraction and passion that bordered on animalistic. I was even ok with finding out that Ronan possessed qualities that went beyond those of your average male. Introducing a wholly new species of being was a bit of a stretch but what the heck, in for a penny and all that. Where the author started losing me was in the incredibility of the interactions between Eve and Ronan. We get that he's smart but who has time to sit with a calulator and figure out how much time it takes him to go from point A to point B? Even if your senses are far superior to the average human, who calculates all encounters by seconds? Better yet, what woman sees a man, even a super human man, devolve into the most basic of primates and then just pets him on the head and takes him home to treat her like the most basic of prey until he comes back to his higher senses?

I get it that this is fantasy, and I'm all in for exploring the unknown, that's why I stuck with it to the end, I just think there were instances where the author was doing a bit too much. We could have cut out about 2 hours of this nine hour tale (timing is according to the counter on my e-reader) and the book would have still been ok. As I said in the beginning, I have a love-hate relationship with this book. I loved it enough to read the whole thing and actually put thought into understanding the crazy parts but I do wish that they would have cut out some of the extra and used other ways of describing his genious than counting all time in seconds.

Under the Surface is a sexy page turner with enough suspense and romance to keep you wanting more. Eve is a tough as nails business owner who won't bow down to anyone, her family and the neighborhood thugs included.

Matt Dorchester only has one job, and that is to protect Eve from herself and the people that have put a price on her head. There are lies and secrets between them that should make her off limits but in spite of all his best efforts, the pull between them is too hard to resist. There are definite fireworks between these two but with all of that heat, its impossible not to get burned.

Review: Can't Hold Back by Serena Bell

If it's even possible to tell a story that is all at once, sexy, heartbreaking, tragic and encouraging, then Serena Bell has hit the mark with this one. Nate and Alia have a chemistry that is hard to resist. In spite of their individual mistakes, the devastation of injuries brought on by war and the passage of time. Through it all, they find their way back to one another and keep the reader intrigued all the way to the happily ever after.